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• Please look out for an email about our school trip to Noah’s Ark.
• For the next 2 weeks, Jack and the Beanstalk is our key text. There are lots of different versions of the story, so if you have the story of Jack and the Beanstalk (or an alternative like Jim and the Beanstalk), please give it to your child to bring into school and we will read them during our story times. Please name the book and alert the adults that your child has brought a copy into school.
• 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

It has been another short week at school! The children have loved watching their beans grow shoots and roots! They have been looking after them by watering them. Alongside this, they have been learning about subtraction and have been using physical resources to ‘take away’.

Tapestry observation request 

In school over the past few weeks we have been doing observational drawings of plants and flowers. We would like your child to do an observational drawing at home. You could go outside and draw a picture of a tree, bush, flowers or a bunch of flowers inside…or any other plants you can see! Please remind your child that they need to draw exactly what they see and use the word ‘observation’ with them as they have heard it multiple times in school. Please send us a picture of their drawing so we can show it in 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

We reflecting on what makes a good friend from last week and continuing the discussion thinking about how we can be good friends to others.

Communication and Language

Book of the week: Jack and the Beanstalk – different versions

We will be retelling the story using helicopter stories.

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.

Physical development

In PE this week we are continuing with gymnastics, developing our rolling and rocking skills. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will learn Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants: sp, st, sw, tr, tw,

And the common exception words: when,  out,  what

We will practice 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 sequencing and retelling Jack and the Beanstalk..

Maths

This week we will be learning about sharing. The children will be exploring sharing using the vocabulary equal and unequal and they will share objects into equal and unequal groups. The children will be using physical objects and working together in pairs to support their mathematical thinking. 

Understanding the World

We will be continuing our seed growing observations in science. 

In commuting this week we are discussing the how to safely save your work on the computer and they will be creating digital pictures of flowers or trees. 

Religion and Worldviews

Exploring our question, ”How should we live our lives?” We will be thinking about stories which tell us good ways to live e.g. “Whoops but it wasn’t me!” – a Charlie and Lola story about saying sorry and telling the truth.