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. 
• 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.

Phonics book return

We are looking to carry out an audit of our phonics books and are therefore asking that all phonics banded books are returned to school on Monday 31st March. Please can you support us by taking the time to have a thorough check around for any books that may have been mislaid around your home as well as handing in your child’s current books.

This will be a big undertaking and we are going to endeavour to get it completed during that week so that we can send books home again by the end of the week for the Easter holidays. 

We recognise that this means that you will not be able to read the phonics books with your child during this week. We therefore ask that you continue to keep the regular reading routine going by reading stories to your child in the time that you would normally hear them read. 

Thank you for your support with this.

Celebrations

The children have loved learning about 3D shapes this week. They have been using them to build towers with, while exploring the use of the shapes. They have also had opportunities to dip them in paint and use them to print with, showing the 2D shape faces (e.g. a cylinder has 2 circle faces). The adults have been impressed with the children’s ability to tell us about the properties of 3D shapes. Alongside this, they have immersed themselves in the new book, Anansi and the Golden Pot. They have enjoyed playing in the new travel agent/airport role play areas, cutting along the lines of spiders webs and putting the correct amount of pegs on spiders bodies!

Tapestry observation request 

The focus this week is Maths. 

The focus this week is Maths. A few weeks ago, we learnt about number bonds to 10. Ask your child to write down as many as they can remember.

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 – Hugo

Buttercup Class – Reuben

This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be learning to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions, as well as learning to give simple instructions. 

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:

Physical development

In our PE lesson, we will continue the unit of dance we have been learning. This week, we will be remembering and repeating actions, moving in time with the music. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will begin to learn Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants: ft, ld, lf, lk, lp, lt

And the common exception words: said, she, have, 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 be using our phonics learning to write our Mothers’ Day cards.

Maths

This week, the children will be learning about repeating patterns and have a change to independently continue a repeating pattern. We will also start to think about numbers that are above 10. The children will spot patterns such as 12 is made of 10 and 2, 13 is made of 10 and 3 etc.

Understanding the World

Geography – We will be locating, naming and talking about Ghana, linked to what we have read in the Anansi and the Golden pot story. 

Expressive Art and Design

Music – We will be performing different rhythm patterns in unison as a class ensemble and try to maintain a pulse within a group performance. 

Art – We will be painting safari animals and backgrounds on separate pieces of paper. We will then combine them to make 3D artwork! 

Religion and Worldviews

We will look back at what we have learned as we have explored our question “Why are some times special?” and assess children’s learning.