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• 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

We have loved hearing about what the children have been doing over the Easter holidays and they have written a few sentences about what they have done. The children have also enjoyed being immersed in the story ‘Mrs Noah’s Garden’. 

Tapestry observation request 

The focus this week is Maths. The Early Learning Goal (end of year expectation) is to verbally recall some number bonds to 10. For example “one and nine”, “5 and 5”. Please practise this at home with your child. You could record a video of them recalling them and send it to us via Tapestry. 

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 – Frankie 

Buttercup Class – Leia

This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week, we will be teaching the children why sharing is important. They will start to think about the perspectives of others in our classes.

Communication and Language

Book of the week: Mrs Noah’s Garden 

The particular words we will be focusing on from the book this week are: shallow drills, germinate, marvelled, blossomed  

We have already read the story twice to the children and will read it two more times this week. The third time the children will enjoy it and take part in some drama. The fourth time, they will be focusing on echo reading – fluently saying the words in the story. 

Physical development

This week, we will continue to do gymnastics in PE. The children will develop their balancing skills and safely use apparatus.

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will learn Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants: bl, br, cl, cr, dr, fl, fr,

And the common exception words: were, there

We will practise blending phonemes to read, and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.

Writing: This week, the children will be writing instructions for planting seeds. 

Maths

This week we will be learning about addition. The children will also be thinking about number bonds to 10. 

Understanding the World

This week, children will be learning to use specific plant vocabulary e.g. leaves, roots, stem, petal. They will also be taught to name some common plants / vegetation and talk about simple similarities and differences in plants. We will continue to observe the beans we planted last week as they grow!

Religion and Worldviews

As we investigate our Big Question, “How should we live our lives?” We will learn about the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. We will also learn Makaton signs for ‘belief’ and ‘worldview’ as we explore this subject.

Expressive arts and Design

The children will have the opportunity to use their observational skills to draw an accurate picture of a flower or plant.