28 November 2025
ATW Reception News – Aeroplanes and our world
This week in Reception, the learning has been based around the book ‘Emma Jane’s aeroplane’ by Katie Haworth.
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This week in Reception, the learning has been based around the book ‘Emma Jane’s aeroplane’ by Katie Haworth.
This week in Reception, we created our own version of Naughty Bus.
It has been another busy week in Reception. The children continued looking at the story “Naughty Bus” by Jan and Jerry Oke with their learning extended by creating a version of the book.
Today, Gold class had a special visit from an Oral Health practitioner from King’s College.
This week in Reception, we loved using The Naughty Bus in our learning.
The thematic learning this half term relates to ‘Our Amazing World’.
This week in Reception we used the book, “The Leaf Thief” to help our Reception children learn about autumn.
This week in Reception, the children did a great job settling back from the half term holiday.
This week in Reception, the children have been busy finishing their first topic, ‘Marvellous Me!’.
In Reception, we used the book Funnybones during literacy lessons to help develop children’s language and storytelling skills.
It is Black History Month, and the children have been learning about the importance of celebrating it.
This week we have used The Rainbow fish to teach our Reception classes about sharing and kindness.
In Reception this week, we have been reading ‘The Leaf Thief’ by Alice Hemming.
This week we used the story So Much by Trish Cooke to help us talk about our families.
In Reception this week, we have been reading ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister.