Church Walk

Can I just say a huge thank you to all of the parent helpers for the lovely walk to the church today. Yet again the children made me very proud and look forward to our summer trip even more!
Thanks again! Miss G

Church Walk

Please remember that tomorrow is our Church walk and all children will need to be equipped with comfortable shoes and warm coats etc. I know the weather is much better today but unfortunately the forecast is that it is to be short lived!!! Roll on summer!

Show and Tell

Can I ask you to please think whether the item your child is bringing for "show and tell" is special as we are spending a long time looking at toys and teddies. I don't want to be a bore and have to limit who brings things on which weeks as this is difficult to manage for me and you. I think it is a very important learning experience for the children but not one that they have to participate in every week - sometimes they gain as much asking the questions and listening to others.
Thank you for your support with ensuring that all children get an equal turn in sharing.

Lunch and snacks

Just a quick reminder that we ask you to provide "treat" food for packed lunches on Fridays only. This includes anything coated in chocolate - thanks.

Similarly only fresh fruit or vegetables or plain biscuits for snacks and fresh water each day for their drinks bottles - thanks. Nagging over!

Phonics Spring week 3

Here are last week's sounds for you to practice!

Shapes

WOW I'm getting into this again! It's amazing what you can do with a camera and a bit of patience! I hope this helps. The only other shape that we will refer to that I couldn't find a picture of would be a prism eg a triangular prism would be a shape that if you sliced it you would get lots of triangles (it looks like a toblerone box). In further years they will move onto hexagonal prisms, octagonal prisms, etc!

Reception week 4

Can you believe that we are at week 4 of 5 already??? The highlight of this week will hopefully (weather permitting) be the walk to St Oswalds on Wednesday. If you haven't already done so please send in your permission slip so that we can ensure that everybody is able to come along. Parents who have volunteered (thank you lots) to come along we will need you to pop into the hall on the morning prior to the walk for us to provide you with the relevant information regarding the risk assessment and what we would like you to "investigate" with the children.

In literacy this week we are looking at a text which is one of my favourites "I don't want to go to bed". Probably words which you have heard once or twice before! We will be basing a Big Writing on this text in the final week of this half term.

In numeracy we will be revisiting 3-d shapes and looking at both being able to name them and be able to describe their properties. We would like if you have any objects around your home that the children recognise as a particular shape that you either get them to bring it in to show us or that you could write down what they said about the shape and perhaps photograph them with it. A fun activity may be to create a "shape hunt" around the room where even a carefully placed shape or 2 may have been hidden!

Thanks for reading! Miss G