Key dates
- Wednesday 17th December – Christmas lunch (order on Swift Kitchen app) and Christmas parties. Home clothes – Christmas jumper day or party clothes. Collecting donations for Save the Children charity. Please send your child into school with one named plastic cup (for a cup of squash).
- Friday 19th December – Last day of school before the Christmas holidays. Home clothes day. Collecting donations for FHIS
- Monday 5th January – Inset day. Children back at school on Tuesday 6th January 2026
- Friday 30th January – Inset day. School closed for children.
Noticeboard
- If your child finishes one side of their bookmark, please let your child’s class teacher know so they can write them a certificate. 1 side = bronze certificate, 2 sides/whole bookmark = silver certificate, 3 sides/1 and a ½ bookmarks = gold certificate, 4 sides/2 whole bookmarks = headteachers award.
- Please bring in clean cardboard boxes (not too big!)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 Understanding the World.
Next week, we are having a computing lesson where the children will use iPads to create a picture. Search around your house for different types of technology and send us photos. We will then show these pictures and discuss how technology is used in everyday life.
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.
Apple device Andriod device Desktop
Next week’s learning
| Subject | This week’s learning objectives |
| Communication and language | To introduce a storyline or narrative into their play while exploring Christmas role play areas. |
| Personal, Social and Emotional development | To identify different feelings and how to moderate behaviour socially and emotionally. |
| Physical development | To explore different ways to travel using equipment. To balance dynamically (balance whilst moving). |
| Phonics | Revisiting phase 3 digraphs |
| Reading | Reading 1:1 |
| Writing | To write a Christmas list using CVC words. |
| Maths | To find different ways to make numbers up to 5 by putting smaller groups together. To subitise to 5. |
| Understanding the World | To explore how some Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah by learning about the story behind it. To talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. To complete a simple computer program. To use ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. |
| Expressive Arts and Design | To make a Christmas crown to wear at Christmas dinner on Wednesday! |