Noticeboard
- We would love to see photos of any gardening/growing you are doing at home – please send these in via Tapestry.
- If your child is going to a sports after school club (e.g. Shine), please provide them with a sports kit to wear, rather than asking them to take their PE kit. PE kits should be in school every day and should be left in school.
- We will be doing PE outside (weather permitting) in Term 5 and 6. Children can wear their school shoes to run around outside or you can provide them with a pair of trainers in their PE kit.
- As we move into the summer terms, you might be thinking about getting your child some new summer shoes. Please note that our uniform policy is: “Footwear suitable for school activities. Open toe sandals should not be worn due to health and safety concerns”.
- We have noticed that some of the children are not understanding what they are reading. When you read with your child, please make sure they re-read the sentence fluently after decoding the words. Click here to see the video that was shared at the beginning of the year. When you are reading with your child, please make sure you are asking them questions so that they understand what they are reading. You can find example questions below. You can also learn more about comprehension in the video above at 6 minutes.
- 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.
Dates
- 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. You will receive an email about this on Wednesday 24th April – please look out for it!
Celebrations
We’ve welcomed the children back to school with some very spring-like weather. They’ve loved playing outside in the sun (when it has peeped through!). The adults in school have enjoyed hearing about what the children did during the Easter holiday and every child has written about their holiday in their writing book.
Star of the Week
Daisy – Maggie
Buttercup – Harry
Tapestry – Observation request
This week, our focus is Maths. Your child will have come home with a number formation sheet. We have noticed that lots of children are writing numbers the wrong way round. Please sit with your child to practice their number formation to make sure they start and finish in the correct places (the sheet will help you to know where these are!). You could do this on the sheet or in a different creative way e.g. using paint, writing them in sand, using chalk, using water or paint brushes on a wall.
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 considering the qualities that make a good friend.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: The Tiny seed by Eric Carle
This week, we will be retelling and acting out the story.
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: setting (the place where a story happens)
Physical Development
Ball skills will continue with practicing the skill of sending and receiving balls as well as juggling and bouncing.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be following the Phase 4 Mastery lessons.
We will practise the adjacent consonants ft, mp, lt, nt, st, ld, lf
We will revisit the common exception words: said, have
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 planting a seed.
Maths
This week, the children will be learning about 1 more and starting to think about larger addition number sentences. Alongside this, we will be refreshing our memory about number bonds to 5 and 10 and think about the composition of numbers to 10.
Understanding the World
We will be continuing our observations of the plants we have planted to see how they are progressing. Children will be contributing their observations to a whole class collaborative book.
Religion and Worldviews
We will continue exploring our question, “How should we live our lives?” by thinking about who (important people in our lives such as parents, carers, teachers, and for those whose families have a faith, religious teachers) and what (class rules, story books, holy books for people with a faith) help us know good ways to live.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be making observational drawings of plants and flowers.