The Gates Primary SchoolReception - Penguins: Blog items
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 2:50pm
I am so excited Penguins, last week we have won the whole school reading challenge. We had the highest per event age of green readers, this is brilliant Penguins! Let's keep it up and see if we can do it again this week!
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 2:55pm
Well done to our star of the week! Violet has worked so hard on her learning from home, always gives 100% and has made massive progress with her writing. Well done superstar!
Penguins - Amazing home learning!
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 1:45pm
We have had another week of amazing home learning from Penguins. They have done brilliantly on our live Maths lessons. One of their challenges was to build a bridge for the Chinese animals to cross over, these bridges are brilliant! Well done Penguins!
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 1:35pm
Today as part of our LGBT+ Rainbow month we read the story and Tango makes three. It's a story about 2 boy penguins that want to have a baby penguin like all the other penguins in the zoo. We used this book to talk about families, who is in our families and how all our families are different and all just as special.
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 1:35pm
Well done to our Star of the Week, awarded for amazing sentence writing; you have really blown me away!
Well done to all our weekly winners too and to all of Penguins that read this week, we had 81% green readers this week; amazing!!
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 3:00pm
We have been having lots of fun exploring the computers this week. We have drawn pictures of boats and also started to look at simple algorithms to move the bee around the flowers. This has shown that we need to practise our mouse skills as we really struggled to hold the mouse and click, so we are going to work on this.
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 1:17pm
This week we have two stars of the week because one of ours stars was away last week.
Both of our stars have been awarded because they have really blown my socks off this week with all there hard work. One has made great progress with her reading and learnt lots of new sounds since she has come back to school. My other star has really impressed me with how hard he has worked with his writing this week and has made some great progress in reading too.
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A massive well done to both of you!
Well done to our house point winner too!
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 11:39am
We have had a great first week learning about underwater transport. We have explored floating and sinking, learnt a new paint technique using wax crayons and paint, as well as developing our constructions skills by making junk model submarines.
Penguins amazing homelearning!
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 10:29am
Wow! What another amazing week of learning we have had from the children at home. You all continue to amaze me at how hard you are still working and hw much you are enjoying your activities. We have had brilliant writing, doubling and some wonderful junk model submarines!
Well done Penguins and a big thank you to all your grown ups to for helping you with your learning!
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 5:45pm
We have been really enjoying learning all about Winter this week in school and have got really stick in to all our challenges. We have been building snowmen out of cloud dough, igloos out of sugar cubes, making winter pictures and prentended to be melting snowmen! We have also been using lots of new and exciting words to describe winter.
Penguins - Amazing homelearning
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 5:39pm
I have been so proud and so impressed with all the homelearning every single Penguin has been doing at home this week. I know its not easy and you are all missing school but you are making me so proud and showing real resiliance, keep it up Penguins.
These are just a few of the wonderful activities that some children have been busy with at home, I especially love the snowmen!
Date: 7th Jan 2021 @ 2:28pm
As part of our winter topic we went on a winter walk this afternoon in our school grounds. We got ourselves ready in our winter suits and wellies and went outside. When we were walking we talked about what we could hear and touch. The children came up with some great words like crackle and crunch. We then used our bodies to make different shapes and patterns in the snow. We have also brought some snow inside for us to explore in different ways!
What have you done with the snow at home?
Date: 18th Dec 2020 @ 1:05pm
Well done to our house point winner and reading challenge winner this week!
Penguins- Christmas Performances!
Date: 17th Dec 2020 @ 1:02pm
We loved watching all the Christmas Performances this afternoon. Really put us in a festive mood! 🎄🎅🏼
Penguins- outdoor Christmas fun!
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 1:27pm
We have been getting very busy outside today! Some children started jumping off some of the equipment, which turned into a small obstacle course which then turned into Santa's elves escaping from the snow and adapting the obstacle course to make it more challenge!
There was amazing team work, turn taking, as well as managing risks when moving! Well done!
We also had some boys decide to build their own little elf out of bricks!
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 11:53am
We had a great time at our Festive Christmas party lunch!
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 11:22am
It may have been wet but we loved our Santa Dash this morning and managed to run around the track 7 times in 15 minutes.
Well done Penguins!
We even had one superstar take part from home, amazing!!
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 11:11am
What another great week this week Penguins. I can't believe we have only 1 week left of our Autumn Term.
This week we start our celebrations with a very special award that we don't always give out; our Always Child. This is awarded to someone who ALWAYS makes the right choice, always tries their best and is always willing to help. This was an easy decision this week for me. Alexa always makes the right choices and always blows my socks off at how hard she tries to push and progress herself every day, even at home! Well done Alexa!
Well done to our star of the week this week for working so hard in all your learning. You have tried so hard with your writing this week and really impressed me with your segmenting and blending, well done!
Well done to our other winners this week.
Have a great weekend Penguins!
Date: 10th Dec 2020 @ 2:57pm
We are so excited today as we have received and early Christmas treat from The BookTrust; a free book!
Click on the photo of us to find out more information and some free online stories and fun games to play!
I'd love to see some pictures of you reading your new book on Evidence Me.
Thank you BookTrust, we can't wait to get home and read it!!
Date: 10th Dec 2020 @ 2:04pm
We had a great time outside today. A group of children decided to build Santa's sleigh. They discussed with each other what they needed to use and worked well together to add the different parts.
They then used the sleigh for some imaginary role-play. I personally loved the reindeers at the front driving the sleigh!
Which reindeer would you be?
Date: 9th Dec 2020 @ 5:10pm
We are having a great week this week learning all about Christmas. We have started to learn what Christmas is and why we celebrate it and we have been really busy with our Christmas related challenges. We been making parachutes for Santa and writing him letters, decorating Christmas trees with festive loose parts as well as creating our own winter wonderland in the water tray whilst exploring floating and sinking!
We can't wait for the rest of the week!
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 3:17pm
Wow!! Thank you so much for all your contributions today! We have a brilliant amount of food and supplies to help our local community.
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 1:49pm
Well done to our winners this week!
I chose my star of the week for always trying his hardest with his learning in school and at home. He is making great progress and that's due to his hard work and determination! Well done!
Have a great weekend Penguins!
Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 12:13pm
We have been really enjoying learning about All About Autumn.
We read the story Don't hog the hedge which is all about a hedgehog getting ready for hibernation.
Penguins now know what hibernation is and have loved making hibernation dens outside for different animals.
We have also been looking at simularities and differences this week between Autumn weather and Summer.
Date: 2nd Dec 2020 @ 7:48am
So, yesterday when we came into school we had a new class memeber! We found our friend Buddy the Elf sat in the Christmas tree! Buddy had written us a letter and said that he was coming to see how we all share in Reception because the elves at the North Pole aren't always very good at it!
We talked about how we could help Buddy and have been working really hard to show him good sharing!
We have also decorated our Christmas tree with our beautiful handmade decorations!
