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- Thank you for coming to parents evening appointments. We really enjoyed talking to you about how your child has settled into school life and their progress in Term 1.
- Friday 15th November – Children in Need – Children are invited to wear odd socks with their school uniform and bring in a donation for Children in Need.
- Thursday 21st November – 9:00 – 9:45am Writing at Henleaze Infant School – Session for Parents.
- Check the school calendar for Christmas dates for our Reception performance and carol service.
- Please find the new lunch menu by clicking here.
- Please use the school calendar to find up-coming dates.
- Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
- 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.
Purple Mash competition
Purple Mash are holding a Festive Christmas Card Competition and we would love it if pupils from Henleaze Infant School could take part in this at home; we look forward to seeing your entries! Please click this link for full details on how to enter.
Please note: School staff don’t get notified of entries and as they are on public display boards names are not added alongside them. Therefore, please could you additionally email a copy of their design to your child’s class teacher so that we can celebrate these in class.
Celebrations
We have had a brilliant 4 days in school and have been impressed with how well the children have retained their phonics learning over the holiday. The children have enjoyed learning about the ELLI Tortoise and we have been noticing more perseverance in their play too.
Star of the Week
Daisy Class – Ezra
Buttercup Class – Clémence
Tapestry observation
The focus this week is Communication and Language. We would love to see a short clip of your child re-telling the story of the Hare and the Tortoise in their own words.
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This week’s learning
This week, we continue learning about the ELLI Tortoise. The ELLI Tortoise doesn’t give up and keeps going when he finds things tricky. We talk to the children about ‘perseverance’, so please use this term with your child at home. Our key text to support learning is The Hare and the Tortoise.
To find out more about our ELLI animals, please click here.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week is Friendship week, we will be using the story I’m (almost) Always Kind to discuss what kindness looks like and support the child to identifying and make kind choices.
Communication and Language
We will continue to share our All About Me Box
We will hear the story of the Hare and the Tortoise again and act it out together.
Word of the week: perseverance
Makaton: we will revisit all the signs we have learned so far
Physical development
Lesson 2 of our unit: introduction of PE skills focusing on following instructions and stopping safely when moving around the space.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be learning the graphemes/ phonemes: y, z, zz, qu
And the common exception words: we, be
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 practise segmenting the phonemes (sounds) to write some of the simple animal names from the Hare and Tortoise story eg pig, rat, using the phonics we have been learning so far.
Maths
This week, we will be focusing on numbers 4 and 5. We will subitise using these numbers and look at different representations.
Understanding the World
We will be using our senses to describe the wonders of bonfire night.
Expressive arts and Design
We will be making mosaic tortoises this week using paper plates and sticking on different shaped pieces of card.
Religion and Worldviews
Continuing our Big Question “Who am I?” we will be thinking about feelings of joy, wonder and peace and sharing what gives us those feelings.