This week the children have been exploring London through the text, All aboard the London Bus! Each day the children have role played boarding a London bus, including having their ticket punched by the conductor and travelling to a different part of London. The children have enjoyed exploring Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, The Underground, London Bridge and finally The Tower of London to see the crown jewels. As part of our learning the children have created their own London Bus and wrote independent sentences about travelling on a London Bus, remembering to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops! Well done, Reception. At Roebuck we are writers!

This week the children have been very excited about our new topic 'Let's Explore'. We began our new topic by exploring our local area and created a mind map of what makes Stevenage special. We identified lots of places including, the football stadium, the cinema, the shops, the theatre, Marks and Spencer's, Fairlands Park and many more! We then looked at some photographs that had been taken in and around Stevenage and tried our hardest to recognise where they were taken. We also used Google Earth to zoom into the school and different places around Stevenage. The children all enjoyed contributing to a class display of our local area and made different types of homes, shops and buildings. During our CIL time, some children have been busy writing independently about what they see in our local area. What a fun week it has been! At Roebuck we are geographers! 

This week in Literacy, we have been reading 'Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk'. Grandma Fantastic has been giving the children some tricky words, but the children have been using their robot arms to sound them out amazingly. We have been describing the taste of jellybeans and was even able to taste some to give us some ideas. The children came up with words like 'sticky, sweet, tasty, yummy, gooey'. We based our art lesson on their Literacy book this week and made our very own beanstalk. The children were brilliant at following instructions and were really pleased of their beanstalk artwork. 

This week has been a busy one in Reception with lots of different activities going on. A highlight this week has been learning about Bonfire Night and when it is celebrated. We learnt that we celebrate Bonfire Night because in 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes and his friends decided to try and blow up the English government, along with King James 1. We celebrate to remember his plot failed with fireworks. We made our own firework pictures and challenged ourselves to use our phonics to write 'explosion' words like 'bang, fizz, twirl and pop'. In Reception we are 'writers!'

This week the children enjoyed a circus skills workshop! Our school hall was transformed into a big top and a performer called Lucas Jet dazzled us with his jaw dropping tricks, including riding on the tallest bike we had ever seen! We also got to take part in our own individual workshop where Lucas taught us how to hold a spinning plate whilst walking and how to perform tricks with bouncing sticks. We were all amazing and impressed our teachers with our perseverance and excellent listening skills. Well done, Reception!

This week has been Masterchef week at Roebuck Academy. In Reception our text for the week has been Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen, so the children decided that they would like to make their own chocolate cake. Working together they measured ingredients, mixed and cooked. The cooking sessions generated lots of discussion about materials and changes and generated lots of great vocabulary. The chocolate mug cakes the children made were magnificent and luckily there were plenty of cakes so everyone could taste how delicious they were. At Roebuck Academy we are bakers!