Noticeboard
- It is Red Nose Day on Friday 21st March 2025. To support Red Nose Day, children can bring in their red nose and wear it at playtimes with their uniform. We will not be collecting money, however if you would like to donate, you can do so online.
- 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.
- 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
A particular highlight this week is seeing the children’s motivation for writing. This week in their writing group, they wrote about who they were on World Book Day last week. The children were so engrossed in their writing and loved writing about all of their accessories! Alongside this, they have been performing the songs they have learnt during their music lessons over the past couple of terms and loved the dressing up clothes outside to aid their role play.
Tapestry observation request
The focus this week is Maths. We would like you to go on a 3D hunt with your child to find cubes, cuboids, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres. Please send us a photo of the objects you have found.
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 – Evanie
Buttercup Class – Toby
This week’s learning
We will be continuing our topic of ‘Places different from where we live’. For the next 3 weeks, we will be thinking about hot places. Our focus will be on the continent of Africa. For weeks 4 and 5, we will be immersing ourselves in the story Anansi and the Golden Pot, set in Ghana, before moving onto Handa’s Surprise, set in Kenya.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
To work on our self regulation skills this week we will be competing in obstacle races! They will have to listen carefully to each instruction, cheer on teammates and demonstrate perseverance skills.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: Anansi and the Golden Pot by Taiye Selasi and Tinuke Fagborun
We will be using a sequence of structured storytimes to engage children in these ways 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: forgive
We will give children the definition: to say to someone who has made you sad, “Let’s put that in the past and move on”.
It can make it easier for someone to forgive you if you say sorry.
Makaton:
Physical development
The children will have a second week at the firework display, practising their dance moves from last week and developing the routine further.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be revisiting the graphemes/ phonemes: ure, er
And the common exception word: her
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 about what we would wish for in a golden pot (following on from reading our Anansi book).
Maths
This week, the children will learn to recognise and name 3D shapes (cubes, cuboids, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres). They will be looking at the 2D shapes on the faces of the 3D shapes too.
Understanding the World
Computing – This week we will be focusing on the importance of managing screen time and having a break when using a screen.
Science – In science this week we will be walking around the school noticing the signs of summer. We will be looking for budding flowers, leaves regrowing and birds chirping. We will also be taking about hot climates and learning about the big 5 animals that can be found in Africa.
Religion and Worldviews
Continuing our question, “Why are some times special?” we will learn about what Christians celebrate at Easter.
We will also learn about the Muslim month of Ramadan.