Your child now has a library book to share with you at home. Enjoy sharing this together. Our book changing day is Friday , so please make sure it is in the bookbag ready to be handed back for someone else to enjoy.

We have had an exciting and enjoyable first week in Reception! We have been coming into school with positivity and lots of smiles! Thank you to our parents for supporting the very important transition into school - It really helps us to settle and be ready for the day. We have spent the week learning new routines, making new friends, sharing, listening, waiting our turn and most importantly, having fun in our new classrooms! This week, we read the story of the smartest giant and linked this to our value of kindness.  We talked about how we can show kindness by helping others, sharing, keeping our hands and feet to ourselves and listening to others. We have also looked at the story of the Colour Monster. We explored feelings and how these may look.  We learnt that all feelings matter and how important it is to talk. Phonics - Over the past week, we have been focusing on listening using environmental and animal sounds.  We have also explored rhyme!  Next week we are v...

  Thank you all so much for your lovely words, cards and gifts. It is very kind of you. The children have had a super first year at school. We hope you have a great holiday! 

  S tory focus : Once There Were Giants by Martin Waddell We have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus: the number system . We verbally counted beyond 20; identified the 'stopping number' (cardinal principle); counted things that cannot be seen or tagged (abstraction principle); developed strategies to keep track of what has and hasn't been counted (e.g moving into a line, moving objects as they are counted). PE focus : In RW, Country Dancing. RJ's hall slot was being used so we practised some skills for Sports Day. Understanding the World/PSED focus:  recapping life cycles and identifying the life stages of a human (baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, elderly person). Our story was a lovely way of showing the stages of life and we really enjoyed reading it....

S tory focus : The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. We have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus: composition of 5 and doubles.   PE focus : Country Dancing  Understanding the World/PSED focus: life cycles. We looked at life cycles of seeds and animals.  We always enjoy COOL Time (Choosing Our Own Learning) and we practise lots of skills during this time.

This is just a shout out to remind parents how beneficial it is to read at home.  It really helps your child develop confidence and a love of reading. At school, we read our reading books multiple times and it is lovely to see the progress the children make with regular practise.  Thank you for your continued support. 

 S ome parents have said that the Rhino Reader texts are not working online; we read the Rhino Reader several times at school so please read their blue book and other reading book instead.  The first week back is done. Only 6 more weeks left in Reception! The children enjoyed Break the Rules Day: RJ were on fire in Phonics, so maybe we need to break the rules more often...(just kidding!)   S tory focus : the teachers have been reading some of their favourite stories this week.  We have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:  subitising. We used a new maths tool this week: a rekenrek!  We practised 'one push' of amounts. There are 5 red beads and 5 white beads. We pushed 1,2,3,4 and 5 and recapped the 1 more and 1 less pattern. We enjoyed usin...

  Some parents have said that the Rhino Reader texts are not working online; we read the Rhino Reader several times at school so please read their blue book and other reading book instead.    S tory focus : Aesop's Fables. RW read The Tortoise and The Hare and RJ read The Lion and The Mouse.  Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:  comparison. We ordered towers of cubes and numerals, thinking about their position and their size.  What number coms first? What is the biggest number? What number is in the middle? What number comes after 7? Why? We remembered that the next numeber is 1 more as you go up the staircase and 1 less as you go down.  We also played bowling to help us practise our bonds to 10.  1 m...

 Come along on Friday at 3pm to see some of our learning. RW will be performing poems and RJ will be showing you a Maths game. 

Some parents have said that the Rhino Reader texts are not working online; w read the Rhino Reader several times at school so please read their blue book and other reading book instead.    S tory focus :  Mad About Dinosaurs! by Gliles Andreae. We have added actions to our poems! Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:  composition of numbers 6-9 as '5 and a bit', represented in the Hungarian frame (dice spot pattern) and exploring how 10 is composed of 2 parts.  _____ is made of ___ and ___. ____ needs ___ to make 10. 10 is made of ___ and ___. PE focus : Crawl, Climb, Collect Understanding the World focus:  what types of dinosaurs were there? We found out that some walked on 2 legs and ate meat (Theropods) and so...