Noticeboard

• We have sent out the final Tapestry observations this year! Please check your child’s learning diary and enjoy sharing it with them.
• Friday 28th June – Please ensure that all library books are returned to your class teacher by Friday 28th June. This is to ensure that the library can be suitably organised and restocked.
• Monday 1st July – Open evening 3:30 – 4:30pm. A chance to come and look at your child’s work and visit their new classroom (parents and children welcome).
• Wednesday 10th July – Reports sent home
• Wednesday 10th July – Please ensure that all reading books and book class book corner books are returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 10th July. Thank you for your cooperation. 
• Friday 19th July – Last day of term. Non uniform day
• 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

With the warmer weather this week, the children have been enjoying water play outside. We also used the water tray during our Maths lessons this week. The children made boats from different materials (e.g. foil, paper, Lego, stickle bricks) and we put them in the water tray to see how many marbles they would hold before sinking. The children made predictions before we carried out the test. Buttercup class had different results to Daisy class!

We also designed and made bug hotels and put them in the outside environment to welcome minibeasts into the patio environment.

This week, the children spent some time in their new classroom playing and getting to know their new teachers.

Star of the Week 

Daisy – Jack and Celine

Buttercup –  Freya

Tapestry – Observation request

This week, our observation request is based on our Religion and Worldviews learning around the big question: “How should we live our lives?” We would love to see pictures of any ways that your child has been kind this week!

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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This week’s learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This week we will be continuing to support children with the transition into Year 1 by discussing further our thoughts and feelings about the change ahead.

Communication and Language 

 This week, we will be looking at non-fiction texts chosen by each class, based on the minibeasts they are researching.

We will be recalling details from the books.

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: Agility

Physical Development 

In PE this week we will be continuing to develop our agility this week by practising our reaction and response skills with small and large balls. 

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: str, nch, fr, cr, ure, er

We will revisit the common exception words: when, out, what, her

We will practise blending phonemes to read, and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.

Writing:  Using our phonics knowledge, we will write facts about the minibeasts we have been researching in class.

Maths

We will be recapping addition and subtraction this week. We will be focusing on 1 more and 1 less within 10 and number bonds to 10.

Understanding the World 

As a class we will be deciding on a minibeast to research. We will be collecting information about said minibeast from non-fiction books and safe internet sources. We will also be going on a minibeast hunt. We will record our facts in our literacy lessons and we will present our facts next week to the other Reception class.  

Religion and Worldviews

Continuing our learning based on the big question, “How should we live our lives?” We will learn about the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, and what the Bible says about Jesus and the Greatest Commandment: to love God and love others.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will have our final music lesson of the unit where we have been learning the Calypso song. This week, we will perform it.