Noticeboard
- On Monday, please could each child bring in one pebble, large enough and flat enough to paint a mini beast on.
- Please alert your child’s class teacher if your child finishes one side of their bookmark so that they can receive their first certificate in assembly. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here.
- Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
- Children need to bring their book bag into school every day. If they do not have it on a Monday, they will not be able to have a new reading book. Please make sure the reading books come into school each day with your child.
- Please do not allow your child to play with the resources that are on the Reception patio in the morning. These have been carefully positioned and are there to support your child’s learning during the school day.
Celebrations
The children have had a brilliant first week back at school for their final term in Reception! We have started to talk to the children about their move to Year 1 and our PSHE focus this term is ‘Changing Me’. We have been enjoying the warmer weather and have enjoyed using our PE times to practise games for Sports Day. Alongside this, the children have been exploring new instruments and using 2D shapes to make scenes and pictures.
Star of the Week
Daisy – Arthur
Buttercup – Nora and Gabby
Tapestry – Observation request
This week, we are focusing on Maths. We would like you to play a game with your child at home that involves using a dice. Ask your child to subitise the number on the dice every time it is rolled. Subitising is the ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them.
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.
This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week in our Changing Me topic we will be discussing how we can respect our bodies by keeping them healthy. We will sort different foods into healthy and unhealthy foods.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: Mini Beasties by Michael Rosen
We will be looking at the poetry in this book.
We always encourage the children to engage in story times and non-fiction books in these ways:
Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.
Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what is being said.
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.
Describe some events in detail.
Word of the Week: poetry
Physical Development
We will be continuing to practise Sports Day activities, this week we will focus on egg and spoon race and sack race.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be practising some of the phonemes and graphemes already taught, focusing on those where class assessments have shown gaps in learning.
We will practising reading and writing: j, v, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, ai, oa
We will revisit the common exception words: me, we, be, he, she, was, you, little, one
We will practise blending phonemes to read, and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.
Writing: Fathers’ Day cards!
Maths
This week, we will be learning about patterns and making up our own pattern rules. We will also be thinking about perspective and how something can look different depending on which angle you are looking at it from.
Understanding the World
We will be continuing with our observations of ladybirds and contributing to the class.
Religion and Worldviews
We continue to explore our Big question for terms 5+6: How should we live our lives?
This week, we will hear the Christian story of Jesus meeting Zaccheus, and what this teaches Christians about including those who are marginalised, as well as the way it changed Zaccheus’ outlook.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be creating paintings of minibeasts on pebbles, please could all parents bring in one pebble for their child.
