Noticeboard
- 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
We have had an amazing, fun filled week at school! On Wednesday, Reception went for their walk around the local area. The children spotted lots of significant places in the community and thought about why it is important that local amenities are close to where people live. When we got back to school, we drew a map of the walk and built models of the buildings, thinking about what they looked like. On Friday, Jenny Jenkins came into school to talk to us about being an artist. Not only did she tell us about her job, but the children were also able to be involved in a workshop, where each of them made a cat sculpture and a special place for it to live.
Star of the Week
Daisy – Oliver I
Buttercup – Charlie
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is Maths. You have two choices this week, or you may choose to do both!
- Download the 1-Minute Maths app and ask your child to play the subitising games. The app is totally free and it’s available for use on Apple and Android devices. Take a photo of your child playing the game or a screenshot and submit it as an observation.
- Choose at least 3 objects from your house and order them from shortest to longest. Take a photo of the items in the correct order and submit it as an observation.
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.
This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week the children are going to be thinking about jobs they might like to do in the future and what skills they might need to have that job.
Communication and Language
Book: Martha maps it out by Leigh Hodgkinson
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: occupation
Physical Development
We are travelling through the jungle this week and moving around like different animals exploring shapes we can make on the different apparatus.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be revisiting the graphemes/ phonemes: oo (as in moon and book), 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 using our phonics learning to write a sentence or two about places we have seen on our local walk.
Maths
This week, we are going to be learning about length and height. The children will be exploring the concepts and comparing items for length and height. On Wednesday, we will be doing an exciting whole class investigation where we will compare the length of our feet! We will find out who in each class has the longest foot, and who has the shortest!
Understanding the World
We will be having a discussion about technology, linking it to our walk around the local area and thinking how the different places of work we saw uses different technologies.
We will also be reading our new key text Martha Maps it out and just like Martha we will e curious cats exploring the school grounds on our welly walk spotting the signs of winters. The children will have the opportunity to take photos of what they discover and and use them to create a picture or map of the wintery school grounds.
Religion and Worldviews
We will continue exploring our big question, “Why are some times special?” by learning about different wedding celebrations.
Expressive Arts and Design
In Music this week the children will be using claves to tap in time to the rhymes we are learning for Handa’s surprise.
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