Noticeboard

• 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

This week, the children have loved seeing the seeds (they planted last week) germinate. They have all had a go at doing an observational drawing of a bunch of flowers. We have been impressed at their attention to detail! We hope you all have a wonderful long bank holiday weekend!

Tapestry observation request 

This week, we have been learning a range of names for plants and we have been on a walk around our school site to identify and name plants like daffodils, magnolia tree, buttercups, daisies. Please go outside with your child and see if you can identify and name a range of plants. Please send us photos and your child will be asked to ‘teach’ the names of the plants to their class!

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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This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week’s Personal, Social and Emotional Development is about ‘What makes a good friend?’. We will be looking to understand the characteristics that make a good friend and think about why it may be difficult for others to be a good friend all of the time. 

Communication and Language

Book of the week: 

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

We will be reading and acting out the story, using some echo reading where children copy their teacher’s expressive reading.

Physical development

In P.E this week we will be continuing with Gymnastics, practicing jumping and landing safety from a height. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will learn Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants: gl. gr, pl, pr, sc, sk, sm, sn

And the common exception words: little, one

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 dictated sentences connected with our story.

Maths

This week we will be learning about subtraction within 10. The children will be learning about ‘taking away’ for the first time. They will use physical objects to support their mathematical thinking. 

Understanding the World

In this week’s Understanding the World we will be continuing to make observations of our seeds, noticing any changes that may be happening. We will also be talking about the similarities and differences in plants. 

Religion and Worldviews

This week, we will learn what two Muslim stories have to tell Muslims about good ways to live.

Expressive arts and Design

We will be doing Music in Expressive arts and Design this week, learning to discriminate between changes in pitch, recognising high, middle and low sounds. We will be exploring high and low sounds using our voices and instruments.