Reception’s first week

Reception have had a fabulous first week in school. The children have been exploring the different areas within the classroom and the outdoor area.

Reception Read Write Inc parent meeting

Reception parents were invited into class to read with their child. Parents then had the opportunity to meet with Mrs Wilkinson to find out about our phonics scheme ‘Read Write inc’. During the meeting, parents were given a reading pack to help with their child’s reading and writing at home.

Our Senses

The children in Reception have been learning about their senses. They had the opportunity to taste different foods. they tasted foods that are salty, bitter, sour and sweet.

CAFOD Visit

On Monday 23rd CAFOD visited our school to tell us all about how their World Gifts scheme has developed and how Catholic Social Teaching principles remind us how to live together, supporting everyone.

Water Play

Both indoors and outdoors, Reception children have been exploring the water areas. Allowing children to explore water safely helps children to develop and strengthen their gross and fine motor skills, as well as improving their hand-eye coordination. They have enjoyed finding different ways to make the water travel.

Looking after our teeth

In Reception we have been learning about people who help us, we looked at the job of a dentist. We then talked about how we can keep our teeth healthy. The children had a chance to practise their teeth brushing skills.

Buddies Assembly

Year 6 welcomed their buddies from Reception to St Jude’s Catholic Primary School during assembly.

Reception class 2024 open evening. 🌈

🌟 📚 Do you have a child due to start Reception Class in September 2025?
Applications have opened on the Wigan Council website and will close on 25th January 2025. Between now and the closing date is your opportunity to visit local primary schools and choose the right school for your child. ❤️

📚 To give prospective families a closer look at our fantastic reception class and the experiences we offer, we invite you to our Open Evening on Wednesday, 27th November from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

🍎 Join us to tour school, meet our dedicated staff and discover all that St. Jude’s has to offer. It’s a perfect opportunity to ask questions and see firsthand how we create a supportive and stimulating environment for our youngest learners.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our nurturing, vibrant school community! We can’t wait to welcome you and your child.

⭐️ For more information and to apply, visit the Wigan Council website today! https://www.wigan.gov.uk/resident/education/schools/school-admissions/primary-schools.aspx

StJudesschool #Reception2025 #OpenEvening #WiganCouncil #EarlyYearsEducation #FutureofEducation

Autumn

In Reception, the children have been learning about the season of Autumn. They had the opportunity to go on an Autumn walk around the school grounds to look for signs of Autumn. The children also rolled conkers in paint to create some fantastic pieces of art.

Bonfire Night

Reception about the story of ‘The Gunpowder Plot’. The children also had a discussion about keeping safe during Bonfire Night. They then had the opportunity to make some edible sparklers and created some firework artwork.

❤️🌈⭐️ Fun Friday in Early Years ⭐️🌈❤️

What a lovely morning we have had in our early years department this morning. ⭐️
We have been using our water play equipment, we have been pouring, mixing and strengthening our developing gross and fine motor skills.

⭐️❤️🥰 Open Evening 🥰❤️⭐️

🌟 📚 Do you have a child due to start Reception Class in September 2025?
Applications have opened on the Wigan Council website and will close on 25th January 2025. Between now and the closing date is your opportunity to visit local primary schools and choose the right school for your child. ❤️

📚 To give prospective families a closer look at our fantastic reception class and the experiences we offer, we invite you to our Open Evening on Wednesday, 27th November from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

🍎 Join us to tour school, meet our dedicated staff and discover all that St. Jude’s has to offer. It’s a perfect opportunity to ask questions and see firsthand how we create a supportive and stimulating environment for our youngest learners.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our nurturing, vibrant school community! We can’t wait to welcome you and your child.

⭐️ For more information and to apply, visit the Wigan Council website today! https://www.wigan.gov.uk/resident/education/schools/school-admissions/primary-schools.aspx

StJudesschool #Reception2025 #OpenEvening #WiganCouncil #EarlyYearsEducation #FutureofEducation

Open evening ❤️🌈⭐️

🌟 📚 Do you have a child due to start Reception Class in September 2025?
Applications have opened on the Wigan Council website and will close on 25th January 2025. Between now and the closing date is your opportunity to visit local primary schools and choose the right school for your child. ❤️

📚 To give prospective families a closer look at our fantastic reception class and the experiences we offer, we invite you to our Open Evening on Wednesday, 27th November from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

🍎 Join us to tour school, meet our dedicated staff and discover all that St. Jude’s has to offer. It’s a perfect opportunity to ask questions and see firsthand how we create a supportive and stimulating environment for our youngest learners.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our nurturing, vibrant school community! We can’t wait to welcome you and your child.

⭐️ For more information and to apply, visit the Wigan Council website today! https://www.wigan.gov.uk/resident/education/schools/school-admissions/primary-schools.aspx

StJudesschool #Reception2025 #OpenEvening #WiganCouncil #EarlyYearsEducation #FutureofEducation

Fun in the Snow

After the snow fall over night, Reception had lots of fun playing and exploring outside.

Art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy

The children in Reception looked at and discussed photographs of Andy Goldsworthy’s artwork and sculptures. They then create their own pieces of art in the style of And Goldsworthy.

Shadows

In Reception we have been exploring light and dark. The children enjoyed making shadow and finger puppets in class.

Pattern

The children in Reception have been learning about pattern. They explored making patterns such as spiral, zig zag, lines and dots. They then went on to make AB patterns with their bodies and coloured objects.

Wigan Library Services

Reception had a visitor from Wigan Library Services, they learned about what the local libraries have to offer and found out how to become a member of a library. The children also enjoyed joining in with fun, interactive stories.

Christmas Buddies

Reception and Year 6 have enjoyed spending some time together with their buddies, sharing Christmas cards that they have made for each other and eating lunch together.

Winter

In Reception, the children have been learning about winter. They had chance to spot scenes of winter on a wonderful walk around the school grounds, they learnt about wearing appropriate clothes in winter to keep warm. They had the opportunity to explore freezing and melting with real life snow. They also painted some beautiful winter scenes.

Partitioning five

In Reception, the children have been exploring ways to partition 5 into different parts. They have been singing five little speckled frogs and they have also been hiding the frogs into the pool to find different way to partition 5.

Chinese New Year

The children in Reception have been learning about Chinese New Year, they learned about the celebrations and traditions that take place. The children enjoyed tasting some delicious, Chinese food and made some fabulous decorations.

Handa’s Surprise Food tasting

This week, Reception have been reading Handa’s surprise. They have had the opportunity to taste the delicious fruits from the story. Whilst doing so, the children described how the fruits felt, smelt and tasted.

NSPCC Number Day

Reception enjoyed taking part in NSPCC number day.

Colour Mixing

Reception have been exploring mixing primary colours together.

Artwork in Reception

Reception have been creating art in the style of Kandinsky.

Shrove Tuesday

The children in Reception learnt about Shrove Tuesday. They then had the opportunity to choose and add toppings to their pancakes.

Floating and Sinking

This week in Reception, the children have been exploring floating and sinking in our outdoor water area. They found different objects from inside and outside of the classroom to investigate whether they float or whether they sink.

World Book Day

The children in Reception dressed up as a character from their favourite story book. The children had a brilliant day celebrating books. During the day their year 6 buddies came to class to share a story with their Reception buddy.

Investigating 7

In Reception, the children played a game to investigate ways of making 7 with two parts.

Road Safety

The children in Reception have been learning about how to keep safe on the roads, they learned all about how to cross the road safely. They enjoyed taking part in different activities related to road safety.

Number Doubles

Reception have been doubling numbers within 10 using their fingers, dice and objects. They also had a go at writing the number sentence.

Reception RE – The Last Supper

Reception retold the story of The Last Supper together. They then shared some bread and a drink. They passed it around and reenacted the story of Jesus’ meal with his friends.

The Big Lent Walk

Reception went on their Big Lent Walk around the school grounds.

Reception Maths – Capacity

in Maths this week, Reception have been learning about capacity. They have been exploring filling containers using whilst using the vocabulary ”full, nearly full, empty, nearly empty’.

Mother’s Day 💕

A fabulous Prayer and Liturgy to celebrate all of the amazing ladies in our lives.

Easter Garden

The children in Reception made Easter Gardens to further their learning about Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

3D Shape

In Reception, the children have been learning about 3D shapes. They built models using the different 3D shapes they have been learning about, whilst building the models the children talked about the properties of the 3D shapes.

Springtime

In Reception this week, the children have been learning about the season of spring. The children have been on a spring walk around the school grounds to look for signs of spring. The children have also created some beautiful observational paintings of spring flowers.

Magnets

The reception children have been exploring magnets. They discovered that magnets stick to some objects, like metal, but not to others, like wood or plastic. They enjoyed testing what a magnet can pick up and were surprised by magnetic attraction and repulsion. 

Easter Baskets

During Spring 2, in RE, Reception class learned about different traditions that take place during Lent. The children learned about a tradition in Poland, this is where baskets containing a sampling of Easter foods are brought to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday. The basket is traditionally lined with a white linen or lace napkin and decorated with sprigs of boxwood (bukszpan), the typical Easter evergreen. As a class we decided to make a class basket to share with the local foodbank. The children donated packets and tins of food to contribute to the Easter basket.

Minibeast Hunt

Reception went on a minibeast hunt around the school grounds, they found lots of woodlice!

Ladybirds

Reception have been reading What the Ladybird Heard, they made some ladybirds. This activity developed the children’s cutting, folding and joining skills.

Clay Spiders

As part of Reception’s topic ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. Reception have been creating clay spiders, the spiders were inspired by Louise Bourgeois ‘Mamam’ sculpture.

Pentecost

Reception children have been learning about the coming of the Holy Spirit in RE, we had a Pentecost celebration in class. The children decorated a banner to display in class, they decorated biscuits with red icing and they made paper swirls to blow in the wind.

Hinduism

In Reception, we had a visit from one of our parents and siblings. They came into class to talk about their religion. The children learnt about different Hindu traditions and beliefs.

Year 6 and Reception Prayer and Liturgy

Year 6 and Reception have taken part in a Prayer and Liturgy together in our Spiritual Garden. The children reflected on the times they have spent together this year and how they are now ready for their next step as Reception move into Y1 and Y6 move up to High School.

Y6 and Reception buddies.

Year 6 have spent their last lunch at St. Jude’s with their buddies from Reception.

Achievers Assembly

On Friday, we celebrated our first Achievers Assembly of the new school year. Well done to this week’s achievers! Keep up the great work ⭐️

Settling In

Reception have made a great start to their time at St Jude’s. We have enjoyed making new friends, learning our classroom rules and routine and exploring all the learning opportunity. We are looking forward to a fun filled year together!