Noticeboard
- Monday 25th March – Please bring in the fruit donations that you signed up for on the board outside the classrooms.
- Thursday 28th March – Last day of term and home clothes day – optional donation for FHIS
- Friday 29th March – Bank holiday
- Monday 15th April – Start of Term 5
- 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
What a busy week we’ve had. This week, we went on a spring walk around the school site. The children spotted lots of different signs of spring including buds, daffodils, flowers, dandelions, daisies and birds tweeting. Alongside this, the children enjoyed going to the Easter experience at Cairns Road church. The children learnt about the Easter story in an age appropriate way. The adults have been especially impressed with the childrens writing this week. They have been rewriting the story Handa’s Surprise and lots have written the whole thing, some spanning over 3 pages!
Star of the Week
Daisy – Lily
Buttercup – Ceci
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is Maths. A few weeks ago, we learnt about number bonds to 10. Ask you child to write down as many as they can remember.
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 we will be discussing with the children what a stranger is and how to stay safe if a stranger approaches them.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: Handa’s surprise by Eileen Browne
This week, we will be using the children’s creativity to invent helicopter stories.
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: instructions
Physical Development
The children will be developing the skill of rotation on the large and medium apparatus.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be learning how to blend the adjacent consonants: gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sm, sn
We will learn the common exception words: little, one
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 use our learning in phonics to help us to write instructions for making a fruit salad
Maths
This week, we will be learning about numbers beyond 10. The children will be focusing on composition of numbers between 10 and 20 (e.g. 10+5=15) , learning about their patterns and verbally counting beyond 20.
Understanding the World
We will be collating all of the knowledge we have learnt from the hot and cold places topic we have been researching this term and using what we have learnt to categorise where different animals might live across the globe.
Religion and Worldviews
This week, we will be learning about the colourful springtime Hindu festival of Holi.
We will also have our year group assembly on Easter traditions and celebrations in the UK.
Expressive Arts and Design
The children will be making observational drawings, using oil pastels, of fruit baskets from the donated fruits this week. The children will be encouraged to experiment with colour, design, texture, form and function.
The children will then be preparing a fruit salad from the fruits and eating it during snack time.
