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• Please provide your child with a named plastic bag by Wednesday 29th November. This will be for their Nativity costume to go inside. We will be sending costumes that can be washed home on Wednesday to be washed. Please return them by Monday 4th December. 
• Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
• 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. 
• 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.

Dates

Wednesday 6th December 9:30am – Reception Nativity performance – We ask that only two adults per child attend to ensure there is enough space for everybody. The Reception children have worked really hard to learn the songs and their lines, so to reduce distractions, we ask that you find alternative child care for younger siblings. However, if you are unable to do this, please sit near the door so that you can take them out easily if needed.

Wednesday 6th December – Henleaze Christmas Fayre. This will be after school where members of the school Choir (Year 1 and 2 only) will perform to open the event.

Thursday 7th December 2pm – Henleaze Infants Christmas Carol Service – St Peter’s Church – All Welcome. Please email class emails if you are able to help walk us to the church and back.

Wednesday 13th December – Christmas Dinner

Friday 15th December – Christmas Parties and Last Day of Term – Wear your party clothes and/or a Christmas Jumper. Bring in a donation to FHIS. Next week we will put sign up sheets for donations of food to bring in for the parties.

Celebrations

Once again the children have been very creative in Reception, creating swarms of bees pictures using fingerprints. We were impressed with their ability to work as a team, especially to build lego models.

Star of the Week 

Daisy – Isabella

Buttercup – Jessica

Tapestry – Observation request

The focus this week is Literacy. 

We would love to see some perfectly-formed handwriting this week! Please send in an example of your child writing their name, where they have tried really hard with their correct letter formation. This could be with a colourful felt pen, on a label, note, card or even large scale with a paintbrush – as long as they have started in the correct place and formed each letter correctly!

You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers.

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

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This week’s learning

We will continue to learn about the ELLI Bee. Busy Bees work together to reach a goal. They have all the skills they need to work as part of a team. We will be using ‘Bee and Me’ as our key text. 

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

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be discussing houses and homes this week, with a focus on each home being unique and different. We will talk about how are own homes are special to us. 

Communication and Language 

We will continue to enjoy our book Bee and Me. We will continue to share the All About Me Box. We will be listening carefully and learning the words to the songs for our Nativity play.

Word of the Week: collaborate 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will be learning the graphemes/ phonemes: oo (as in book and as in moon), or, ar, ur and the common exception words: they, all

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

Writing:  We will be practising our letter formation for some special seasons writing.

Maths

This week, we will be introducing the concept of 0. Children will be learning about numbers 0-5. They will be subitising, identifying and representing 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. 

Understanding the World 

We will be discussing online safety this week, with an introduction to our online safety rules with a new mascot Safety Sam. 

Religion and Worldviews

We will be assessing the children’s learning in Religion + Worldviews during our “Who am I?” unit over terms 1 and 2.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will be making Christmas cards this week.