Reception – Term 2, Week 6 – 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
Wednesday 17th December – Christmas lunch (order on Swift Kitchen app) and Christmas jumper day
Friday 19th December – Last day of school before the Christmas holidays. Home clothes day

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.

The focus this week is Expressive Arts and Design.

If you are doing any Christmas craft at home, please send us a picture so we can celebrate it in school.

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.

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

Book:	Standing Up To Racism
Vocabulary focus:	melanin, racism, unfairness, tease, heritage, proud, equal, inequality
At the end of the week, children will know:	that people have different skin colour because of melanin. that people should not be treated differently because of the colour of their skin or because they look different. that everyone should be treated equally.
At the end of the week, children will be able to:	simply explain what racism is. discuss ways in which racism can happen. explain ways we can stand up to racism.

Subject	This week’s learning objectives
Communication and language	To take part in a simple performance with confidence.
Personal, Social and Emotional development	To explore different facial expressions and what they mean. To talk about their own and others’ feelings and behaviour and its consequences. To be sensitive to prejudice and discrimination. To understand the importance of respecting others, even when they are different from them.
Physical development	To choose to move in a range of ways, moving freely and with confidence making changes to body shape, position and pace of movement.
Phonics	Reading words containing -ing endings with no change to the root word. Revisiting lessons to support with progress.
Writing	To use correct letter formation when writing a Christmas card.
Maths	To represent 0 to 5 (children show numbers 0 to 5 by drawing or using objects). To know 1 more up to 5. To know 1 less up to 5.
Understanding the World	Talk about common themes in stories about historical figures, e.g. bravery, difficult choices, kindness.
Expressive Arts and Design	To explore different ways to temporarily join materials together. To select specific textures to represent different things