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- SUNCREAM – Please put suncream on your child before they arrive at school. The children play outside at all times of the day. The children will have a chance to top up their suncream independently during the school day if they need to, so please teach them how to put it on themselves.
- SPORTS DAY – Just a reminder that Sports Day will be taking place in the afternoon of Thursday 22nd June on the junior school field. Please can you ensure that your child has a PE kit (white t-shirt and shorts/ leggings) in school and appropriate sports footwear. They must also have a sun hat and be wearing all-day sun cream. The events will begin at 1:30pm and we will aim to finish at 3:15pm (after the parents race!).
- 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.
Term 6 Key Dates:
Wednesday 21st June – Children find out their new class teacher and have a story with them
Thursday 22nd June – Sports day 1:30 pm – 3:15pm
Wednesday 28th – Children go to their new classroom with their new teacher
Friday 30th June – Learning Shares in classrooms 9:10 – 9:45am
Wednesday 12th July – School reports to go home
Friday 21st July – Last day of school
Friday 1st September – Inset day
Monday 4th September – First day of Year 1
Celebrations
This week, the children have loved playing outside and using the water in their play. They have been learning mathematical concepts, exploring the properties of water and learning to make sense of their world, as well as using it to keep cool. Alongside this, the children have enjoyed using water colours to paint pictures of minibeasts. We have been very impressed with their observational skills.
Star of the Week
- Daffodil – Lucy
- Daisy – Frankie
- Buttercup – Amber
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is: Physical Development
We would like the children to try to skip using a skipping rope at home and count how many skips they can do in a minute.
Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices.
This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will read the Very Hungry Caterpillar and talk about how people change as we grow from babies to children to adults.
Communication and Language
This week, we will be starting a new key text called ‘Are you a snail?’. It is a non-fiction book which will help the children to find out about snails.
Word of the week: collaborate
Physical Development
We will be enjoying supporting our team, following instructions, and striving to be our best while enjoying Sports Day.
Literacy
This week we will become masters in our phase 4 phonics, we will be focusing on polysyllabic words e.g. farmyard
Common exception words: come, some
Writing: This week we will be writing about the ELLI characters and how they have supported our learning in Reception.
Maths
This week, we will be learning about division and multiplication. We will be doing this by grouping and sharing items. The children will use the language ‘equal’ and ‘unequal’ groups.
Understanding the World
We will be taking care of live minibeasts in our class and making observational drawings of our ladybird larvae. We will be talking about growing as we think about Year 1. We will be talking about our school community as we come together to enjoy sports day.
Religion and Worldviews
We will be remembering some of the learning we have done around our big question: “How should we live our lives?” to help inform teachers’ assessments.
Expressive Arts and Design
This week we will continue our Calypso Music lessons, learning to follow pictorial notation.