This week the children enjoyed a circus skills workshop! Our school hall was transformed into a big top and a performer called Lucas Jet dazzled us with his jaw dropping tricks, including riding on the tallest bike we had ever seen! We also got to take part in our own individual workshop where Lucas taught us how to hold a spinning plate whilst walking and how to perform tricks with bouncing sticks. We were all amazing and impressed our teachers with our perseverance and excellent listening skills. Well done, Reception!

This week has been Masterchef week at Roebuck Academy. In Reception our text for the week has been Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen, so the children decided that they would like to make their own chocolate cake. Working together they measured ingredients, mixed and cooked. The cooking sessions generated lots of discussion about materials and changes and generated lots of great vocabulary. The chocolate mug cakes the children made were magnificent and luckily there were plenty of cakes so everyone could taste how delicious they were. At Roebuck Academy we are bakers! 

The children in reception have been finding out facts about the Queen, in preparation for the jubilee. Each day the children found out facts about a period in the Queen’s life. We used these facts as a stimulus for our writing and by the end of the week they made their very own fact file about the Queen. They found out lots of different facts from when she was born in 1922, when she got married to Phillip, when she became queen, right up to 2022 for her Platinum Jubilee.  

The children made different crafts each day for the jubilee celebration. They created paper chains, made their own Union Jack flags and decorated biscuits. We practised two different songs to sing at our Jubilee Street Party which were: Street Party and Trooping the Colour which the children enjoyed creating actions for the songs. We also practised a fitness dance which looked at dances from the 1950s to the 2000’s. On Friday, we celebrated the Jubilee with our own street party enjoying food, singing, dancing and competitions. At Roebuck Academy we are Historians.  

The sun was shinning for our trip to Forest School this week. The children enjoyed their daily snack in the outside classroom before heading to Creature Corner. There was a big surprise when we got there! While we had all been away enjoying our Easter holidays the trees and bushes had sprouted their new leaves. Everywhere we looked there were leaves and blossom. We started our session reminding ourselves of the forest rules and had a quick game of hide and seek. Next the children split into small groups and used their senses to look, listen, smell and touch.  We finished our Forest school session with our Thank You song, remembering how lucky we are to have such lovely nature on our doorstep. At Roebuck Academy we are observers. 

Every day the children in reception get a visit from Marvin the Monkey.  Marvin is a friendly, stripey monkey who teaches the children to write cursive letters. Each letter he teaches them has a story and a picture to help them remember how to write the letter correctly. Marvin has two golden rules - start on the line every time and start with a little smile. Every day Marvin looks at the children's handwriting and if he is really pleased with the children he gives them a special Marvin clap. Look how quickly and beautifully the children have learnt to form their letters. At Roebuck Academy we are writers.