Reception – Term 2, Week 4 – Henleaze Infant School

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.
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

The focus this week is Maths.

This week, we ask that you go on a shape hunt. This could be around your house, to the park or wherever you would like to go. Please take photographs of any shapes in the environment (e.g. square window, circle clock) that your child spots and send them to us on Tapestry. We will be showing these in class.

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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Next week’s learning

Subject	This week’s learning objectives
Communication and language	To follow a story without pictures or props.
Personal, Social and Emotional development	To explore the different adjectives that can be used to describe our feelings.
Physical development	To develop jumping.
Phonics	To learn the phonemes : ai ee igh oa To learn the common exception words: was, you
Writing	To use correct letter formation when labelling CVC pictures and to practise name writing. Handwriting: To practise a d g e q
Maths	To recognise and name shapes. To find shapes in the environment. To use 2D shapes to make pictures.
Understanding the World	To know the main events of the Christian Christmas story.
Expressive Arts and Design	To understand the importance of warming up voices. To have an understanding of singing with a variety of dynamics. To use the voice to copy a simple melodic pattern. To use voices expressively and creatively to sing songs and chants.