Early Years Foundation Stage

Cooooooool down 🧊

Reception enjoyed some freezing cold ice pops in the sun. What a perfect cool down on a Friday afternoon!! ☀️

More water fight fun 🤩

We have had the happiest afternoon at our water fight 😊😊

The Big Teddy Bear Breakfast 🐻🥞

Oh the children could have never guessed what their Teddy’s got up to once the lights went out… what mischievous Teddy’s🐻

The children got to see the Teddy’s journey throughout our school & then enjoyed a lovely breakfast in the garden!

Lots of giggles and full bellies in Reception today! 🌟

Teddy Bear Sleepover 🐻 💤

What a fantastic afternoon we have all had! We have set the teddy’s off to sleep with a lovely lullaby… let’s see what they get up to tomorrow! 🐻

Thank you to all of the families who attended & got creative with the children – I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.

Roll on the Teddy Bear Breakfast 🥞 🐻

Thank you to everyone for joining us for our wonderful music assemblies with Mrs Naylor. 🎶

We had so much fun splashing everyone at the water fight! The most fun was splashing the teachers!

The big Teddy bear sleep over

Water fight ready!!

Shark-infested biscuits 🦈

The children had a busy afternoon and had worked up an appetite for some shark-infested biscuits, after a busy morning for sports day! 🦈🌟

Reception Sports Day 2025🏆🎖

Thank you to all of the families who came out to cheer the children on – they had a blast! 🏆

The children worked so hard as part of a team to complete all of the races and we are so proud of all of them for showing great sportsmanship!

Well done to everyone 🌟

Butterfly, fly away 🦋

The butterflies have been released today in Reception! 🦋

Making 🔟

The children have been exploring different ways to make 🔟

They used numicon, cubes and counters to show different ways to make the number 10!

Active Adding🎲

The children were using their adding skills today to add the numbers from the dice to work out how many jumping jacks they needed to do. ⭐️

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

The children had lots of fun choosing what to send the Lighthouse Keeper for lunch. They choose what food and sent it down in a basket – all while trying to avoid the seagulls. We talked about what healthy choices we could make and choose his lunch very carefully. Oooooh! 🧺 🏝

Thank you Mrs Carpenter for organising our Beatlemania day, we had so much fun singing along 🎤

BeatleMania 🎶

We loved taking part in BeatleMania today!

”We all lived in a yellow submarine!” 🎶

Ice Cream Shop

We are having a great time developing our imaginative role play skills outside at the ice cream shop! We also dressed Billy Bear for the summer and thought about what kinds of clothes and items he might need.

Forest School

We have had a lovely time in Forest School club with some of our Reception children and parents and families. We have used natural materials to make journey sticks, played listening games and created dens. Tomorrow-Thursday 26th June is our last session where we will be having a campfire. All welcome and hope to see lots of you tomorrow from 3.30-4pm. Many thanks.

The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

On Wednesday 9th July at 2.15pm we are inviting all parents and families to our Big Teddy Sleepover! We invite all of our children to bring in a bear 🐻 and they will make a bed using a selection of boxes and materials. We be sharing songs and putting our teddies into their beds ready to spend the night at school! We hope to see as many of you as possible there. Many thanks.

Singing in Music

We are practicing songs for our big teddy bear sleepover coming up on Wednesday 9th July at 2.15pm! All parents and families welcome.

Making 10

The children were exploring different ways to make 10 using numicon.

We have been expanding our vocabulary whilst enjoying the gloop.

We have been busy learning about cubes and cuboids. We used these 3d shapes to build bridges.

We have been looking at the text Only One You and sharing where we have come from and where we are now. We have made fish to represent the fish in the story.

Ahoy!! 🏴‍☠️

Reception have been super crafty over the last few weeks reading all about Pirates – they have been making paintings of pirate ships, telescopes, pirate flags and even treasure maps! 🏴‍☠️

Our 150 years school celebration picnic

This afternoon we had a fantastic time celebrating and eating delicious food with all of our families at school.

150 Year Celebration

What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.

Happy Father’s Day🌟

Thank you all for coming to our Father’s / Special Person assembly 🌟 the children worked so hard practicing both songs and making their lovely art work. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Smithdown P.S 150 Year Celebrations

In Reception we have been learning all about our school and it’s 150th birthday 🥳

We looked at old pictures of the children from our school – they were all in black and white.

We made a picture of Smithdown P.S to celebrate and printed with sponges using the school colours 🎨

Reception @ The World Museum

Reception had a fantastic day at the museum on Tuesday. We had a wonderful time seeing all of the amazing things – our favourite was the aquarium. The children even spotted Nemo and Dory!

Double facts!

The children have been working hard during their morning work to recall double facts. They wrote the number sentence to match – using the adding and equal sign. Great job Reception 👍🏻

World Museum

We had a wonderful time at the museum!

Forest School

Reception families everybody is welcome to our Forest School club today from 3.30-4pm.
Many thanks!

Celebrate Eid !

Today the children have enjoyed coming to school in their own clothes to celebrate Eid.

Weekly Challenge

In Reception the have been working extremely hard every week with a new weekly challenge – which they must complete independently!

The children were given a challenge this week to help out The Jolly-Roger’s family to see what items of treasure would float and which would sink. They experimented with different objects – coins, rocks, kids and rubber bands.

Smithdown’s 150 Years Celebration

Making school cake

Today we enjoyed measuring the ingredients together and making school cake to celebrate our schools 150th birthday.🎁 🎈 🎉

150 Years Celebrations

In Reception we have talked about how our school building is 150 years old. We’ve looked at old photographs of the building and have drawn pictures of our school using photographs.

Collage

We have been looking at the features of our school building and creating a collage using various shapes.

Treasure hunt !

We have been hunting for key features of our school building that is now 150 years old.

Eid

This week we are having a great time making Eid cards and learning about Eid celebrations.

Pirates Ahoy!

This week we have really enjoyed learning all about pirates! We have made hats, eye patches, designed ships and created our own treasure maps.

Doubling Numbers

In maths this week we are doubling numbers up to 10.

Music

This week we have really enjoyed using the claves in music and singing ‘Yellow Submarine’ using actions. IMG_2093

We have been busy baking school cake to celebrate our schools 150 year old birthday.

Recreating maypole dancing from 1936.

Hands Signing

This week we have been learning nursery rhymes and having great fun!

Reception Family Visit to Calderstones Park- Tuesday Afternoon Visit

Huge thanks to all parents who were able to come along to the park.

We have been on a scavenger hunt looking at the historical features of our School.

We have started our School’s 150 year celebration by creating a collage of our beautiful building.

Labelling a pirate

Today we looked at different features of a pirate and labelled them.

Water play

Weekly Challenge!

This week in reception the boys and Girls have been very hard at work making a map for Little Red Riding Hood. They made their very own map to help Little Red to stay away from the Big Bad Wolf 🐺 They have made these maps all by themselves… well done boys and girls for working independently!

Reception Family Visit to Calderstones Park- Tuesday Morning Visit

Huge thanks to all parents who were able to come along with their child to the park.

Reception Family Visit to Calderstones Park- Monday Afternoon Visit

Huge thanks to all parents who were able to come along with their child to the park.

Reception Family Visit to Calderstones Park- Monday Morning Visit

Huge thanks to all parents who could make coming along to the park this week with their child.

Instruments in Reception

We have been using the claves to make different sounds.

Music Time

Using different instruments in music today.

Just skating to the park! 🤣😊

We have been busy sticking our designs onto our bunting for our 150 year celebrations.

It was lovely to see so many of you in Nursery today sharing activities with your children. 😊

The Little Red Hen

Here is a link to The Little Red Hen story if you would like to share it at home.

https://pubhtml5.com/hmeo/tnap/Little_Red_Hen_%28Ladybird_Read_It_Yourself%29/

Odd and Even Numbers

Here is a game to play at home to help your child understand odd and even numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvwq2v4

PE in Reception

Over the last few weeks, we have been practicing our skipping skills, trying to throw and catch and even having a go at tennis! We have also been practicing our listening skills and following instructions in PE when playing games.

The Little Red Hen

This week we have been sharing the story of The Little Red Hen. We have made bread just like the hen and have written instructions for making bread.

Odd and Even in Reception Maths

This week we have been practicing odd and even numbers up to 10 in maths.

Challenge – Make a pigs house

For last weeks challenge the children had to make a house out of straw, sticks or bricks. The children had to do this independently.

Look at their wonderful work. 😃 🌟

Tasty bread!

Yesterday we made bread just like The little red hen. Today we ate it with butter and jam. It was so tasty!

Hand Signing

We are practicing signs for food names this week in Reception during our Hands time.

We have been working together in the Doctors Surgery and learning lots of new words today. 👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️

We have been following AB patterns using the ladybird and fine prize cow from our storybook.

Subtraction Number Bonds to 5 in Reception

This week we have been practicing learning subtraction facts of number bonds to 5.

VE Day

Reception made flags today to mark VE Day.

PE playing a game of freeze

PE using our senses

In PE today we looked at using our senses to move around. We used our ears to hear the birds ,our noses to smell the dinner, our eyes to see our friends and feeling mud in our toes

The Three Little Pigs

This week we are sharing the story of The Three Little Pigs and we have had lots of fun making houses for the pigs using a selection of materials.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

We ha We had lots of fun sharing the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We created a bridge, made billy goat collages, practiced our number bonds to 5 using goat counters and made cheese and cress crackers.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Our current topic is Traditional Tales and we shared the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We wrote sorry letters

Croxteth Farm

We had a wonderful time at the farm!

Croxteth Farm

We had a wonderful time at the farm!

We have been busy designing our own map to save the fine prize cow! Practicing our cutting skills and working out the route. 🐄 🐞

Strengthening our muscles using tweezers with the beans from the Naughty Bus story.

It was so funny to find the Naughty Bus in my lunchbox trying to eat my lunch. 🤣

We have been working together taking turns to build tall buildings like the ones in our story Naughty Bus.

Our trip to Croxteth farm

We had the best day ever visiting Croxteth farm. In the morning we saw lots of farm animals and in the afternoon we had a play in the play area.

We have been learning some map skills and took a bus ride around our local streets. We were so excited to share where we lived and the route to our School.

We have been developing our fine motor skills and our vocabulary whilst exploring the brand the Naughty Bus drove through!

We opened a present and found the Naughty Bus! We have been busy making tall buildings and creating our own bus.

Celebrating Earth Day! We have found litter to recycle and made posters to take home.

We have been busy creating trains. 🚂

Earth Day in Reception

Today we celebrated Earth Day in Reception by using sun paper to make natural pictures. We also talked about ways to save and conserve energy and used a parachute to use the power of the wind to have lots of fun outdoors.

Hands Signing

We have started to learn sign language in Reception. Today we have been learning signs for colours.

Lots of Easter fun today 🐣

Easter egg hunt

Egg and spoon race

Our trip to Central Library

Central Library Visit

On Tuesday we visited Central Library in our city centre with some of our families and we had a great time sharing books, having a look around the children section of the library and even going onto the roof to see the skyline of  Liverpool.

Happy Eid!

The children had a wonderful time celebrating Eid at school. We had a dance party to celebrate!

It has been a busy day celebrating Eid 🥳 we have drawn henna hands, made party hats, played games and enjoyed dancing together.

Happy Eid!

Today we continued with the Eid celebrations. The children looked amazing in their special Eid clothes and had some fun doing some lovely Eid activities! We finished off the day with a dance party to celebrate Eid 🎉

Central Library

Reception families and parents if you are joining us at Central Library this week, please meet us at 9.45 at the main entrance of Central Library on William Brown Street.
Miss McFarlane’s class will go to the library tomorrow Tuesday 1st April and Miss McNally’s class will visit on Thursday 3rd April. Below is a map link for our school to the library.
The postcode for the library is L3 8EW.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Smithdown+Primary+School,+Chatsworth+Drive,+Liverpool+L7+6LJ/Central+Library,+William+Brown+St,+Liverpool+L3+8EW/@53.4053523,-2.9861237,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487b21022e52ea2d:0x4c6d8550a6cc4176!2m2!1d-2.9511929!2d53.3992227!1m5!1m1!1s0x487b213b05a3aa69:0x5f4ca882f45b6b5d!2m2!1d-2.9802884!2d53.4098392!3e0?hl=en-gb&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Many thanks.

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to all of our families and children.

Carrot Footprints

We have had fun making carrot footprints today as part of spring and Easter.

PE in Reception

We had lots of fun playing games using hoops in Reception.

We enjoyed making cakes for our mums and special people on Friday.

Mother’s Day Story Time

Thank you very much to all parents who cam along to our Mother’s Day story time on Friday.

Bronze Dojo awards

We got 100 dojo points this week. A big well done

Star of the week

Our star of the week certificates go to two fantastic hard workers. Well done! ⭐️ 🌟 💫

We have been looking at signs of spring and have been learning the different parts of the daffodils.

Fantastic work today

This week we have been looking at rhyming strings in literacy and subtraction in maths.

Happy Mother’s Day

Wishing you all a very happy Mother’s Day!  A big thank you to everyone that attended our special Mother’s Day story time this morning. We hope you enjoyed it. 🌸 🌺 💗

Peg Board Play

We are enjoying playing with our new peg board games in Reception.

Making play dough frogs

Red Nose Day

Painting sunflowers

We enjoyed painting sunflowers as we watched our own sunflower seeds begin to grow. We shared a story called Camille and the Sunflowers and looked at a famous sunflower painting by Vincent Van Gogh to help us with our painting.

Slimy Rhymes!

We enjoyed playing a rhyming game this week!

Rhyming in Reception

In Reception literacy this week we are practicing continuing a rhyming string and enjoying lots of rhymes. We are sharing a story called Oi Frog and below is a link if you’d like to share the story at home.

Subtraction in Reception

This week in Reception maths we are practicing subtracting and writing numbers and subtraction number sentences.
Below are some links to some subtraction number songs to share at home.

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/bottleTakeAway/index.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zjjbnrd

Eid and Mother’s Day Card Making

We are busy in Reception making Eid cards and Mother’s Day cards.

Here we are finding the baby spring animals to match to their mothers. We learnt new animal names and discussed the animal features. 🐥 🐴 🐷 🐑 🐄

Red Nose Day

We sequenced our story and had lots of fun joining in with the repeated refrain. 📖 🐷 🐷 🐷 🐺

Ready to launch our shape rocket 🚀 5 4 3 2 1 Blast off!

Railway safety

We watched an assembly about how to stay safe at the train station.

Violin in Music

We listened to the lovely sounds of the violin and sang along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This morning we voted as to whether we would climb the beanstalk or not! The children standing said they would climb and the children sitting down said that they would not!

Claves in Reception

We have had a great time playing the claves in music. We had to keep to a beat and then stop!

Jack and the Beanstalk

This week we are learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. Below is a link to the story if you would like to share it at home.

Painting and Planting Beanstalks

This week we are learning about Jack and the Beanstalk as part of our topic of Growth. We have painted a beanstalk and have planted beans and peas. We will be watering them to watch them grow.

Addition in Reception

This week we are practicing adding 1 using the part whole model.

Creating a beanstalk

We created a beanstalk using green ribbon and paper. We imagined it was leading up to the giant’s castle.

I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down! 🐷 🐷 🐷 🐺 We have been busy designing and building houses for the three little pigs today.

Run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread man.

Decorating sunflower biscuits

We had fun decorating sunflower biscuits this afternoon.

Silly hair day

Decorating sunflower biscuits

Science week

To celebrate science week, reception read The Gingerbread Man and talked about what might happen if the gingerbread man fell into the water. We decided to see what would happen if we dunked biscuits into milk, oil and water.

Crazy Hair day! What wonderful creative hairstyles we have in Nursery. Thank you for the chocolate donations so far. We will be wearing home clothes next week and taking chocolate donations for our Bingo night.

Mark making in different ways to support our story The Gingerbread Man. 📖

PE. Using ropes to balance

PE. Balancing skills using beanbags

PE. Balancing skills

Using our balancing skills in PE today.

Planting Outdoors

This week we have planted sunflower seeds, made scented play dough using lavender, rosemary and mint and planted vegetables, daffodils and herbs. We will be watching the changes to the seeds as they grow.

Biscuit Experiment

As part of Science Week we did an experiment about which biscuit is the best for dipping! We have used a variety of biscuits to dip into milk, water and oil. We looked to see which liquid was the best to use. Thank you Mrs Kelly for giving us great ideas for a fun afternoon!

Science Week

This week we are celebrating Science Week at school. Reception are learning about a scientist called Sarah Boone who helped to create the modern day ironing board.

The Gingerbread Man

Today we have made our very own Gingerbread Man ……. Run run as fast as you can 🏃

Taking care of our sunflower seeds

We will water our seeds everyday and watch them grow into beautiful sunflowers.

Planting sunflower seeds

After carefully listening to the instructions, we planted our sunflower seeds.

Errol’s Garden

This week our focused story in literacy is Errol’s Garden. If you would like to share it at home, here is a link to the book.

Planting Sunflower Seeds

We have had a great time beginning our topic of Growth by planting sunflower seeds. We will observe the changes to the seeds over the next few weeks. We are also celebrating Science Week at school this week.

We are balancing in different ways to move around the obstacle course.

Pancake Day

We had a great time making pancakes last Tuesday!

World Book Day in Reception

We enjoyed World Book Day! We found lots of Dalmatian dogs and hid from Cruella de Vil!

World book day

What a fantastic day we had dressed up as our favourite book characters.

Stars of the week

We are so proud of our super stars 🌟Well done!

World Book Day

We loved celebrating World Book Day!

World book day! 📕 📖

World book day

Super fingers

We used our fine motor skills to rescue the princess and Spider-Man.

Sharing a book together. 📕 📖

It’s been a busy day celebrating World Book Day in Nursery. 🐶 📖

Pancake picnic

We chose different toppings for our pancakes and had a picnic!

Pancake day

We used flour, eggs and milk to make our pancakes.

Today we have been reading Mr Wolf’s Pancakes. We have drawn Mr Wolf and made pancakes just like his recipe! 🥞

Super sentences

What a fantastic start to the day! Look at our super sentences.

We have been busy making teddy bear bread. 🐻 it was very tasty! 😋

Evil pea fruit kebabs

We made Evil Pea inspired fruit kebabs.

Star of the week

Well done to this weeks super stars. You are both amazing 🤩

Superheroes at Work

We had lots of being superheroes and creating dens outdoors for the superheroes to live in.

Name writing

Getting creative with Supertato

We made some fantastic Supertato pictures using real potatoes to print with.

Porridge making !

Today we have had lots of fun making our very own porridge after reading our new book Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 🐻

International Mother Language Day

In Reception we have celebrated International Mother Language Day by counting in other languages and learning the names of our snacks in different languages.

Making 6 and 7 in Maths

This week we are counting up to 7 objects and making 6 and 7 using other numbers including 5.

Supertato

This week we are learning all about Supertato the supermarket hero! Thanks to all parents who have helped their child to make their own Supertato at home. We have also had fun making them at school and below is a link to this week’s story if you’d like to share it at home.

Superheroes

Our new topic is Superheroes! How many superheroes can you spot in Reception?!

Valentine’s Day Story Time

Huge thanks to all parents for joining their children in celebrating Valentine’s Day. The children had a lovely week creating cards, hats and hearts in cookery.

Teddy bear bread !

Today we have been making teddy bear bread using chocolate spread, bananas and raisins after reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Superheroes

We dressed up as superheroes today.

Valentine’s week

Valentine’s Day story time

A big thank you to everybody who attended our Valentine’s Day story time. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. ♥️😍

Happy Valentines Day

Thank you for joining us in Nursery this afternoon, it is always lovely to have you in class.

Thank you so much for coming to play with us this afternoon and helping us understand the Zones of Regulation.

2-D Shape in Reception Maths

This week we have practiced learning about 2-D shapes. We talked about shape names and what they look like, created police car pictures using 2-D shapes, found real  2-D shapes outside and problem solved by making shapes using string.

People Who Help Us-The Police

We have been learning all about the police and what they do. We have dressed up as the police, cut out police cars and talked about how important they are.

What the Ladybird Heard

This week as part of our People Who Help Us topic, we have been learning about the jobs of the police. We have also shared and re-enacted the story of What the Ladybird 🐞 Heard as part of our learning. Below is a link to share the story at home.

Reception Parent Maths Workshop

Our last parents maths workshop was all about measures and the children took part in a range of activities with their mums. Huge thanks to all parents for coming along each week and hope to see you for future workshops.

Cosmo the Therapy Dog

Reception had a great time meeting Cosmo and learning all about what he likes.

Working out outside! My muscles are so strong 💪

Question time

We asked the policeman questions about catching Lanky Len.

PE moving like different forms of transport

We had to move around the hall like a car, a train or an airplane.

Shape printing

Cosmo the therapy dog

We had a very special visitor today. His name was Cosmo. We loved getting to know him.

Slow and fast music

Using our body to to move fast and slow to the music.

What the ladybird heard

This weeks story is called What the ladybird heard. We dressed up as police officers and looked for ladybirds.

Making pizza

We had such a good time on Friday making pizza.

It’s been a busy week celebrating Lunar New Year. 🐉 🐍

Stars of the week

A big well done to our stars of the week. You have been great 👍🏻 ⭐️

Dragon Dancing

The children have been inspired by the dragon dancing workshop they attended yesterday. They got creative and made their very own dragon costume – they took turns being at the front of the dragon and dancing to the music. 🧧🐲🐉

Lunar New Year 🧧 Story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-chinesenewyearperformance

Here is a link to the story about Lunar New Year if you would like to share this at home.

Lunar New Year Dance

The children enjoyed the dragon workshop today and had lots of fun doing a lion dance.

Tesco Shopping Trip

We had great fun shopping for pizza ingredients in Tesco today!

Our trip to Tesco

We had a great time shopping for pizza ingredients. Tomorrow we will make pizza!!

Reception celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year 2025

Reception learned about the Chinese Lunar New Year this week. We celebrated by doing some Dragon Dancing.

Wow! How lucky are we to experience the Chinese Dragon workshop this afternoon. 🐉