Noticeboard

• See information below about Lucky Jars for the Mayfair!
• Next week, on 17th May 2023, Reception will be going to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm for their school trip. Please provide your child with a packed lunch on this day. 
• Bank holiday on Monday 8th May. 
• 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 wonderful week, celebrating and learning about the King’s Coronation and learning about our school being 70 years old. The children have enjoyed making part of a whole school wall hanging, making crowns, making key rings and writing about what they would do if they were the King for a day!

You might have noticed our new sensory garden on the patio area for the children to play with. There are wind spinners, CDs and a wind chime in the tree, glockenspiels on the fence, a mirror and smelly herbs for the children to explore their senses.

Star of the Week

Daisy Class – Jesse

Daffodil Class –

Buttercup Class –

Tapestry – Observation request

The focus this week is: Expressive Arts and Design. 

This Term our Topic is ‘In the Garden.’ Please send us an observation of your child creating an observational drawing of something in your garden, the park or other outside area. For example  flowers, trees or a landscape you have observed. You could watch Austin’s Butterfly at home too, which shows how to do observational drawing.

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

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This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Continuing our work on relationships, we will be thinking about how others feel if we use kind or unkind words.

Communication and Language

This week, we will be starting out new key text, Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be reading lots of different versions of the fairytale, so if you have a Jack and the Beanstalk book at home, please bring it into school so we can read it. 

Word of the week: character 

Physical Development

We will be exploring the best start and finish positions in running. We will also be learning about the best ways to catch in a controlled manner. For example from high above, below, from a partner etc.

Literacy

This week we will continue our phase 4 phonics, learning about adjacent consonants and how to blend words containing  ct, pt, xt, bl, br, cl, cr, dr. These are not digraphs. For example, broom, crowd, clap. 

Common exception words: come, there, were

Writing: This week we will be doing ‘Drawing Club’ to create our own character for Jack and the Beanstalk. 

Maths

This week, we will continue to learn about adding two numbers to make a total. The children will also be learning how to count on from a given number. 

Understanding the World 

We will be making observational drawings as our plants begin to grow. We will be watching and discussing seasons as Spring gets into full swing!

Religion and Worldviews

This week, we will be hearing two stories which tell Muslims good ways to live by caring for living creatures.

Expressive Arts and Design

This week in Dance we will be moving and dancing like animals in the Rainforest.