Welcome to Reception at Great Coates Academy. ‘Success and happiness for every child’ - proud to be part of the Harbour Learning Trust.

Joined December 2021
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Jun 11
Today we are celebrating Empathy Day. We made our Empathy Masks and we have been talking about showing understanding of other people's feelings. We are going to try to show empathy towards our friends.@PrimaryGreat @EmpathyLabUK
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May 16
Yesterday we took part in the super kind community project where the whole school planted a seed. We are going to grow a flower then donate it to the local community. @PrimaryGreat #gcpsuperkind #gcppshe #gcpcommunity
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Today we were kindly gifted some magic beans from Mr Baxter, luckily we knew just what to do and we planted them in pots of soil, watered them and put them in the sunlight. We’re looking forward to seeing our beans grow. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcpscience
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With only a few weeks left until PSC, phonics club is in full swing. @PrimaryGreat @GcpYear1
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The children in FS2 have made their own vegetable soup this week, after reading Oliver’s vegetables and learning where vegetables comes from we were inspired to try something new. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy
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Apr 24
Our topic this term is all about growing and today we’ve been talking about vegetables and where they come from. We made a chart of our favourite vegetable in reception - which is broccoli 🥦 @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears
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Mar 20
The children in reception have had some little fluffy visitors today 8 little chicks have hatched at @PrimaryGreat and the children couldn't wait to give them a cuddle. #gcpearlyyears #gcpscience #gcpDANCE
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Mar 12
Fabulous work at phonics club tonight, working super hard to practise their reading after school! Well done @GcpYear1 #gcpreading
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Mar 12
FS2 Mummy’s can you find your portrait drawn by your child to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend? The children have loved drawing you for our guessing game. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcpdelightandjoy
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A fantastic world book day in reception. We’ve been doing story hunts, creating book covers and making a beanstalk from Jack and the beanstalk. We were also lucky enough to receive our own book today take home. @PrimaryGreat @GCPreading #WorldBookDay2026 #gcpreading
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For National storytelling week we retold and acted out the story Monkey Puzzle. It’s one of our favourites in reception. The children did a great job of acting and narrating the story. @PrimaryGreat @GCPreading #gcpreading #NationalStoryTellingWeek
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Here are some of our number day activities today! The children had a great day exploring numbers and of course there was plenty of talk about 67! @PrimaryGreat #gcpmaths #gcpnumberday
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Jan 30
Well done to Cohen whose fantastic writing has earned him a place in the book of excellence. Keep up the hard work. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears ##gcpwriting
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Jan 14
Practising our subitising skills, rolling the dice and finding arrangements of the same number on our boards.@PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcpambition
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Jan 12
This week we are reading The Emperor's Egg. The children have been busy this morning painting and making play dough penguins as part of their challenges in the classroom. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcpambition
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9 Dec 2025
Busy at the post office role play today, sending and delivering Christmas post to each other @PrimaryGreat #gcpealyyears #gcpdelightandjoy
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20 Nov 2025
The children in reception have been exploring the snow and ice this morning, they really enjoying crunching the snow to make footprints and then mixing colours when painting the ice. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyears
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19 Nov 2025
This week we're celebrating birthdays, we've been making birthday cakes in our creative area today. @PrimaryGreat #gccpearlyyears
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14 Nov 2025
This week in PE we've practising rolling and stopping the ball with a partner. @PrimaryGreat #gcpearlyyears #gcppe
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13 Nov 2025
In maths this week we've been comparing, today we had dot plates and had to compare our amounts with our friends using the language 'more than' and 'fewer than'. @PrimaryGreat #gcpmaths #gcpearlyyears
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