Screen time for children in reception

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The World Health Organization (WHO) have reported that children under five should spend less time sitting looking at screens, and more time being physically active to grow up healthy. Children develop very quickly in early childhood, so it’s important they’re encouraged to live…

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Understanding the World - Celebrating Easter and visiting our local church.

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This week Reception class have been learning all about why Easter is important to Christians. We discussed the Easter story and visited Father Antony at our local Church - St John the Evangelist. He showed us around and we discovered why the church was so special to people in our local…

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Chester Duck Race

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Signs of Spring

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Reception class explored the natural world around them to find signs of the season Spring. 

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Signs of spring

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Reception class explored the natural world around them to find signs of the season Spring. 

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Down Syndrome Awareness

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We have had a informative and interactive assembly from Steve at Down Syndrome Cheshire this morning.  He explained all about World Down Syndrome Day and how we can support it. 

 

World Down Syndrome Day is 21st March each year.

 

To raise awareness, children are invited to come to…

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Science in Reception

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Reception class have been reading Little Red Riding hood and wanted to help Little Red Riding hood get to Granny's house quicker that the Big Bad Wolf so they decided to make a plane for her. We investigated 2 different types of paper aeroplane, a thin one and a fat one and we predicted which…

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EYFS ShREC strategy

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In EYFS we use the ShREC strategy to ensure high quality interactions with our younger children. It includes 4 stages to initially Share attention; Respond to the child; Expand into dialogue; working towards Conversation. This targeted approach is helping staff to gain understanding as to how to…

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Reception Maths

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EYFS Pupil voice

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EYFS Learning areas

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EYFS learning areas

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