**School will be closed for children on Monday 9th October 2023 for an INSET day**

Noticeboard

• This week, as part of our learning, we will be going on a welly walk around the school grounds. Buttercup will be going on Tuesday and Daisy on Thursday. Please provide your child with a pair of wellington boots/appropriate shoes in a bag on the specified day. 
• Our Reception Christmas play will be on Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 9:30am. 
• Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
• Please bring in any donations of dried/canned food for the Salvation Army’s harvest collection by Monday 16th October 2023. The collection will go to support the Salvation Army’s work with the homeless and vulnerable people in our city. 
• 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. Please make sure the reading books come into school each day with your child. 
• Your child will have come home with a Read for the Stars bookmark. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here. 
• We would like to invite you to our Phonics learn-a-long, where you can take part in a lesson alongside your child on 18th October 2023 at 9:00 – 9:30am.
• Please make sure your child has their PE kit on their peg. Buttercup and Daisy Class will do PE on Wednesdays routinely (but these might change if the hall is in use on specific weeks). 
• 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

This week, the children have loved exploring colour mixing. They enjoyed mixing the primary colours together to make new colours.

The children also took part in their first PE lesson and have been playing outside lots while the weather is still nice!

This weeks learning

This week, we will start to learn about the ELLI Unicorn. The Unicorn can be imaginative and come up with creative solutions. We will be using the story ‘Sugarlump and the Unicorn’ as our key text.

To find out more about our ELLI animals, please click here. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week, the children will be learning about their rights. They will be thinking about treating others with respect. 

Communication and Language 

We will continue to share the All About Me Box in class (every child will have a turn). We will be reading Sugarlump and the Unicorn and recalling the events in the story.

Word of the Week: segmenting

Physical Development

We will be supporting the children to develop and apply footwork with control and fluency. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will be learning the graphemes/ phonemes: h,  b, f, ff

And the common exception words: I,  no

We will practice blending phonemes to read and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.

Writing:

This week we will be practising writing our names, focusing on pencil grip, letter formation and only having capital letters at the beginning of our names.

Maths

This week, the children will be learning about numbers 1, 2 and 3. They will learn to find groups of 1, 2 and 3, subitise and match the quantity to the numeral. 

Understanding the World 

We will be going on a ‘Welly Walk’ around the school grounds to spot natural changes as the season changes. 

Religion and Worldviews

We will be thinking about making good choices, and hearing a story from the Bible about Jonah.

Expressive Arts and Design

The children will each get a chance to make a unicorn mask. They will explore different media including glitter, paint and collage. They will then be able to use these in their imaginative play.