27/02/26 - RD

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 1:13pm

We’ve had a wonderful and busy week in Reception as we began our exciting new topic: Castles and Dragons. The children have been full of curiosity, imagination, and brilliant questions already!

In Drawing Club this week, we explored George and the Dragon by Christopher Wormell. The children loved discovering the characters and imagining what might happen next. They created fantastic drawings inspired by the story and practised using descriptive language to bring their ideas to life.

Our topic led us into history, where we have been looking closely at castles and their different features. The children learned new vocabulary such as turret, drawbridge, moat, portcullis and battlements. They enjoyed labelling parts of a castle and discussing what each feature was used for. There were lots of enthusiastic conversations about knights, kings, queens, and how castles kept people safe long ago.

In maths, we have introduced the concept of time. We’ve been learning about the order of events and the children practised putting simple activities in order. We have also used egg timers to help understand the concept of time and we have been looking at routines in their day as well as days of the week. This helps them build early understanding of how time passes and how to talk about it.

We are going to be doing Forest school again, starting on Wednesday and our PE lessons are now on Mondays again.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Dyson and Mrs Powell