Welcome to the Gateshead Reception Class Page. Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this year.
Weeks beginning 22nd and 29th March 2021
Wow - another term over already! Since coming back to school following lockdown the children have amazed us with their resilience and positive attitude. It is so lovely to hear the buzz of excitement around the classroom again. This week the children have continued to work super hard and have enjoyed lots of Easter themed activities. Well done Team Gateshead! I hope you have a wonderful Easter with your family.
Week beginning 15th March 2021
Another great week in Gateshead class and this week I really want to celebrate our super work in PE. It was a beautifully sunny day for our outdoor PE session on Monday and this certainly put a spring in our step. At the beginning of our lesson we thought about what makes a good throw and catch. The children came up with some super suggestions, such as, keeping your eye on the ball, getting your hands ready to catch and not throwing the ball too high. We then put these skills to te test and demonstrated some fantastic throwing and catching. Not only did we really improve our ball skills during the session but the teamwork throughout was wonderful to see - the children really encouraged each other by helping one another and clapping and cheering for each other. Well done Gateshead - it's so lovely to be back in our team again!
It is so lovely to have everyone back in school. The week has been full of smiles, laughter, fun and happiness! The main focus for our week has been settling back in, becoming reacquainted and lots of discussion about our lockdown experiences. The children were introduced to Wilbur, our class worry monster and we took
part in a wide range of PSHE activities using lots of different stories to help us settle back into school life. I am super proud of how well all of the children have settled back in - it’s so wonderful to have you back Team Gateshead!
Congratulations to Alfie for winning our 'story in a box' competition for World Book Day!
Week beginning 1st February 2021
What a wonderful week we have had celebrating ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’. We have loved seeing all of the fantastic activities you have been busy doing at home!
Week beginning 25th January 2021
Another great week everyone! We have love seeing all of your snowy adventures this week as well as all of your amazing work. Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you (virtually) next week for our well-being themed week.
Week beginning 18th January 2021
Well done for another wonderful week. There has been so much amazing work produced again this week and I have felt extremely proud of you all. Your grown ups are doing a fantastic job of helping you all with your busy work so a big thank you to them too. I can’t wait to see some more super work next week. Have a lovely weekend everyone and take care.
Week beginning 11th January 2021
Wow Gateshead Class! You have blown me away with all of your AMAZING work this week. It has been an absolute delight to see all of your lovely posts and updates on Tapestry - keep them coming as they really make me smile. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend - enjoy a well deserved rest with your family.
Week beginning 4th January 2021
Hello everyone and a big 'Happy New Year' to you all. What a start to 2021 with the closure of school for the majority of children. We are so sad that we only got to spend one day with you all but it was great to hear all about your Christmas holidays on Monday. We can't wait to see all of your posts about all of the busy work you are doing at home with your grown ups. Stay safe everyone and we look forward to seeing you all soon!
Week beginning 14th December 2020
What a wonderful end to our first term! We have had so much festive fun with our Christmas party, pantomime day with Christmas jumpers, looking at 'The Jolly Christmas Postman' story and so many other Christmassy activities. We finished our week with our marble jar party - a pyjama party with snacks while we watched the brilliant Stick Man animation. It got us all feeling very festive and extremely excited for Christmas.
I would like to take this opportunity to say a big well done to all of the children in Gateshead class - even though things are very different at the moment for us all the children have taken everything in their stride and been an absolute credit to yourselves and Emmaville. Everyday they make us so proud with their resilience and positive attitude. Well done Team Gateshead!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2021!
This week we have had a fun filled festive week with lots of Christmas activities. We have been busy with Christmas crafts, looked super smart for our Christmas Jumper Day, had lots of fun at the Mog workshop with Seven Stories and, of course, enjoyed our delicious Christmas lunch cooked by Lisa and the kitchen team. Please enjoy looking at some of our very festive photographs. I have also included a video of our brilliant Makaton performance of the song 'We wish you a Merry Christmas'. I'm sure you will agree that the children's signing is amazing!
We have been feeling very festive in Gateshead class this week. Our week began with an exciting video message from Santa - he has asked us to take part in a very important challenge! Our mission is to collect 300 carrots to fuel his reindeer for their busy night which is fast approaching. In order to earn carrots we need to complete some physical challenges - each minute of exercise we complete earns us one carrot. Well, Gateshead class did not disappoint - we have all worked our socks off and made a great start to our mission. We have taken part in lots of dough disco, cosmic yoga, penguin dancing and go noodle, as well as our weekly PE sessions. I’m sure we’re going to collect 300 carrots very quickly and make Santa and his reindeer very happy.
This week we started our new Talk for Writing story. It is called 'The Little Green Dinosaur' and is all about a baby dinosaur who has lost his mummy. We have been busy learning the story using actions and our story map and enjoyed lots of other dinosaur activities during our choosing time. We have learnt lots of new dinosaur themed words which we have explored the meaning of, these include; carnivore, herbivore, extinct, reptile and prehistoric. I'm sure that, by the end of our unit, we are all going to be dinosaur experts!
Wow Gateshead class - you have blown us away with your amazing bake off skills. We had some fantastic entries - all of your bakes looked delicious!! It was a very tough decision but our Children in Need bake off winner was..... Scarlett!! Well done Scarlett for your scrumptious looking Blush cupcakes. A big thank you and well done to all of our other star bakers too!
Wow Gateshead, what a busy week it has been! You have been so amazing with your home learning activities and have made us all feel extremely proud. Thank you to all of your grown ups too for being so brilliant! We have enjoyed lots of phonics and maths work and, of course, some lovely activities based around Remembrance Day and Children in Need. We hope you have a lovely restful weekend - you all deserve it. It won't be long until we're back at school together again and we can't wait to see you all. Take care everyone and stay safe.
Welcome back everyone! It sounds like everyone had a great half term and enjoyed lots of spooky Halloween fun. This week we have started a journey to the jungle as part of our PE lessons. We will be continuing this journey throughout the half term to help develop our fundamental movement skills, such as, balancing, crawling, jumping, hopping, throwing and catching. The children have all worked really hard on their first week back - it's lovely to see their enthusiasm and excitement when learning new things - well done Gateshead class, a great start to the half term!
This week our main maths focus was all about comparing amounts. We used a range of manipulatives (cubes, sweets, toys and blocks) to find which group (from a choice of two) had more, fewer or equal objects. The children then worked hard to articulate their findings into a sentence, for example, three is fewer than five.
It has been so lovely to get to know each of the children during the first few weeks of their school life. They have all been absolute superstars; working hard and being so enthusiastic about everything we do!
We hope you all have a lovely half term together and we look forward to welcoming you back to school next Monday for another exciting half term. Stay safe everyone.
Another wonderful week in Gateshead class. This week we enjoyed the story 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell. The children have enjoyed acting out the story using various props, making their own owl pictures, looking at nocturnal and diurnal animals and thinking about words to describe an owl feather. To finish off our lovely week we listened to the story 'Wow said the owl' and joined in with the song 'A wise old owl'. Have a lovely weekend Gateshead class and we look forward to seeing you all next week for our last week before half term.
This week the children have enjoyed the story 'Shark in the Park' by Nick Sharratt. We have had a very busy week with lots of shark themed activities in the classroom; we made our own telescopes and went on a shark hunt, acted out the story using small world resources, made play dough sharks and danced along to the baby shark song. We also found out many interesting shark facts and completed some shared writing based on our findings. The children worked hard to identify the rhyming words from the story and blew us away with their fantastic rhyming knowledge throughout the week. Well done Gateshead - another super week!
Another great week in Gateshead class this week. I am so proud of how well the children have adjusted to their new routines and environment - they have all been superstars!
This week we have introduced the children to maths sessions. Our focus for this week was counting and the children worked really hard to develop their counting skills both by recalling numbers in order and counting objects using one to one correspondence.
A big welcome to Gateshead Class to all of our new Reception children and their families. This week we have played lots of getting to know you games, met Rambo (our class tortoise), learned the sounds m, s, a, d and t in our phonics sessions and enjoyed exploring our new classroom environment. The children have settled into their new class very well and have had a super week. I can't wait to spend the year with you on your Reception learning journey - we are going to have so much fun!
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