16 May 2025
ATW Reception News – Beanstalks, plans and growing
This week in Reception, the children have been learning about plants and how things grow.
For those parents who will be applying for a reception place for their child for September 2026 we have arranged a series of visits so that they can look around the schools with senior staff.
If you wish to view a school please see here for the available dates. Obviously we have to limit numbers so only parents/carers who have booked will be able to attend.
This week in Reception, the children have been learning about plants and how things grow.
This week in Reception, we have been using the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ to inspire us to create our own stories.
This week in the Reception, we have been reading the book, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’.
What a fantastic first week back after the Easter holidays! The children came back refreshed and ready to learn.
To finish our topic of ‘To The Rescue!’, we looked at the story of ‘Croc goes to the Dentist’.
This week we looked at the book, ‘Clean Up!’. In it we saw that our oceans are not as clean as we thought they were and that the rubbish they are being filled with is harming the animals who live in them.
A few weeks ago we had a visit planned from the Purley firefighters and we were excited in anticipation of their arrival.
This week, in Reception, the children learned all about medical professionals.
As part of our topic ‘To the Rescue!’, we have continued looking at the book ‘Supertato’.
It has been a busy week in Reception! We continued with the topic, ‘To The Rescue!’
Today, Reception had a visit from the Sanderstead Safer Neighbourhoods division of the Metropolitan Police Force.
This week in Reception, we were burgled! On Monday, the children returned from lunch to find the classroom in disarray.
Our Nursery started the week by sharing experiences and moments from our half term.
In Reception this week, we read the book, ‘Peepo’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
For the past two weeks, Nursery has covered the traditional tale; ‘Goldilocks and The Three Bears’.