Noticeboard

• You may see some new faces at the classroom door – Miss Barrowcliffe (Daisy) and Miss Brunt (Buttercup). They are student teachers and will be welcoming the class and letting them out at the end of the day sometimes. Please be welcoming to them. 
• World book day – Thursday 6th March
• Parents evening – Tuesday 4th March and Thursday 6th March
• It is really important that you continue to read with your child every day. We are noticing that some parents have stopped reading regularly with their children. The children need daily practice to retain their learning. 
• Please alert your child’s class teacher when your child has filled up one side of their bookmark. 
• Please find the 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.

Celebrations

The children have come back to school full of enthusiasm to learn. They have embraced learning about cold places, especially learning penguin facts and writing about them! We hope you enjoyed open morning – we look forward to discussing your child’s progress at parents evening.

Tapestry observation request 

The focus this week is DT. This week, we are going to be writing instructions about how to make a pancake. Please send in any photographs of your child making pancakes and try to involve them in as much of the cooking as possible!

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. 

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Star of the Week 

Daisy Class – Aoife

Buttercup Class – Jola

This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week we will be focusing on the children’s listening and attention skills by reading a story and seeing if the children can retell the story and answer questions about what happened in the story. 

Communication and Language

Book of the week: The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins and Jane Chapman

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: investigation

Makaton:

Physical development

In PE this week the dance theme will be under the sea and the children will be using their bodies to make different shapes and explore different directions of movement. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will be revisiting the graphemes/ phonemes: oo, ar, or, ur

And the common exception words: they, all

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 be using our phonics learning to write instructions for making a pancake.

Maths

This week, we will be learning about number bonds to 10. By the end of the year, the expectation is that children will automatically recall some number bonds to 10. Therefore, we will be practising saying them, as well as using resources to show how 10 can be made. 

Understanding the World

Children will be recapping their knowledge about penguins and progressing their knowledge about cold places by exploring ice and observing what factors contribute to making the ice melt. 

Religion and Worldviews

This week, investigating our question, “Why are some times special?” we will be learning about shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras and Lent.

Expressive arts and Design

In art this week the children will learn about artist Mario Merz and explore his igloo sculptures made of metal and other materials. The children will work in groups to create their own igloos using modelling clay.