The children in
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have been practicing this song, it’s been fun (and emotional for the adults). Mrs Balmer & Mrs Walker have had a lovely year with these amazing children, we would like to thank everybody for your kind words and gifts we hope you have a lovely summer. 🌈
Reception have had a great start to our day at
@KnowsleySafari
I think the lions were the favourite so far. A quick stop for lunch then we’re off to watch the sea lion show
Reception had a great time at our end of year picnic today. It might not have been the perfect sunny day for it but that didn’t stop us having fun and dancing to the music 💃 What a lovely way to round off our year in Reception!
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World book day is in full swing in
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. The children have brought in so many lovely books to read and we have some amazing artists that have designed their very own story spoons. Amazing work reception 📚
YASBA
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🎸 our little Rockstars looked amazing and had a great time with
@RockKidzUK
today, they especially loved sending Mrs Power up for the dance-off 🕺
Wow, what an egg-cellent Easter Bonnet parade we have had this morning 🐰 we were so impressed with all the amazing Easter bonnets. Thank you to our special guest and judge
@MrsC_Russell
🐣 🍫
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What a day we‘ve had at
@KnowsleySafari
. We enjoyed the safari drive before lunch then watched the sea lion show before calling into the safari school to learn all about the rainforest. We even had time for a trip to the playground and a lovely lolly ice to cool us down.
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R2 had an amazing number day in aid of The NSPCC. We made domino biscuits, had a number hunt outside, made play dough birthday cakes, explored clocks and time. We also explored calculators although at first we were a bit confused and thought they were mobile phones!! 📚🕙
How many buttons fit on a gingerbread man?
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loved decorating their gingerbread men today. They used their super counting skills to carefully count out the eyes and buttons before seeing how many bites it took to eat him at snack time!
@llpartnership
#LiverpoolMathsParty
Reception have been treated to a lovely story by our visiting author
@dan__worsley
Everyone was sat so beautifully, listening intently as he took us on an amazing story adventure.
@MonksdownReads
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R2 had so much fun today recreating a dragon dance for Chinese New Year. We moved to the music and played instruments as we danced around the dragon.
@Musicmonksdown1
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the children have had a lovely first week getting to know each other and exploring their new classes. Mrs Balmer, Mrs Walker & Miss Leyden have loved getting to know you all we look forward to a fun filled week next week ☀️😊📚🎨 well done everyone what a fantastic start
Can you spot something lurking in the background?
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what a fantastic day we had a class full of super sensible children you done us and yourselves proud! We would like to say a huge thank you to all our amazing grown ups who helped us today. 🧡🖤
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loved the foot safari, the tiger was definitely the favourite! What an amazing pose, we was super excited when it jumped up so we could have a close up look. To finish off we had a play on the park.
We like to explore in our outdoor area, the children made a water slide for their animals, we needed water to help the animals slide down the children had a brilliant idea 💡 let’s squirt water down it.
#outdoorlearning
#outdoorplay
#eyfs
@MonksdownSchool
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enjoyed making pancakes and eating them, Mrs Balmer was amazing at tossing the pancakes, some children challenged her to see if she could toss it up to the ceiling. 🥞
Thank you to the parents who have taken time to attend our Phonics and Reading workshop this evening. It was a great session delivered by Miss Rawlings, which offered lots of advice and support in giving your child the best start in Phonics and Reading.
@MonksdownReads
#eyfs
EYFS have fun in every weather, today was wet
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tried their best putting their wetsuits and wellies on with a teeny bit of help
#teamwork
well done ⭐️ 🌧️ ☔️
The snow has arrived at just the right time for Reception as this week we are learning all about winter!
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have wrapped up warm and been out to explore the playground. We had snowman building, snow angels and even a bit of sledging! It’s been a fun morning ❄️
R1 hit rush hour this morning we had lots of run riding our bikes and going around the roundabout, some of our children amazed us riding the bike without stabilisers and 2 scooters at once WOW 🤩
Are you brave enough to walk across this bridge?
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faced their fears and successfully crossed it. It’s was a wibberley wobbly bridge with crocodiles underneath. (Eyfs imagination)
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. We are ready to start our autumn topic, we are looking forward to hearing how the children describe our discovery tray & to hear their stories about how they can relate the objects to themselves.
Amazing application of phonics in writing about the naughty bus. R3 took on the role of the naughty bus to write an apology letter to mum for making such a mess!
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listened carefully to instructions on how to plant our beans. First we used a trowel to help put the soil in the plant pot. Then pushed our bean into the soil and put more soil on top. Finally we watered our beans and put them in the Sun to help them grow 🫛
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enjoyed a lovely trip to
@KnowsleySafari
yesterday. We watched the amazing sea lion show and went on the wobbly bridge . Thank you to our lovely parents who came to help too.
Monksdown’s mini artists 👩🎨 👨🎨 this week R1 have been studying 2 artists Kandinsky linking in with our maths lesson & Yayoi Kusama
#artweek
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Receptions sports day 2023 ⚽️ well done to all our amazing children your all winners 🥇 we would like to say a huge thank you to all our parents who took part 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 👏
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are really enjoying learning all about Autumn. We’ve observed the changes we can see happening in the trees, printed using Autumn colours and explored lots of Autumn objects at out investigation area. What a busy week we are having! 🍂 🎃
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have been waiting to get Mrs Walker back for wetting them, so they got her when she least expected it! We love cooling down with some splashes of water 💦
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have made some marvellous leaf pictures, 2 children recreated their family using small medium and big leaves, one child was able to tell me that 4 leaves had 2 eyes on each so altogether that makes 8 fantastic maths!!
@Monksdownmaths2
@MonksdownMakes
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have kick started
#WorldBookDay2024
by sharing their favourite stories and fantastic story spoons with their friends 📖 they have loved hearing all about each story and why it’s their friends favourite.
@MonksdownReads
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What a busy day R3 have had as mathematicians! We have sorted buttons into sets, made Lego number towers and made numicon cities. We sang number songs and even made gingerbread men. We counted the body parts and added our favourite number of buttons. Well done R3!
When we heard little voices singing, the rest of the children in
#classR3
stopped in their tracks! How AMAZING it was to hear such positive singing about persevering. R3 talk about not giving up when things seem tricky. Mistakes fire up our brains and practise makes permanent!
As part of our learning about Summer this week,
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enjoyed a snack picnic outside in the sun and some sensory play with our tuff tray beach! All we need now is some lovely Summer weather 🤞🏼☀️
Cookie the elf really is cheeky, Mrs Balmer, Mrs Walker and Miss Leyden thought
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had thrown their coats all over the corridors, only for the children to point out it was Cookie.
As part of our PSHE Jigsaw work, Reception have been talking about their families and the roles people have at home before making frames for their special family photos 📸
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