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• We have noticed a decline in parents reading with their children. Please make sure you continue to read with your child everyday. The children have worked so hard to learn their phonics and if they don’t apply this knowledge everyday at home, it often gets forgotten. We want the children to have the best start possible in Year 1, so please keep reading with them.
• 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 been immersed in the story Tad. Alongside this, there has been lots of fun activities going on at school, including a drama workshop and shuffle up time! On Thursday, the children spent time in their new classrooms with their new teachers playing and listening to a story.

Tapestry observation request 

This week our focus is Religion and Worldviews. In class, we have been thinking about caring for our world. Please send in one way you are helping to care for the world (eg recycling, planting bee- and butterfly- friendly flowers, walking instead of using the car…)

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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Star of the Week

Daisy Class – Elio and Eleanor 

Buttercup Class – Elle and Thomas

This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be discussing healthy foods in PSED this week. We will be looking at a range of healthy food and using our senses to describe them and learn why they are good for us. 

Communication and Language

This week we will be reading non-fiction texts to research facts about a minibeast selected by the class.

Physical development

In PE this week we will be using a range of different balls to practise our throwing and catching skills.

Literacy

This week in Phonics, we will practise mastery of Phase 4 words with adjacent consonants:  spr, str, scr, thr, nch

And revisiting the common exception words: when, out, what

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 facts they have discovered about the minibeast their class has chosen.

Maths

This week in Maths, we will be using the skills we have learnt over the year to solve problems. They will also be making predictions and testing their ideas.

Understanding the World

This week the children will be researching their chosen minibeast and coming up with four facts about their chosen minibeast to write. We will share our facts next week during our year group assembly.

Religion and Worldviews

This week, continuing to explore, “How should we live our lives?” We will learn about the two most important rules for Christians which Jesus taught: Love God and love others.

Expressive arts and Design

In art this week we will be making pictures to take to our new Year 1 classes with us so they can make a display ready for the children’s start in September. 

In music we will be focusing on the range of pitch used in a song and identifying different instruments we can hear that make up the music in the song.