Noticeboard

• Please can your child bring in some junk modelling throughout the week as we are going to be using them during our DT lesson to make bug hotels.
• 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.
• Our wonderful students Miss Brunt and Miss Barrowcliffe finish with us on Wednesday 25th June. We would just like to say a massive thank you to them for all of their amazing work, they have been such an asset to Reception and they have built brilliant relationships with the children. We wish them all the best for the future.

Belonging day

Based on the success of last year’s cultural week, we will be hosting ‘Belonging day’ in our school on Wednesday 16th July. There will be a day of activities in classes and year groups that celebrate who we are and how we belong to different communities. Children can wear home clothes and traditional cultural dress may be included in this.

Key events:

-After school language share competition

-Class food share (during school hours)

-Multi-lingual library donation drop

How parents and carers can support:

Sign up to the food share sheets in the classrooms . If you have a particular food or dish (home made or bought) that your family enjoys at home and may be part of your culture or heritage, you are welcome to bring this in. We ask that NO NUTS are included in any dish and if your dish is homemade, that you provide a list of allergens. Class teachers use packaging on bought food to identify allergens. Please do not feel that you have to provide 30 portions of the same item! Small ‘tasters’ are great or please pair up with another family if you want to bring something bigger.

Previous examples of food share include:

-Sweetcorn fritters (originating from Jamaica)

-Gingerbread biscuits (originating from the Netherlands)

-Pizza slices (originating from Italy)

-Shortbread bites (originating from Scotland)

If you have any queries, please just ask the class teacher.

Volunteer to read a story or teach a song to your child’s class in a different language:

At Henleaze Infants, we are passionate about celebrating our cultures and heritage. We would love to hear stories in home languages and find out more about about songs and traditions from around the world. Please email daffodil@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk if you can come in and share a story or a song from home at 8.50am. 

Make a contribution to our Multi-Lingual library: 

Do you have children’s books in different languages? If so, we will gladly accept donations of good quality children’s books. Please do pop the language it is written in, in the inside cover and which family it is from. There will be a box outside the school office for these to go in.

After-school ‘Meet and Greet’ competition:

On the main playground after school, there will be a stall where, if you can come and say ‘Hello!’ in 3 different languages, we will enter your name in a prize draw to win a bilingual storybook!

Click here for a copy of this information

Celebrations

It has been a very hot week! The children have loved looking at our larva this week and making observations. We are excited to watch them turn into pupa and then adult ladybirds. They have been enjoying water play outside, keeping themselves cool and having great fun. An obvious highlight of the week was sports day, thank you for your support. We hope you enjoyed watching your child take part.

Tapestry observation request 

This week in PE we are practising dribbling with a ball. Can you send in a video of you having a go at dribbling a ball?

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, the children will be learning about being a safe pedestrian and how to cross a road.

Communication and Language

Book of the week: Tad by Benji Davies

The children will be learning 8 key words from our story: murky, glide, gulp, hope, shallow, except, sank, belonged.

Physical development

We will be starting to learn some ball skills and thinking about dribbling a ball.

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will practise mastery of Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants:  pl, pr, sc, sp, sk, sw, tr, ft, st and some polysyllabic words

And revisiting 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 their point of view for their report.

Maths

In Maths this week, we will be practicing giving instructions to build and describing positions as well as exploring maps. We will be practicing making maps from models and recreating maps of familiar places. 

Understanding the World

We will continue to watch our larva grown and turn into pupa before becoming adult ladybirds. Each class has an observation book and one child a day is drawing a picture and writing about what they can see. Over time, we hope to document how they change.

Religion and Worldviews

Continuing to explore our question: “How should we live our lives?” We will learn about why Christian and Jewish people might want to care for the world.

Expressive arts and Design

The children will be making frog puppets!