Early Years Foundation Stage

Malleable Play in Reception

We are having lots of fun developing our fine and gross motor skills using foam!

Friendships in Reception

We are having a lovely time with friends we know and also making new friends.

Rainy Days in Reception

We have had great fun exploring the weather this week.

Making Play Dough

We had great fun making play dough for our class.

Music in Reception

We really enjoyed singing songs and listening to the sounds of the ukulele in music today.

Our First Week in Reception

It’s been a great first week in Reception!

The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

Wow we have had a great time for our Big Teddy Bear Sleepover! First we started with a super singing assembly with Mrs Naylor. It was fun singing and dancing with our teddies. Then we made our teddies a bed to sleep in. We could not believe what they got up too when we went home. This morning we woke our teddies up with a lovely breakfast.

Time to say goodbye 👋

Thank you for joining us this morning for our celebrations 🎉

We are lucky to have been able to share this year with your children and hope you all come back to say hello.

We finished the day with a party lunch and party games this afternoon. ☺️😊

Spanish day 🇪🇸

We had lots of fun celebrating Spanish day, making Spanish flags and doing Spanish dancing 💃

Nursery Picnic

Thank you too everyone for joining us for our picnic and all of our delicious food 🥘

Sports Day!

We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!

Picnic Time 🧺

It was so lovely to see you all at our picnic and thank you for all the delicious food. 😋

keep those hearts topped up with love and we hope they help you all as you move onto new classes in September. ❤️

Eid Picnic

We were picnic ready last week as part of our Eid celebrations at school. We had a wonderful time and it was lovely to share so much delicious food from our parents.

Refugee Week

Last week we talked about what home means to us as part of Refugee Week.

Challenge time

We set the children a range of challenges to see if the children could  complete the challenge before the timer ends.

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

Thank you to Mrs Naylor for our wonderful Music Assembly today 🎶 🎤

The Pirates Next Door

Here is a link to this week’s story if you would like to share it at home.

Pirates Ahead!

We are having a great time with our new topic about pirates. We created a pirate ship outdoors and created our own treasure maps. Our focus story is The Pirates Next Door.

Forest School

We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.

Supporting our metal health by doing something that is fun and makes us laugh.

Banana Boat song.

Maths in Reception

We have been using 10 frames to help us count objects and also double numbers.

Eid Mubarak

We really enjoyed celebrating Eid at school. We made cards and talked about how it is celebrated.

100 Star Jumps to complete our daily challenge for Alder Hey.

It’s been a busy day in Nursery! Time to take break in the sunshine ☀️

We have been busy placing the correct number of dogs into the dog beds. 🐶 🐕

Forest School for Parents and Children

Please remember our Forest School Club begins today at 3.30 until 4pm for parents and children in Reception. All siblings welcome too. Many thanks, Miss McFarlane

Ice Cream Shop

We have been enjoying playing in our ice cream role play area. We have made lots of ice creams and chose what topping we would like. We have made lots of fun combinations.
 

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

Our new topic this half term is At the Seaside and this week we are looking at The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We have been busy designing lighthouses using collage materials and blocks.

P.E

Today in P.E we have been practising our balancing skills.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Today we had lots of fun making teddy bear bread , by spreading the chocolate spread and using bananas for the ears and raisins for the eyes.   .

What a joy to see these two retelling our story from last week. ?

Reception Parents and Children Visit to Calderstones Park

We had lots of fun with our families at Calderstones Park. We played ring games, had a picnic, fed the ducks, rolled down a hill, explored the playground and looked at different plants and flowers in the sensory gardens. Huge thanks to all families for coming along.

Were Going on a Bear Hunt

Today we have made some teddy bear bread using chocolate spread , bananas and raisins.

Calderstones Park with Reception Parents and Children

If you are coming to Calderstones Park this morning please wait in the office and we will leave at 9.15. Thanks so much, Miss McFarlane.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon for stay and learn.

we enjoyed sharing our activities and rhymes with you all and look forward to seeing you next time. ☺️

We have been busy talking about and sorting healthy and unhealthy foods. ????????

The very Hungry Caterpillar ?

We are munching our way threw one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries and five oranges ?

Odd and Even Numbers

In maths this week we are looking at which numbers up to 10 are odd and which are even.

It has been a busy after at stay and learn. Thank you for everyone who joined us. ☺️

Look at our slide!

We have worked hard to build this slide and have used our muscles to balance as we climb up and down it.

RLMc Farm Trip

RLMc had a great trip to Croxteth farm today. We saw lots of animals including goats from the Three Billy Goats story. We loved brushing the horse and holding the rabbit and Guinea pig. We had a great day outdoors.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar ?

Today we have enjoyed making fruit kebabs after listening to our new story.

Spider hunting in the sunshine ?️?

We have been learning about spiders this week and have been looking at similarities and differences.

We have been very busy retelling our story this afternoon. ?️

We have learnt all the Makaton signs for the animals in our story and then used them to retell the story.

It’s been a busy day using our fine motor skills to thread webs for the spiders and using our subitising skills to count spiders! ?️?️

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

We have been loving this week’s book! Look at all of our fantastic work!

Three Billy Goats Bridge

This week we have been looking at the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Outside we built a bridge to cross to the green grass. We made signs for the goats from the troll showing they can’t cross the bridge.

Enjoying the water with spiders and numicon. ?️

Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning. ?

Making bread

We have been very busy making bread just like the little red hen.

Listening to the harp in music today.

Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!

Nursery Stay and Learn

Today we welcomed parents to stay and learn, we had a lovely morning! This week we have been looking at the book “Aaaarggh Spider” lots of our activities had a spidery theme. ?️

Chef hats

We used our cutting skills to make chef hats.

Sorting in Reception Maths

This week we are developing our composition skills by sorting items by size, colour and shape. If you would like to have a go at this at home we would love to see this. Can you sort out some items by colour or size?

The Little Red Hen

We have started to share the story of The Little Red Hen and we began by making our own bread. Here is a link if you would like to share the story at home.

Teddy’s Bears Picnic

To celebrate the end of learning of Goldilocks and The Three Bears we hosted our own Teddy Bears Picnic. We had party food and danced with our teddies. We had a wonderful afternoon!

We have been busy baking cakes and making hats ready to celebrate Maisie’s Birthday ?

Teddy bear biscuits

Look at our fantastic teddy bear biscuits that we made today. They tasted so good.

Goldilocks and the three bears

Today we had fun re-enacting our story using props.

Making friends

Today we talked about what makes a good friend. We wrote about the different things we can do.

Hands Sign Language in Reception

We have started to learn sign language each week and are doing so well at learning greetings, colours and animals thanks to Hands.

Outdoors in Reception

This week we are having lots of fun outdoors in developing our imaginations and communication and language skills.

Composition of Numbers

In maths this week we are learning about how some numbers can be made up of two equal parts. We are looking at arrangements of numbers to spot and make equal and unequal parts.

Look at these two working at their laptops in the sunshine. ? ?

Today we have baked cakes to help celebrate Maisie’s Birthday ?

Maisie Mouse in our story is having a birthday! ? ? ?

P.E

We had lots of fun in P.E today. We had to jump and stop when directed while playing the frog game.

It’s been a busy and messy morning expanding our vocabulary using gloop. ?

Porridge Making

Today we have really enjoyed making porridge as part of our Goldilocks and the Three Bears learning.

We have been busy sharing how we celebrated Eid. ?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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We have started our Traditional Tales topic and our first book is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Here is a link to a song about the story to share at home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-when-goldilocks-went-to-the-house-of-the-bears/zbkrf4j

Dance in Reception

This term we have really enjoyed learning difference dances and moving to music and also creating our dance movements.

Easter in Reception

Fun in Reception

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Fun in Reception

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Thank you Mrs Ridley for a fun idea!

Measuring in Reception

We have had lots of fun practicing our counting skills by measuring each others using a selection of objects.

Happy Tuesday – outdoors

Today we have been enjoying our outdoor area. We have been using the blocks to create different buildings and even a strawberry ice cream. We have been working together with our friends to build castles in the sand.

Easter

We are having a great time playing in our Easter area. We have been creating Easter cards and decorating eggs. We decorated our Easter tree with our favourite Easter eggs.

On Monday Miss McFarlane painted our feet to create carrot footprints.

Planting ? Beans

In Reception we have enjoyed planting beans as part of our Jack and the Beanstalk/ Jasper’s Beanstalk learning. We talked about how to plant a bean and how to take care of the beans. We have also planted sunflowers and poppies in our mini sensory garden.

Measuring

The children independently measured how long the carpet was using our toy vehicles.

Reception Maths Stay and Learn

Reception parents and families, please remember to come along to our Maths Stay and Learn today which will begin at 2.15pm until 3pm. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you there. Many thanks for your support.

Building with 3D shapes

We have had lots of fun building with our large 3D shapes outside. We built a water slide with different shapes and found what combination made the cars and boats go faster.

Enormous Turnip Cookery

As part of World Book Day, we shared The Enormous Turnip story in class this week and made our own turnips to take home.

World ? Book ? Day in Reception

We’ve had a fantastic day today celebrating World Book Day!

Magnetic tiles

We have had lots of fun outside building and exploring the magnetic tiles. We built houses, campfires and castles.

Mark Making

This afternoon we have been using the pens and pencils to mark make under the table.

Supertato Sequencing

This week we have been working hard with our friends to put our Supertato story pictures into the correct order.

Imaginative Play

We have been having lots of fun outside using the boxes and our imaginations. We have been to the supermarket, space and more!

Supertato’s House

This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.

Favourite Character Pictogram

We have created a pictogram of our favourite character from Supertato. We counted to see how many children liked Evil Pea and how many more liked Supertato.

Throwing and Catching

We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills in a group. We worked together to see how quickly we can move the beanbag around the circle.

Evil Pea Gloop

On Monday we made Evil Pea gloop from our story Supertato. You can make this at home by mixing cornflower, water and green food colouring.

Asda

This morning we have had lots of fun playing in our Asda supermarket. We have been writing shopping lists and paying for our food with money.

Maths parental workshop

Thank you to our parents who came to our Reception maths parental workshop this week! We look at how to support your children with their shape knowledge at home.

Chinese New Year celebrations

To celebrate the new lunar year, we have been getting crafty in class making representations of dragons using a variety of resources. Look at our fabulous dragons! We also made our own lanterns after learning about the significance of the colour red.

Superheroes

We are enjoying Supertato this week and our new Superheroes topic!

Vegetable Soup

Last week we made vegetable soup with the items we bought from the shop. We used our cutting skills to chop up the vegetables.

RLMc Tesco Trip

This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.

Tesco trip

To continue learning about chefs, we’re going to become chefs and make our own soup! To prepare for this, we went to Tesco to buy the ingredients we need.

People Who Help Us – Chefs!

This week we have been learning about how chefs help us! Our lovely school chef came into class to answer our questions. We learnt about the special clothing chefs have to wear and the different equipment she uses to cook our tasty lunches!

Reception RE

Reception had a wonderful morning listening to the story of Noah and the Ark

People who help us: Chefs

This week we are learning all about chefs. This morning we had a visit from our school chef Miss Monica. We talked about her chefs outfit, the kitchen and menus. We then chose to create our own menus

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Winter ❄️ Cookery

We have enjoyed making cakes for winter time ❄️

Santa Dash 8.12.23

We had lots of fun in Reception on our Santa Dash!

EYFS Nativity

Thanks so much to all parents and families for coming to see our Nativity performance today.
Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.

Many Thanks.?

EYFS Nativity

Thanks so much to all parents who attended our Nativity performance today.

Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.

Many Thanks

We have had a busy few weeks in Nursery!

At the Post Office

We have really enjoyed our post office role play area and writing letters independently.

Imaginative Outdoor Play in Reception

Mark Making

We have had lots of fun mark making under the table on the large paper.

Hot air balloons

We are learning all about different types of transport. We have been making our own hot air balloons using different materials and decorating them.

RLMc visit Speke Hall

Yesterday RLMc had lots of fun visiting Speke Hall. We looked at the changes for Autumn and we even saw a sleeping giant! We visited the giants house, kitchen, music room and even his playground. It was lots of fun!

Today we have read I Like Trains!

We have printed trains with blocks and made marks to represent train track, trains and signals.

We had lots of Pudsey fun on Friday whilst raising money for charity.

RLMc Speke Hall

Parents and families just a reminder that Miss McFarlane’s class will be visiting Speke Hall tomorrow 20.11.23. The children can bring in wellington boots for the trip.
Many Thanks

Today has been all about the number 1. We made flapjack using 1 of each ingredient.

Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday from reception. We have been mark making outside and playing with our friends?

Comparison in Maths

This week we are comparing numbers and groups of objects saying which group has more than, fewer than or the same amount of objects. We have been building walls for Humpty Dumpty and saying which wall has more, fewer or the same amount of bricks.

Rhyming Week

This week we are learning how to rhyme and make rhyming strings in literacy.

Celebrating Diwali

We have been learning all about the festival of Diwali this week. We made Diwa decorations and cards for Diwali. We also found how Diwali is celebrated and how Diwali means Festival of Light. ?

Reception Nursery Rhyme Messy Afternoon 15.11.23 at 2.15pm

Please remember to join us at 2.15pm for a creative arts and crafts afternoon to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week.

Here are links to the focused nursery rhymes

Jack and Jill https://youtu.be/FYojUSFfuMg?si=SDUiqsd9OnNF5GM3

Hickory Dickory Dock https://youtu.be/yxoSyFkX_eA?si=MJGU2Ya8p0VhAVPG

The Wheels on the Bus https://youtu.be/xWyxe_QGq_g?si=_plPFxNqmR2Yn20d

Heads, Shoulder, Knees and Toes https://youtu.be/9S0_trHxcnk?si=FaZt14pGbqb7jctD

RAG trip to Speke Hall

Reception had a lovely afternoon visiting Speke Hall! We followed the Giant trail and spotted lots of the giant’s clothes high up in the trees! We tiptoed past the sleeping giant, making sure not to wake him! We then walked around the grounds, looking for signs of Autumn.

Speke Hall trip

Thank you to all our parents who joined us today to help us celebrate World Nursery Rhyme week. We had lots of fun sharing our rhymes and activities with you all.

We have been busy learning about Diwali the festival of light. We have moulded dough into Diya lamps. Made marks to create Rangoli patterns and wrote our names in our cards we have decorated.

What a fantastic first morning we had in Reception!

What a fantastic first morning we had in Reception! #smithdowneyfs

Dancing and freezing to the beat in music today…

We had lots of fun in music this morning dancing and freezing to the beat. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

It’s been a busy afternoon looking at big and small…

It’s been a busy afternoon looking at big and small. We worked hard sorting acorns. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths @MasterTheCurric

Today we made our own leaf man…

Today we have read The Leaf Man and made marks to represent the different places he passed in the wind. We then made our own leaf man. #smithdowneyfs

Using Autumn nature to create our faces

We have been busy using Autumn nature to create our faces. #smithdowneyfs

It’s been a busy morning learning dances to Disney classics

It’s been a busy morning learning dances to Disney classics. I just can’t wait to be king! ? ? our roar’s are amazing! #smithdowneyfs

looking at ourselves as babies and talking about our families

Today we have been looking at ourselves as babies and talking about our families. #smithdowneyfs

Represent our feelings with colours

We have been busy filling our jars with colours to sort and represent our feelings. #smithdowneyfs

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Music with Mrs Naylor

Music with Mrs Naylor’s scarfs today ???

Making rainbows in Nursery today

It has been a busy day sorting colours and making rainbows in Nursery today. #smithdowneyfs

We have been using the colour monsters from our new book

We have been using the colour monsters from our new book to match the monsters and investigate five frames. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths #smithdownreaders

Recognising our emotions…

Recognising our emotions and placing how we feel on the zones of regulation board. #smithdowneyfs

It’s a busy morning at the zoo today!

It’s a busy morning at the zoo today! Preparing food for the animals and learning new vocabulary from our story. #smithdowneyfs

The story box brought us lots of animals from the zoo…

The story box brought us lots of animals from the zoo. We enjoyed guessing which one was behind the door. We then went on an animal hunt and painted our favourite animal. #smithdowneyfs

Playing with the dinosaurs, balls and friends are what we enjoy the most. ?

Counting how many children are in school today and then drawing what we like doing in school. Playing with the dinosaurs, balls and friends are what we enjoy the most. ? #smithdowneyfs #attendancematters

Early years learning about different colours

Today we have been looking and learning about different colours. #smithdowneyfs

We have been busy today learning Incy Wincy rhyme…

We have been busy today learning Incy Wincy rhyme and using our motor skills to manipulate dough into spiders. ?️ #smithdowneyfs

Nursery – music ?

Movement and music ? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Fun with foam today

Fun with foam ✋? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Early years music

Movement with music @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Today has been all about Incy Windy Spider ?️

Today has been all about Incy Windy Spider ?️ we learnt the rhyme, used our hands to paint spiders and manipulated dough to create Incy Wincy. #smithdowneyfs

It’s been a busy afternoon in Nursery!

It’s been a busy afternoon in Nursery! We have been singing the wheels on the bus song and making marks to represent the different choruses of the rhyme. ? #smithdowneyfs

Making lots of new friends in Nursery…

It has been a busy day making lots of new friends in Nursery. ?#smithdowneyfs

This afternoon we have been singing the wheels on the bus…

This afternoon we have been singing the wheels on the bus and then made marks to represent the bus. #smithdowneyfs

Making our own mindfulness jar to help us breath

We have been practising breathing and relaxing exercises and then made our own mindfulness jar to help us breath. #smithdowneyfs

Dough disco

Strengthening our muscles with some dough disco. #smithdowneyfs

Our first full day in Nursery today

We have been so busy playing and learning on our first full day in Nursery today. I am so proud of our fantastic superstars. #smithdowneyfs

We have had lots of fun in the sun today welcoming our friends back for another busy year in Nursery

We have had lots of fun in the sun today welcoming our friends back for another busy year in Nursery. We look forward to making lots of new friends over the next few weeks. ?☀️ #smithdowneyfs