Reception – Term 2, Week 3

Key dates 

  • Wednesday 10th December 2025 – 9:30am Reception Nativity performance to parents/carers
  • Thursday 11th December, 2pm – HIS Carol Service at St Peter’s Church. Families are welcome to join us to sing some carols at 2pm.
  • Friday 19th December – Last day of school before the Christmas holidays

Noticeboard 

  • Please bring in clean cardboard boxes of all sizes for our Design and Build area (junk modelling). No plastic please. 
  • Children need to bring their book bag with their reading record and book into school every day. 
  • If you haven’t already, please provide your child with a PE kit. 
  • Please provide your child with 1 portion of fruit or vegetables (no crackers, breadsticks etc) in a named pot every day. 
  • When dropping your child off at school in the morning, please make sure they do not play with the resources that have been carefully placed for learning later in the day.
  • On your way into/out of school, please do not let your child climb on and walk along the wall. Due to safety reasons, we cannot allow 30 children to walk on during the school day. It is really difficult for children to have two different sets of rules, therefore we ask that no children walk on the wall. 

Tapestry observation 

We are asking parents to contribute to their child’s learning diary (Tapestry) for the second time! We will ask for one observation a week via the blog. 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.

The focus this week is computing. Please enter the Festive Card Competition below!

Purple Mash are holding a Festive Card Competition and we would love it if pupils from Henleaze Infant School could take part in this at home; we look forward to seeing your entries! Please click this link for full details on how to enter. Your child’s log in details will stuck into either the back or front of their reading record (yellow book). Please note: School staff don’t get notified of entries and as they are on public display boards names are not added alongside them. Therefore, please could you upload a copy of their design to your child’s Tapestry profile so that we can celebrate these in class.

Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

Apple device  Andriod device  Desktop

Key text

The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.  

Book:The Squirrels Who Squabbled 
Vocabulary focus:flighty, spontaneous, plentiful, convinced, wistfully, haste, intent, cease
At the end of the week, children will know:that animals store food at certain times of the year for hibernation.
that sometimes friends squabble.
that some people in the world do not have enough food.
At the end of the week, children will be able to:explain why sharing is important.
talk about how greedy the squirrels were in the story.
describe the story setting and characters, saying how the characters were different.

Next week’s learning

Subject This week’s learning objectives
Communication and languageTo confidently offer ideas, suggestions and opinions in whole class, group and 1 to 1 situations.
Personal, Social and Emotional development To explore different coping strategies to regulate our emotions. 
To identify our own feelings. 
To consider the reasons behind our emotions.
To describe physical changes to the body that can occur when feeling unwell, anxious, tired, angry or sad.
Physical development To develop changing direction. 
To negotiate space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles (proprioception).
PhonicsTo learn the phonemes: ch sh th ng.
To learn the common exception words: he, she
WritingTo use correct letter formation when labelling CVC pictures and to practise name writing.
To practise correct letter formation of p h b c and o.
Maths To know 1 less than a given number – Take away one from groups of 4 or 5.
To explore composition of 4 and 5 – Break the numbers 4 and 5 into smaller parts.
To explore composition of 1–5 – Explore how numbers 1 to 5 can be split and put together in different ways.
Understanding the WorldTo know that some animals store food for the winter.
To know that some animals hibernate in the winter.
To hear the Christian story of the Lost Sheep and know that it tells Christians that God cares about everyone.
Expressive Arts and Design To learn how to plan and select the correct resources needed to make a model.
To sculpt with playdough, plasticine, clay and paper-mâché to create a specific idea and use correct vocabulary to describe the process e.g. twisted, rolled, stretched.
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