Last week we did lots of different activities related to the bear hunt. We took the children outside and acted out the different scenes. The children had a fantastic time and said they would love to go on a bear hunt again!!

Our topic this term is weather and houses. The children had great fun bringing in their umbrellas and testing them to see whether they were waterproof. Have a look at some of the photos below!

The Reception children have been very busy building a fire pit in our school grounds. We dragged large tree trunks, used mallets to knock sticks into the ground, rolled stones and weaved sticks! We have all had a fantastic time and we can't wait to start using the fire pit! Look at some of the photos below!

• Visiting Santa

• Christmas arts and crafts

• Our Christmas party..........

• Our fab nativity..........

We would just like to thank you for the effort you all put in to help us raise a

phenomenal amount of £783 with still more to come in. I'm sure everyone will agree it was a brilliant occasion for all the family to get together and have a toddle around the field. Thank you to everyone that came to the event and we are busy looking through the catalogues to see what lovely new toys we can buy! See some photos below of the toddle. Thank you again!!

We were very lucky last week to have a policeman come and visit us in school! It was a fantastic morning- we ask lots of questions, heard all about how police officers help us and we even got to try on some of his uniform!

The Reception children were very lucky to have some of the older children in the school come into our class to teach us different languages. We learnt hello in Czech, Arabic, Kurdish and Zulu. We found Czech the easiest to learn. We learnt Hello in Czech which is Ahoy and bye which is Chow. It's lovely to be able to say hello to our Czech friends in Reception! See below some of the photos from our fun day!

The children really enjoyed a visit from Bobby Bee today! Every week each child has to come to school every day to recieve a special present from Bobby Bee. Well done to the children who have been in every day!! Please try and bring your child to school every day so they can get a special present! See below some of the photos with Bobby Bee!!

We would like to welocme all the children in Reception and their parents to Brighton Avenue School. The children have all settled in really well and have been enjoying exploring the different areas in the classroom. Our topic this term is 'Super Me'. Please see the September newsletter to find out what we are going to be doing this term. Please feel free to come and speak to any of  our Reception team if you have any questions. Enjoy looking at some of the photos of what we have been doing in the first few weeks.

At the end of last half-term to were lucky enough to visit Hall Hill farm to end our theme of 'All creatures great and small'. We were ablt to see lots of animals, feed the lambs and even got to hold some chickks and rabbits. Thank you to everyone who came along to help and thank you to the staff at Hall Hill fab- we had a great day!

Our theme this half-term is 'All creatures great and small' and last week we were lucky enough to have a visit from Jay and all of his animal friends! Can you guess what came to visit us?

On Friday the children came dressed up either to go to a wedding or in red, white and blue. The children throughout the week watched different clips from royal weddings and had a party on Friday! The children had great fun!!

The Easter bunny made a suprise visit to Reception on Wednesday afternoon. The Easter bunny hid the chocolate eggs around the key stage two playground. the children hunted high and low to find them!!

On Friday afternoon we had a fab time gum boot dancing! It was super!

We were lucky enough to have someone come into school to teach us some African dancing. The children all put their wellies on and had lots of fun!!

Recently we have been to visit the key stage two playground. The children had the opportunity to practise climbing, balancing, crawling and sliding on different pieces of apparatus. The child throughly enjoyed it and had lots of fun!

Every week the children have to work really hard to be in school every day. On Friday's we have a special visitor who comes round to see who has had 100% attendance. The children recieve a special treat from Bobby bee for being in school every day. The children get very excited to see Bobby bee and give him lots of cuddles. Please help your child be in every day by bringing them to school, unless they are poorly.

Last week was Meg's 5th birthday (our class teddy), so after our fantastic assembly we celebrated in style! We wrote invitations to each other and then spent Friday afternoon signing, dancing and eating cake! It was great fun!

On Friday 18th March we all got dressed at Pirates for red nose day! Have a look at our pictures to see how fab we looked!

Last week we had some bad news! When we came to school Ellie and Meg had gone missing! We searched high and low and eventually decided to call someone who could help us, a police officer. The policeman came and we gave him details of what they both looked like and some posters to help with the search. Luckily, they were returned at the end of the week safe and sound- but look where they ended up!

We have been looking at people who help us around school. Please look at some of our fantastic writing!

The last week before the half term holidays was our last week looking at our topic of 'Fairytales' topic. We have really enjoyed it and so to finish it off we were lucky enought to have a theatre company come in and work with us! They were fantastic- please have a look at the photos.

We were lucky enough to have a theatre group come into school and perform 'Goldilocks and the three bears'. The children really enjoyed it especially when a glass of water was thrown over one of the bears because he was very hot!

On Tuesday afternoon we went to a vist to the new Library. The children throughly enjoyed looking at the books and learning how to scan the books out.

This week we are doing some work on 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. We were lucky enough to have a visit from an Engineer today who talked to us about what they did. The children loved dressing up as an engineer by wearing a helmet and a jacket,  We discussed the different materials that would make a secure bridge. The children were very excited to make a bridge safe enough for the goats to cross on. The children discussed which materials they were going to use to make the bridge and then had a go at making it. We had lots of fun!!!!

This week we have been learning all about Jack and the beanstalk. First of all we found a letter left for us by Jack. He left us lots of clues and when we followed them we found lots of things from the story and eventually found some magic beans. Please have a look at the pictures to see what we found!

We have alos been planting some beans to see what changes will happen to them! We can't wait to find out!

As part of our topic work about 'Ourselves' we decided to investigate our senses through making jelly. First of all we felt the jelly and it was very 'squishy'. We then had a smell, that was delicious- it smelled just like sweets. We made the jelly by adding hot water and then putting it in the fridge and after it was set we were able to taste it. It was very tasty!!

Reception class were invited to Gateshead Central library on the 18^th October 2010. At the library we were shown how to check out books, we read some stories as a group which we thought were super and then we were able to look at some of the story books ourselves and share these with our parent helpers. We were even able to borrow some of the fantastic story sacks to take back to school. We hope to return to the library next half term to get our own library cards and story book all of our own to take home!

Last term the Reception class went on a trip to Saltwell Park.  We had to put on our high visual jackets so that we would be safe when crossing the roads.

We had a long walk to the park and on the way we saw lots of different plants.

We visited South Dene Nurseries.  We saw lots and lots of different types of plants with flowers, fruit and vegetables growing on them.  We bought some plants to take care of.  Come along to our classroom and we can show you our plants.

After this we had to follow some clues from the Giant because Jack had been naughty and hidden all of the Giants golden coins.  We had fun following the different clues around saltwell park and finding all of the giants golden coins to give back to him.  He was very happy!

We were very hungry after our hunt, so we went and has our dinner in the lovely and warm cafe.

After dinner we went into the park and had lots of fun!  Can you spy Mrs hunt playing on the slide?

Spring Term 1

We have been learning all about Toys!  We have really enjoyed looking at and playing with different toys.  We were able to go on a trip to the Discovery Museum where we looked at old toys, water toys and took some funny photos!

This is a spinning top.  You have to press down the handle fast to make it move.

We used lots of different toys in the water to see how they move.

We had lots of fun but got very wet! We had to dry ourselves with a hand dryer.

Look at our funny outfits.

We learnt about teddy bears and read lots of different stories about bears.  We made teddy bear masks, went on a bear hunt and learnt a teddy bear song. 

We all brought in our own teddies from home and went for a teddy bears picnic yummy!

Superheroes!

We like to work in the Superhero area to save people from the Evil Mr Freeze!

Can you tell what our Special Superhero Powers are?

We like to work hard and enjoy learning new things.

 We made fairy cakes and explored the ingredients by using all of our senses.  We really enjoyed tasting them!

 We have voted for our favourite Superheroes and made a tally and pictogram to show our favourite Superheroes.  Come and look at the display outside of our classroom and you can see how hard we have been working.

Tomorrow, Thursday 18th, our Reception class will be visiting the Life centre. We will be taking part in a mini beast trail and exploring the dinosaur exhibition. We can't wait. Photos of our day will follow!!!

Friday 19th June is our class assembly at 9.00am in the school hall. Parents and carers we look forward to seeing you there!!