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. When it rained last week, we noticed lots of children without coats. 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.

Key dates for Term 6

Please use the school calendar to find up-coming dates. There are some key dates below:

• Monday 16th June – Inset day. School closed to all children.
• Friday 20th June – Sports day (morning only). Parents are welcome to come support.
• Monday 30th June – Open afternoon (after school). An opportunity for you and your child to visit their new classroom and look at their books/work this year.
• Tuesday 22nd July – Last day of the school year.  

Celebrations

This week we have been on a summer walk around the school to spot the changing signs of the season. Unfortunately it hasn’t been very sunny but we still managed to spot almost all of the things on our tick sheet! We have also been enjoying some mini-beast poetry, spotting which poems are rhyming poems and which ones aren’t.

Star of the Week

Daisy Class – Leia

Buttercup Class – Ivy and Orla

Tapestry observation request 

This week, our observation focus is Communication and Language. Choose a minibeast and use some exciting adjectives to describe it on Tapestry. We will try to guess the minibeast from your description. For example, “This minibeast has 4 wings and a furry, stripy body. It makes delicious sticky honey. What is it?”

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 will be learning how yoga can help our bodies to stretch, relax and stay healthy.

Communication and Language

Book of the week – Are you a snail? By Judy Allen and Tudor Hunphries

We will be using a series of structured storytimes to build children’s language skills including: vocabulary, comprehension and expression.

Physical development

We will continue to practice activities for sports day.

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will practise mastery of Phase 4 polysyllabic words eg bunkbed, twisting, chimpanzee

And revisiting the common exception words: some, come

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 Fathers’ Day cards.

Maths

In Maths this week, we will be looking at composing and decomposing 2D shapes as well as finding 2D shapes within 3D shapes. 

Understanding the World

We are hoping that our ladybirds arrive soon so that we can watch them grow.

Religion and Worldviews

This week, we will hear the story from the Christian Bible of when Jesus met Zaccheus. This story shows Christians that people can change when they know Jesus and that Christians should show kindness to others.

Expressive arts and Design

The children will be having a go at painting minibeasts using water colour paints.