3 months ago
Posted on 18th Jul 2025 by Miss Buckingham

Reception’s End of Year Video 2025

The Reception children have been working on a ‘secret project’ over the last few days to put together a special video to celebrate the completion of their first year of school! We are so proud of the children and hope they will look back at this video in years to come.
Have a lovely summer everyone!

Love from The Reception Team xx

11 months ago
Posted on 09th Dec 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Reading in Reception

The children in Reception have been working so hard and they are making great progress with their phonics and reading. Lots of children are now starting to bring home books/sheets to practise reading at home.

The phonics books that the children bring home need to be kept in their reading packs so they can be accessed at school each day, and swapped for new ones each week. Usually, book change takes place on a Friday, but this varies between groups depending on where they are up to in their sessions. These books are to be read to an adult, not independently. They are used to develop fluency. If the book is not returned to school, we cannot swap it for the next one. The blending books are particularly small and easy to lose, so keep an eye out as they slide out the packs. When children move onto Red books and higher, they will bring home two books, a bookbag book and a paper copy of the book they have read in class. Both these books need storing in their packs and returning to school each day to be swapped when ready.

Sound Blending Book 2 (Read Write Inc. Phonics): Amazon.co.uk: Archbold, Tim, Miskin, Ruth: 9780198424598: Books The bug (Red Ditty Book Bag Book 3) (Read Write Inc. Phonics) : Munton, Gill, Batori, Susan, Miskin, Ruth: Amazon.co.uk: Books Librarika: Read Write Inc. Phonics: Red Ditty Book 5 Pick it Up

Thank you for your continued support,

The Reception Team

11 months ago
Posted on 20th Nov 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Reception’s Snow Day Learning

Wow, we are so lucky to have had some more snow fall overnight and we can’t wait to see what you get up to today! We know you will be wrapping up warm and making the most of the snow. Please share lots of pictures/videos on Evidence Me if you can as we would all love to see what you have been up to. These are lots of ideas for what you might want to do today.

Build a snowman: Can you count how many buttons your snowman has? How many buttons would your snowman have if you added one more? How many buttons would your snowman have if you had one less? Is your snowman smaller than you? Is your snowman taller than you?

The Three Billy Goats Gruff: We have been reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff this week and we know that the goats wanted to cross the bridge because they had no more grass to eat. Lots of other animals will find it tricky to find food today in the snow. Can you help to feed them? Maybe you could feed the birds?

Can you draw a picture of the troll? Is he big? Is he bad? Is he mad? Can you write these words next to your troll using your Fred Fingers?

Physical Development: Yesterday, we noticed that lots of you needed help with your gloves and zipping up your coats. Today is the perfect day to practise. If you get good at it, maybe you could set a timer and see how fast you can get yourself ready for the snow!

You might want to have a snowball throwing competition. You have been working hard on your underarm throwing and cup catching in PE. How far can you throw a snowball? Can you beat your last throw? Can you catch a snowball?

Can you make a snow angel?

If you are wanting to get active inside instead, these are some fun snow themed movement breaks.

The ‘ELF’ Christmas Workout #GETKIDSMOVING (10Mins)

Winter run! 🏃‍♂️❄️ Winter Chase ❄️ Winter Brain Break ❄️ Just dance ❄️ Winter Games for Kids

Snow Action Song for Kids | Winter Brain Break | Preschool Learning Song| Sing Play Create

One Less Than: This week we have been finding one less. Can you line up some of your toys at home? You might want to use teddies or cars, you can choose anything. Count how many toys you have put in the line, take one away and see how many you have left?

Letter formation: Use the videos to remind your of the rhymes and practise writing your letters. You could air write, write it on paper or even write it in the snow! You could use a stick so you don’t get chilly fingers! This is the link to the videos: ‘a’ letter formation

Phonics: Here are some Fred Games to play to practise your blending. https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/SnvL4bgt/5yVhiwhf

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ObH5nXVH/gO1mXAaq

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/u4uUsphe/2RiKbvQf

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/BI1rcbBR/1rUXfTcP

Story Time: After a chilly day playing in the snow, why don’t you snuggle up under a blanket a share a story with someone at home?

Here is a link to watch Stickman try and make it home in time for Christmas in the snow. Stick Man – BBC iPlayer

Have a wonderful day in the snow.

Thanks,

The Reception Team

12 months ago
Posted on 24th Oct 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Telford Town FC Tickets

We have very kindly been gifted complimentary tickets for all of the pupils and parents to attend Telford Town FC’s home fixture on Saturday 26th October against Prees United! The game kicks off at 3pm and is a great opportunity for a free day out to watch a match!

Your child will be coming home with a ticket in their bag today or tomorrow, so please watch out for these!

1 year ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Extra PE tomorrow!

We are incredibly lucky to have been offered an extra PE session with our specialist Crossbar coaches tomorrow afternoon. Our coaches have been wowed by how well reception have thrown themselves into PE outside on our pitches and are really looking forward to the extra session they have chosen to give to us tomorrow!

Please can your child come to school wearing PE kit tomorrow(Tuesday 17th).

See you all in the morning ☺️

1 year ago
Posted on 06th Sep 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Our First Week in Reception!

Wow, what a busy week we have had settling into life at Newdale! We have loved getting to know all of the children and the adults are very proud of them all for their wonderful first week at school. We cannot wait for the year ahead of us!

Today, your child has come home with a reading diary and sharing story book in their bag. Your child chooses a story from our lovely reading gardens to bring home to share with you, but please return these so we can keep swapping them for more exciting stories to read! You might have noticed that their reading diary has a blank front cover; please can you get your child to decorate this by drawing their favourite book.

Next week, the children will have their first PE lessons. These will take place on Monday and Thursday. Please send your child into school wearing their PE kits on those days.

We hope the children have been busy telling you all about life in reception.

Have a lovely weekend,

Reception Team

1 year ago
Posted on 10th Jul 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Miss Buckingham’s Class – BeSMART Cup Treat

As the BeSMART winners, we have decided that we would like to wear our pyjamas to school tomorrow – Thursday 11th July. The children can come to school wearing these, but need trainers on their feet still (They may bring slippers for our movie in the afternoon if they would like).

We can’t wait to celebrate with you tomorrow!

1 year ago
Posted on 09th Jul 2024 by Miss Buckingham

Art Day – Materials needed!

We cannot wait to get stuck into art day on Friday! We are getting into our house teams across Year 1 and 2 to create a wonderful underwater display using recycled materials.

Please can you send your child into school with any egg boxes, bubble wrap, old CDs/DVDs, clear plastic bottles, round plastic bottle lids (e.g as seen on a milk bottle), cardboard toilet roll/kitchen roll tubes, clear plastic bags and brown packaging paper that you have so that they can use these to make coral and sea creatures.

Thank you so much for your support, KS1 team.

1 year ago
Posted on 24th Jun 2024 by Miss Buckingham

What an exciting start to Summer 2 in Miss Buckingham’s Class!

Wow, we have been extremely busy in our class so far in our final half term of Year 1!

We began the half term with Healthy Lifestyles Week, completing a circuit with gymnast Dominick Cunningham, using the Crossbar inflatables, going on different inflatables in the hall, meeting Dan Udoh, doing Zumba with Miss Lowe, riding our scooters and bikes in the playground and much, much more!

We had a fantastic careers day dressing up, meeting a farmer who works for the UK’s largest salad producing company (he drove his tractor to school to show us!) and having a session with West Mercia Search and Rescue.

This half term has been all about sandwiches! In literacy, we are writing instructions for making sandwiches, and in DT, we have learnt about healthy foods and made ourselves a healthy sandwich!

Last week, we showed our competitive spirits breaking into houses for a brilliant sports day! We loved cheering on our teams and showed great sportsmanship.

On Thursday morning, we had chicks come into our classroom. They were only 1 week old! We put them in the middle and observed them interacting with each other, stretching their wings, running around and some even pooing! We all got to stroke the chicks too – they were so soft!

We cannot wait for what the last four weeks of Year 1 has in store!

1 year ago
Posted on 24th May 2024 by Miss Buckingham

PE and Healthy Lifestyles Week

After the holidays, our PE days will remain the same – Wednesdays and Thursdays.

In the first week back, it will be Healthy Lifestyles Week. They can come to school in kit all week. The children will come home with a slip in their reading diaries on the first day back to record their activity at home. Please upload pictures as Miss Jones has explained to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes.

On Wednesday 5th June, we will be having our Wheelie Day. The children can bring their scooter or bike with them as we will be going outside to ride these together. They must have a helmet or will not be able to ride. Please speak to one of the Year 1 team if your child does not have a bike or scooter so that we can sort one out for them. Please take your children’s scooters or bikes round to the bike shed on the main playground as we will not be able to store them in the Year 1 Outdoor Area.

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