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  • Amazing animals in Reception

    Published 02/03/24, by Andy Mari

    It has been a wild week in our Reception classes! The children have been very excited about our new topic 'Amazing Animals'. The children were amazed to receive a letter from Shepreth Wildlife Park explaining that some wild animals had escaped from the park and were last seen heading to Roebuck Academy! We found lots of animal prints in our outdoor area and were very surprised to watch a video of wild animals stampeding through our Reception garden. We have found out about the continent of Africa and some of the wild animals that can be found in Africa. We enjoyed finding out lots of interesting facts about different African animals and all the children have contributed to a class display on animals. Their artwork looks fabulous in our classrooms. At Roebuck we are zoologists!

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  • Lunar New Year in Reception

    Published 10/02/24, by Andy Mari

    This week in Reception, we have been very excited to learn about the Lunar New Year and welcomed in The Year of the Dragon. On Monday, we had an experience day where we took part in lots of different activities based on the Lunar New Year. The children learned dance moves using features of the Lunar New Year such as fans, fireworks and lanterns. The children were very creative and made their own lanterns which they decorated and put up in our classrooms. We also learned about the different types of food eaten in China and throughout the week the children made their very own noodle stir fry. At Roebuck we are Chefs!

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  • All aboard the London bus in Reception

    Published 27/01/24, by Andy Mari

    This week the children have been exploring London through the text, 'All aboard the London Bus!'. Each day, the children have role played boarding a London bus, including having their ticket punched by the conductor and travelling to a different part of London. The children enjoyed exploring Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, The Underground, London Bridge and finally The Tower of London to see the crown jewels. As part of our learning, the children have created their own London Bus and wrote independent sentences about travelling on a London Bus, remembering to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops! Well done, Reception. At Roebuck, we are writers!

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  • Let's explore in Reception

    Published 16/01/24, by Andy Mari

    This week the children have been very excited about our new topic 'Let's Explore'. We began our new topic by exploring our local area and created a mind map of what makes Stevenage special. We identified lots of places including, the football stadium, the cinema, the shops, the theatre, Marks and Spencer's, Fairlands Park and many more! We then looked at photographs that had been taken in and around Stevenage and tried our hardest to recognise where they were taken. We also used Google Earth to zoom into the school and different places around Stevenage. The children all enjoyed contributing to a class display of our local area and made different types of homes, shops and buildings. During our Child Initiated Learning time, some children have been busy writing independently about what they see in our local area. What a fun week it has been! At Roebuck we are geographers! 

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  • Delicious in Reception Classes

    Published 09/12/23, by Andy Mari

    Our topic this half-term is 'Delicious' and in our literacy lessons the children enjoyed looking at recipe books and learning about the features of non-fiction texts. We have been writing a set of instructions for a Chocolate Mug Cake and of course once we had done this, we had to make the Mug Cake! The children were fantastic at following a recipe and all agreed our cake was delicious! At Roebuck we are chefs!

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  • Nature explores in Reception

    Published 25/11/23, by Andy Mari

    This week in Literacy, we have been reading the text 'Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk'. Grandma Fantastic has been giving the children some tricky words, but the children have been using their robot arms to sound them out amazingly. We have been describing the taste of jellybeans and was even able to taste some to give us some ideas. The children came up with words like 'sticky, sweet, tasty, yummy, gooey'. We based our Forest School session on their Literacy book this week and made our very own nature-inspired beanstalk. The children were brilliant at following instructions and working together and were pleased with their finished creation. We look forward to seeing if anything travels down the beanstalk at next week's Forest School session! At Roebuck, we are nature explorers! 

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  • Fireworks in Reception

    Published 11/11/23, by Andy Mari

    We have had another busy week in Reception. This week we have been talking all about fireworks. They were very excited to share all about the fireworks that they had seen over the weekend. We watched some videos of fireworks and thought about the colours and sounds that we could hear like pop, fizz and bang. We then created some firework artwork using toilet rolls and paint to create the shape before adding glitter to make our fireworks sparkle.  For an extra challenge we then had a go and writing some of our firework sounds using our phonics to help us. Our artworks look amazing! At Roebuck we are artists!

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  • Pumpkin Painting in Reception

    Published 14/10/23, by Andy Mari

    This week has been another busy one in our Reception classes. The children enjoyed completing a set of 'choosing' challenges. These challenges included painting a picture of a pumpkin, tapping golf tees into a pumpkin and using paint rollers to paint the floor with water. All these challenges are designed to develop the children's fine and gross motor skills, which are vital for writing. This week, the children visited Forest School again and learnt about hibernating animals and pretended to be squirrels and hid acorns in the forest. The children also enjoyed collecting objects such as leaves, sticks, and plants to create a picture of a hedgehog. At Roebuck, we are Adventurers!

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  • Dinosuars in Reception!!!

    Published 29/09/23, by Andy Mari

    It has been another busy fun filled week in Reception with lots of wonderful learning going on. We started our week off with a bang with a surprise visit from a pair of dinosaurs! After discovering that two of our dinosaur eggs were missing, we all went on a dinosaur hunt. The children were surprised and amazed to find two dinosaurs in our EYFS garden. Luckily, they were friendly dinosaurs and the children enjoyed playing chasing and running games with them. The children have also been looking for signs of Autumn and went on an Autumn scavenger hunt at Forest School and learnt how to paint Autumn trees. These paintings look wonderful in our classrooms. At roebuck we are artists!

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  • Dino-tastic week in Reception

    Published 16/09/23, by Andy Mari

    First of all, we want to congratulate your wonderful children on an amazing first two weeks at school. It has been a pleasure getting to know all the children and they have all settled in brilliantly and been such a joy. Well done to each and every one of them! The children have had a busy two weeks in reception. They have settled really well into their classes and have enjoyed exploring the environments. This week has been particularly exciting as we began our ‘dinosaur topic’. We looked at non-fiction books about dinosaurs, watched interesting video clips and enjoyed listening to fiction stories about dinosaurs. The children also created their own dinosaur silhouette skeleton for our class book areas. Our ‘dino-tastic’ week even included a dinosaur egg hunt at Forest School. The children were amazed to find dinosaur eggs hidden  in the bushes. We are now observing the eggs very closely for a sign of hatching! I wonder what will happen next. At Roebuck we are dinosaur egg hunters!

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  • Designing in Reception

    Published 08/07/23, by Andy Mari

    This week the children in Reception have taken inspiration from a text called ‘On Sudden Hill’. In the text, two best friends make amazing objects out of cardboard boxes. The children have enjoyed listening to the story and being creative! The children have made some amazing objects out of recycled cardboard boxes and other recycling. They began by first designing their model and labelling it and then set about building it using all the skills they had been taught this year. They impressed their teachers with their designs and how well they joined different materials together. Once completed the children wrote sentences about their creations. So far, the children have made some fantastic models including a bus, a jet pack, cars and even a helipad and helicopter! We are looking forward to seeing some more creations next week. Well done, Reception! At Roebuck we are designers!

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  • Caterpillar find in Reception

    Published 25/06/23, by Andy Mari

    At the beginning of this half-term the children were very excited to find caterpillars in their classrooms! The children have been fascinated to watch the caterpillars grown ten times their original size! We then observed the caterpillars form a chrysalis and waited patiently for our caterpillars to finally emerge as butterflies. We have spent the last few days observing the butterflies in their tent, and today we set them free. We had a lovely time watching the butterflies leave their tent and fly away to start their life cycle all over again! At Roebuck, we are scientists!

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