Noticeboard

• If you have any cardboard recycling that could be used for building models, please give it to your child’s class teacher on Friday morning.
• Please alert your child’s class teacher if your child finishes one side of their bookmark so that they can receive their first certificate in assembly. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here. 
• 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. 
• 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 been loving learning about maps. They have made their own amazing maps of the patio area, as well as a whole class map too. We also had the first visit from a parent who talked to us about her job. She told us about being a ophthalmologist. The children listened really well and asked questions like the curious cat.

Star of the Week 

Daisy – Samson

Buttercup – Miloni

Tapestry – Observation request

The focus this week is Literacy. We would love to see your child using their phonics to write some labels for things in your home (could be a photo of an object with their writing on a piece of paper or post-it note, or labels written on a whiteboard) eg box, chair, shelf. 

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

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week, we are going to be thinking about being kind, The children will be reflecting on a time when they have been kind and a time when somebody has been kind to them too.

Communication and Language 

Book: Follow that Map! By Scot Ritchie

We always encourage the children to engage in story times and non-fiction books in these ways:

Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding. 

Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what is being said. 

Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences. 

Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives. 

Describe some events in detail. 

Word of the Week: landscape

Physical Development 

We are continuing with our gymnastics syllabus and using the large apparatus to explore shape making on different levels. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will be revisiting the graphemes/ phonemes: ai,  ee,  igh,  oa 

And the common exception words: was,  you

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 using our phonics learning to write a list of different jobs people do.

Maths

This week, we will be exploring odd and even numbers. The children will notice patterns and identify numbers that are odd and numbers that are even. Alongside this, they will be learning about doubles.

Understanding the World 

We will be going on a local walk looking for key features of our community. The children will have an opportunity to take a photo on an ipad of things they see. 

Religion and Worldviews

This week, continuing to explore our question “Why are some times special?” we will be learning about prayer times in Islam.

Expressive Arts and Design

For D&T this week we will be using what we have learnt from our walk of the local area to recreate shops and other buildings out of junk modelling. We will all get out models together to make a collaborative 3D picture of the local area.