This term Reception have been busy studying all things dinosaur related.  

We looked at the life of Mary Anning, who was a pioneering fossil collector from Lyme Regis. We found out that when she was alive girls did not routinely go to school, but despite this, she became a world-famous palaeontologist.  We also learnt all about the different types of dinosaurs; sorted them using a Venn diagram into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and created a pictogram to find out our favourite dinosaur type.  

The girls made their own fossils using modelling clay and practised being a palaeontologist digging up dinosaur bones and examining them.  The absolute highlight though, was a workshop from Rentadinosaur where pupils could learn even more dinosaur facts, touch some real fossils and meet some dinosaurs up close! 

Written by Mrs Sally Brown, Junior School Reception Teacher