Noticeboard
- Monday 15th April – Start of Term 5
- Friday 3rd May – Inset day (no children attending school)
- Monday 6th May – Bank holiday Monday
- Thursday 9th May – After school cultural food event
- Saturday 18th May – Mayfair
- Wednesday 22nd May – Reception trip to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm
- 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
The children loved making a fruit salad with all your wonderful fruit donations- thank you. We had discussions about where the fruits were grown and how the different fruits smelt, then they all took turns chopping the fruits and mixing them into a large bowl to then share out. Most children enjoyed eating it!
Tapestry – Observation request
This week, we are asking for a PSHE observation. In Term 5, the whole school PSHE theme will be ‘relationships’. In Reception, we start by looking at the relationships in your own families. Therefore, we are asking for parents/carers upload a family photo onto Tapestry by Monday 15th April. Your child will have the opportunity to tell the other children in their class who is in their family, showing their photograph on the board.
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
Our new topic is My Family and Me and our learning objective this week is to identify some of the jobs we do in our family and how we feel like we belong.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: The Tiny seed by Eric Carle
This week, we will be describing events in the story in detail.
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: sowing
Physical Development
Our skill focus this week is to explore sending and receiving and reaction and response movements and we will do this by developing our bouncing ball skills.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be learning how to blend the adjacent consonants: sp, st, sw, tr, tw
We will learn words ending with the suffix -ed and the suffix – ing
We will learn the common exception words: when, out, what
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 about something we did in the holidays.
Maths
This week, we will be learning about numbers to 20 and counting further than 20. The children will be working hard to spot counting patterns.
Understanding the World
Inspired by our new text The Tiny seed each child will plant a seed which they will care for over the term and observe to see how it is developing. We will also be looking at what plants need inorder to grow.
Religion and Worldviews
We begin our new unit for Terms 5 and 6 “How should we live our lives?” by thinking about how what we do makes others feel, discussing some scenarios, and completing the sentence “It would make someone feel happy if I …”
Expressive Arts and Design
Our music focus this term is calypso, we will be listening to calypso music this week and identifying the different sounds we can hear.