Reception

‘Slither and Slide’

October 6, 2018

This week we have been busy making snake sock puppets for our ‘Slither and Slide’ theme. The children used the glue spreaders to stick on eyes and hair, showing great precision and care when doing so. In maths, lots of comparative language was used when building walls and houses using duplo and blocks. Miss Heasman [...]

iSpace Information Evening

October 6, 2018

A reminder of our information evening next Thursday (11 October) about our exciting new programme on ‘wellbeing’ . The founder of iSpace will be giving the talk and its incredible benefits of helping your child understand and deal with emotions, making sure they are ‘mentally’ healthy and ready for the challenges of every day. It [...]

Harvest Festivals – Friday, 12 October

October 6, 2018

Parents are welcome to the Harvest Festival services in the chapel next week. Please could your child bring in something appropriate to be donated to our local homeless charity, Crawley Open House. They love to receive non-perishable items which can be stored for future use, as well as items for the residents such as toothbrushes [...]

Star of the Week

October 6, 2018

RD – Kai – Working hard to use his phonics and writing words in RWI RB – Willow – For accurate counting 1CF – Oliver – For working hard to recognise 2D shapes 1HL – Clea – For a super start to Copthorne! 2DP – Riann – For wonderful descriptive writing 2EPS – Anastasia – Positive mental attitude and [...]

Copthorne Prep Show Jumping 2018

September 30, 2018

Copthorne Prep were delighted to host their annual showjumping event today – great sportsmanship and individual talent were in abundance! Well done Mallory … our own showjumping talent this year! #nsea #felbridgeshowground

Making Fantastic Clay Birds!

September 29, 2018

This week has been a busy week in Reception. We continued our topic of Jungles and looked at things that ‘flap and fly’. The teachers were amazed at the children’s knowledge of birds and learned a fact or two themselves! The children made fantastic clay birds in art! The ambition, determination and craftsmanship of the [...]

Stars of the Week

September 29, 2018

Congratulations to the following children for being stars of the week! Rec JD – Sienna – Excellent phonics work and trying hard to write CVC words Rec JB – Olivia – Becoming more confident with school routines Yr 1 HL – Samuel – Good maths, working out properties of shapes Yr 1 CF – Henry [...]

MacMillan Coffee Morning and Tea Party

September 29, 2018

A huge thank you to Cherry Persad, ex parent, who came back to school to arrange the MacMillan Coffee Morning! And what a success it has been. Thank you to everyone who baked cakes, biscuits, muffins and other yummy items! We will let you know next week how much we raised for this very worthwhile [...]

‘Talk like a Pirate day’

September 21, 2018

This week in Reception we have been sorting animals according to their habitats. There has been lots of descriptive language to describe different animal features and homes. On Wednesday it was ‘Talk like a Pirate day’ and so as well as learning the letter sound ’p’ we enjoyed some pirate themed stories. Mrs Reynolds even [...]