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• Friday 23rd May 2025 – Last day of term 5 and home clothes day. Please bring a donation to FHIS.
• 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

Of course, the highlight of everybody’s week was going to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. The children enjoyed consolidating their previous learning about African animals, as well as meeting a snake and African snail. They all listened to the zookeeper talking about the elephants and Daisy class learnt about the meerkats and some children fed them live crickets!

Star of the Week

Daisy Class – Alfred

Buttercup Class – Kit

Tapestry observation request 

This week, we would like you to find something to climb! We have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk and we would like the children to find something to climb (climbing frame, rocks, ladders) to pretend they are climbing towards the castle at the top of the beanstalk! The children love climbing the mountain at school. Please send us a photo or video of your child climbing.

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 are focusing on teamwork this week, the children will be given a task to see how well they can complete it when they work as a team. 

Communication and Language

Book of the week: Jack and the Beanstalk

Variety of versions of Jack and the Beanstalk – please do send in a named copy if you have one at home which your child would like to share.

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 developing the ability to move over and under apparatus. 

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will practise Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants: ft, st, lt, nt, st, lf, ld

And the common exception words: said, have

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 reporting back on their trip to Noah’s Ark.

Maths

This week, the children will continue to explore sharing and grouping.

Understanding the World

Children will be making their final observations of the beans they have been growing. We will also be comparing the two tomato plants we have been growing in Daisy and Buttercup Class to see who has won the growing competition! 

Religion and Worldviews

Continuing our question, ‘How should we live our lives?’ We will hear two Buddhist stories and discuss what messages they have.

Expressive arts and Design

In music this week the children will continue with pitch development. Learning and playing along with parts of a song.