Here at St Hilda’s School, Harpenden we have had a fabulous start to our first term in Reception. We are busy all day every day. We like to think that we both work hard and play hard. We have learnt so many new things from where we put our coats and PE bags, how to hold our pencils and have had so many new lessons.
Each day we practice our reading , work on our sounds and phonics and investigate numbers, shapes or measurements in Maths. We are whizzing through knowing our single sounds and also know many of our double sounds that are called digraphs. We can now blend many of these sounds to read words and are learning how to write them correctly too! In Maths we love exploring problems and are often found around the school searching for numbers or shapes and seeing how Maths is used in everyday life.
In order to get to know each other better we have been finding out about our families. Some of us have lots of brothers and sisters and some of us have just one. We have painted pictures of both ourselves and our families and looked hard to see what features we all have such as eye and hair colour.
In PE we have been practising cross country running and enjoyed taking part in the whole school daily mile on the field. On the last day of the half term we took part in the Harvest Festival at the Methodist church. We were very proud to walk to the church and back wearing our smart red blazers like the older girls. We worked really hard to learn the chorus’s of all the hymns and wowed the congregation with our very enthusiastic renditions of both ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’ and the ‘Harvest Samba’