Reception – Term 2, Week 5 – Henleaze Infant School

Key dates

Tuesday 2nd December 2025 – Please ensure your child has a named bag and anything they need to go with their costume for the nativity by 2nd December.
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 Literacy.

We would love to see some perfectly-formed handwriting this week! Please send in a photo of your child writing their name, where they have tried really hard with the correct letter formation. This could be with a colourful felt pen, on a label, note, card or even large scale with a paintbrush – as long as they have started in the right place and formed each letter correctly! Please use the information on the handwriting section of the writing page of the school website.

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 use volume, pace and tone for effect when echo reading.
Personal, Social and Emotional development	To have a clear idea about what they want to do in their play and how they want to go about it.
Physical development	To develop hopping.
Phonics	To learn the phonemes : oo, ar, or, ur To learn the common exception words: they, all
Reading	To blend words using known phonemes in phonics lessons and when reading books. To say what the initial, middle and final sounds are in CVC words. To say how many sounds there are in a word.
Writing	To use correct letter formation when labelling CVC pictures and to practise name writing. Handwriting: To practise s,f,x,v,w
Maths	Introduce Zero – Children learn what zero means, nothing there. To find 0 to 5 – Children explore numbers 0 to 5 using pictures and objects. Subitise 0 to 5 – Children quickly recognise how many objects are in a small group without counting.
Understanding the World	R+WV To know the Christian story of Christmas. Computing To know that the internet can be a good source of information. To be familiar with our school Online Safety Rules. To know to only say and do kind things online.
Expressive Arts and Design	Music Increasingly collaborate with others to experiment with body parts and instruments to create more layered sounds. DT To share a finished model and talk about the process in its creation.