St John Fisher Roman Catholic Primary School, Rochdale

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• Kandinsky and Bees!
  The children learnt about the artist Wassily Kandinski and recreated his Concentric Circles piece of art. Reception Class were also learning about bees.
• Reception Class Robots
  Reception Class have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. The children listened to the story of The Hungry Caterpillar and used the AR app, My Caterpillar. Reception Class were also introduced to our resident robots - Beebot.
• Clitherow Feast Day
  The children in Clitherow house enjoyed wearing their own clothes, chocolate biscuits and an extra playtime to celebrate their Feast Day.
• The Last Supper
  Reception have been learning about Lent, Holy week and Easter. Today we re-enacted the Last Supper and had the bread rolls that we made yesterday and juice.
• Making Bread
  Today we listened to the story of the Little Red Hen and then made Bread like she did.
• Our Church
  Some of the children in reception class built a church using the bricks. They used the new little figures as people in and going to church as well as singing the hymns.
• Easter
  Reception Class have discussed what reminds them of Easter. The children have created their own Easter scene.
• Design and Technology super learning day
  Today we enjoyed our Design and Technology super learning day. We designed and made Troll puppets, masks and paper flowers and even made a troll form playdough.
• Forest School and the Prayer Garden
  Today as part of Forest School we looked for signs of spring. On the way back to class we visited the Prayer Garden where we displayed some of our Lenten Promises and decorated the garden with purple ribbons.
• World Book Day
  Reception enjoyed wearing their PJs for world book day and sharing their favourite story book with each other.