Murphy Class Reception

Welcome to Murphy Class!

Please check our class page regularly for photos and updates on your child's learning!

Our outdoor classroom is as important as our indoor classroom.

We spend lots of time outside, please ensure that through the Autumn and Winter months, your child brings a coat to school each day.

 

               

Here are our regular times 

                                      Drop off at 8.45am at Reception/KS1 entrance.                                           .

     Pick up at 3.15pm from the Playground.

 

Please wait behind the yellow line to make it easier for us to see you and wait for us to dismiss your child. Please be patient so we can ensure each child is dismissed safely.

 

If you wish to speak to us please feel free to do so once all of the children have been dismissed.

 

Our Class Rules

We can show we are ready for good learning by looking and listening.

We are all friends in Reception and are kind to everybody.

We are learning to use our kind hands and feet.

We share and take turns.

We always walk in the classroom.

We all tidy up and look after our resources.

How we learn in Reception.

We always plan from our children's Next Steps because you are all unique and learn in different ways. We love to link our learning through the wonderful and numerous books we read in class.

 

We are all looking forward to our Easter Bonnet Parade on Friday afternoon. Reception have made some wonderful Easter Bonnets they all look amazing.

We were all so excited that the Easter Bunny came to visit us in the Garden. The Easter Bunny hid lots of yummy eggs for us to find and enjoy.

Reception all wore Odd Socks today to celebrate Down Syndrome Day. Evie brought us all some socks so we could share with our friends. We swopped a sock with our friends so we had odd socks to wear. Reception had great fun designing our own socks that we would like to wear.

We had fun in Golden time today doing different puzzles.

We have had a lovely start to the Spring Term. We have been reading The Hungry Caterpillar story and learning about the life cycle of the caterpillar to a butterfly. It has been very exciting. We have also been learning about healthy and unhealthy foods and how to look after our teeth. 

We all enjoyed coming to school for World Book Day in our pyjamas and slippers. We brought in our favourite book and teddy and listened to lots of our friends stories. We enjoyed reading stories together in the garden with the Nursery children 

We had a lovely story from Miss Sepet to finish our lovely reading day. 

Happy Christmas to you all, love from the EYFS staff

We have been super busy today making Peppermint creams for our cake sale on Friday. We all hope you enjoy them.

We have all been so bisy making lots of gifts for our families. We have all enjoyed doing lots of fun activities and learning about the story of Christmas. Happy Christmas everyone.

On Friday we had an email from Father Christmas. He asked if we could help him, because his reindeer called Rudolph was poorly and please can we help to make him better. So we all worked together to share our ideas what we need! We all made a bed and left out treats for Rudolph to make him better.

On Wednesday we all enjoyed our lovely Christmas Dinner wearing our crowns we made and our lovely Christmas Jumpers.

We all visited St Mary's Church and we met Father Dane. He blessed us all and Mrs McGarrigle gave us a Bible and then we had some fruit squash with Father Dane. We all had a great time. Thank you Father Dane for having us.

This week we have enjoyed reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We all acted out the story and made some porridge for Goldilocks and then we tried our porridge. Some of us liked our porridge but some of us didn't like it but that's ok. We have also been practicing our writing and writing our own stories. It has been great fun.

We had a great time celebrating Children in Need the children came to school wearing their finest spots. We even had a visit from Pudsey Bear himself. We did lots of art work using different materials and tools and equipment.

We made poppies to show respect for the fallen soldiers and animals that fought for us. We took part in the 2 minute silence at 11am on Monday 11th November 2024.

We used different materials to make our Firework pictures. We all discussed the how to be safe around fireworks and the importance of staying with our grownups when watching the fireworks.

See the video resource page for our amazing singing of the Big Red Combine Harvester and our great adventure of Going on a Bear Hunt.

Fun in the leaves

We had lots of fun on Wear it Pink day.

We looked at the letter C in our Phonics this week

We painted portraits of ourselves! Don't we look amazing!

We have used different shapes to make bears to retell our story We're Going On A Bear Hunt.

It has been lots of fun retelling our story in different ways, today we used a story map and added pictures as we told our story.

We have had a lovely time settling in to our new Reception Class and have had lots of fun exploring the classrooms and the garden.

We had a great time visiting Africa last year July 2024.

We all went to Africa and had a great time. We had fun in the waiting lounge before going through passport control and boarding our flight.

Ready for take off, Next stop Africa

We made it to Africa so much to do, so many animals to find. What a great day we have had.

Today was the first day of our challenge week. We had lots of fun taking part in our challenges together.