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Newcastle Reception

Welcome to the Newcastle Reception Class Page.  Here, you can find out about everything that we've been doing this term.
Week Ending Friday 16th January 2026
 
This week in maths we have explored capacity - the amount a container can hold.
Using practical resources, we have explored the language of ‘full’, ‘half full’, ‘empty’, ‘nearly full’ and ‘nearly empty’.
We have also used the language of tall, thin, narrow, wide and shallow when comparing containers. We have encouraged the children to make direct comparisons by pouring from one container into another or count how many small pots fills a larger one.
Week Ending Friday 9th January 2026
 
On Friday we re-capped our knowledge of the Zones of Regulation and the different feelings that the four colours can represent.
 
We talked about what each feeling can look like and how it was useful to be able to be able to identify how people around us are feeling.
We played a game whereby the children had to identify how each of the characters were feeling and sort them into the correct colour 'Zone'.
We finished by making our own breathing stars which the children can as one of their own tools if they are ever feeling blue, red or yellow.