Noticeboard

• If your child completes one of the sides of their bookmark, please alert your child’s class teacher.
• Children need to bring their book bag into school every day. If they do not have it on a Monday, they will not be able to have a new reading book. 
• We would like you to support your child to hold their pencil correctly when they are using them at home. Children should be using a tripod grip. Click here to see a BBC Bitesize video about how to hold a pencil.
• Please do not allow your child to play with the resources that are on the Reception patio in the morning. These have been carefully positioned and are there to support your child’s learning during the school day.

Celebrations

It has been a short week at school, but the children have had lots of fun. They have been working like the Curious Cat and making observations of their seeds that are starting to show signs of growing. They have also written a set of instructions to tell somebody else how to plant a seed. We have been very impressed with their scientific questioning skills and have been adding questions to the Curious Cat boards in our classrooms.

Tapestry – Observation request

The focus this week is: Understanding the World.

Please send us an observation of your child engaging with an age appropriate computer programme such as Purple Mash (using the login details that were glued into their reading logs at the beginning of the year) or 1-Minute Maths.

Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

Apple device Android device Desktop

This week’s learning

This week is our whole school enrichment week focusing on the King’s Coronation. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week, we will be continuing to learn about making friends.

Communication and Language

The children will be verbally sharing their news from over the (long!) weekend and we will listen to how different people celebrated in the coronation.

Word of the week: Coronation 

Physical Development

We will be practising our circus skills as we pretend to perform to the King! We will be sending and receiving different sized balls and scarves as we bounce, push, catch and juggle.

Literacy

This week we will continue our Phase 4 phonics, learning about adjacent consonants and how to blend words containing. These are not digraphs. For example damp, pink, sand. 

Common exception words: like, so, do

Writing: This week we will be writing about what we would do to help the world if we became a King or Queen. 

Maths

This week, we will be learning about addition. The children will be using resources to practically add quantities, then drawing pictures to represent the addition, finishing by writing addition number sentences. 

Understanding the World 

We will be logging into Purple Mash and drawing a picture of the King. We will be learning about King Charles and his coronation in History.

Religion and Worldviews

We will be learning about stories that show us good ways to live.

Expressive Arts and Design

This week we will be creating a collaborative whole school wall hanging based on the King’s Coronation and Toys over the last 70 years. The children will also have the chance to make a keyring. One side will be to show 70 years of the school and the other will show the King’s Coronation.