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 (see poster below)
- 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!
Star of the Week
Daisy – Abeera
Buttercup – Fin
Celebrations
This week, the adults have been really impressed by the children’s independent writing. We do one writing adult directed task per week and some children have decided to continue developing their writing skills during their independent learning time.
Tapestry – Observation request
This week, we are asking for a Science observation. At school, we have been doing some observational drawings of flowers. The children have learnt to look carefully at the flowers and draw exactly what they can see. Find something natural (e.g. shell, stick, fruit) at home or out and about and ask your child to do an observational drawing of it.
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
The children are continuing with the relationships topic and thinking about how we can solve problems we might have with our friends.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: The Tiny seed by Eric Carle
This week, we will be building on our familiarity with 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: password
Physical Development
Ball skills will be progressed this week with sending and receiving to a partner.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be following the Phase 4 Mastery lessons.
We will practise the adjacent consonants dr, cl, bl, lk, lp, xt, st, sm, sn,
We will revisit the common exception words: like, so, do
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 begin to write about a hobby, sport or activity we enjoy doing. This will be part of our work on identity and belonging to be explored further in our enrichment week 7th – 10th May.
Maths
This week, we will be learning about subtraction. Children will learn that this is the inverse of addition. They will use concrete resources to physically take items away from a group to find how many are left.
Understanding the World
Children will be tasked with creating a digital picture of a flower this week on an iPad. We will also be learning about the importance of keeping your information safe online.
Religion and Worldviews
Continuing our question: “How should we live our lives?” We will be finding out who is important to answer this question for Muslims – their Prophet Muhammad.
Expressive Arts and Design
In music this week we will be continuing to learn our calypso song.