Secret activity

Children in reception were busy making secret surprises for special people. Hopefully you will all have received your Mother's Day cards this morning.

Proud writers.

Clayton has done some wonderful writing in class today about the Ugly Duckling.

Mrs Bracegirdle was very proud.

Eggs arrive in RRH!

The incubator and eggs have arrived in RRH this week. The children enjoyed looking and guessing what was in them. We are going to be looking closely for any changes during the rest of term, I wonder what might hatch out...

Mrs Bracegirdle put some bubble wrap around the eggs just incase they accidently get knocked. This way the eggs won't crack and break. 

Outdoor phonics!

Yesterday RRH did their phonics lesson outside! The children really enjoyed being in a different environment!

We were writing words with the "ee" sound in!

Colour festival

Here are some photographs from our colour celebration last Friday. Please note, RRH will be repeating the activity this Friday 28th March. Please provide some old clothes for your child to participate.

iPad Writing

RRH did some writing on the iPads last week. The children chose a picture from our walk and wrote a sentence about it...

Reading raffle

As Reception are now attending assemblies in school we are joining in the reading raffle. This means that everytime your child reads at home they will get a raffle ticket to go in the raffle box. Then, during the merit assembly on Friday a winner is chosen out of the box for each class. Your child then gets to choose a brand new book! Our new favourite saying in RRH is "You have to be in it to win it!"

What is in the egg.

In Reception we are learning about Spring. Spring is when baby animals are born. 

To learn more about new life we decided to look after and hatch some eggs.

First we got our incubator nice and warm ready for our eggs to arrive.

Our eggs arrived. They are all different colours and sizes.

We placed them carefully inside the incubator.  We are allowed to look at the eggs but only teachers are allowed to touch.

We have made lots of guesses at what are in the eggs. 

Some of us think there are chick's, dragons, dinosaurs or unicorns inside them. But we will have to wait for 21 days to find out. 

RKB's Trip to Stanley Park

We are ready to go and excited about all the signs of Spring we will see.

We found some Golden Daffodils, Primrose and Crocus flowers.

We found beautiful blossoms on the Cherry Blossom tree and new buds on the Pussy Willow.

The park keepers were cleaning the pond. They covered up the statues so they wouldn't get damaged.

We saw a squirrel collecting nuts on the grass, we had to stay very still so he wouldn't run away. 

We bought some pancakes to share with the swans and ducks. The swans were very gentle but the ducks were greedy. 

We had just enough time to have a photo taken with the lion before going back to school. 

RRH visit Stanley Park

After a week of glorious weather so far we were all looking forward to a sunny day at Stanley Park today. It wasn't as hot and sunny as we thought it was going to be, and a surprise visit from the fire brigade and a bird of prey made our 'Spring walk' even more exciting!

 First we got on the minibuses and fastened our seat belts.

When we got to the park we got our clipboards and walked in pairs to look for signs of Spring. The first thing we saw were some flowers growing in the flower beds. The children were drawing pictures of the things they could see, hear, smell, and touch.

We heard the clock tower chiming so the children drew the clock in the 'hear' section of their page.

We saw Daffodil shoots, buds and flowers. Then because the grass had just been cut we could smell it.










As we walked towards the lake at Stanley park, we weren't expecting to see what we saw! Tree surgeons were chopping down trees and using a machine to turn it into woodchip!




That wasn't the only exciting thing though - there were 3 fire engines and firemen! They were testing out their hoses in the lake!

After all that excitement we walked on to look for more signs of Spring. We saw some ducks on the lake.

Then we noticed some buds growing on the branches of the trees. The children drew pictures of the buds and used their sound fingers to sound out the words.

We headed into the sensory garden where we could smell and touch the different plants.

Then we met an unlikely creature - a bird of prey out for a fly around the park!

There was just enough time left to have a photograph taken.