Dates for your diary

Sports Day

Our Sports Day will be on Tuesday 18th June. Parents and carers are invited to come and support the children.

 

Diversity Picnic

On Friday 5th July, the children will be celebrating themselves. We will be having a picnic in the afternoon and the children can wear their own clothes. We want to celebrate our diversity by sharing our cultures, pride, languages, and individuality. Children can wear traditional dress, a colour they love, rainbows or whatever they feel comfortable in. We welcome any snacks or traditional finger food to be shared with the children on this day – no nuts or nut products please.

 

Graduation Celebration

Reception will be celebrating the end of their Early Years journey on Monday 15th July at 9:30am. Parents and carers are invited to come and see the children perform some special songs and receive their certificates.

 

Last Day of School

The last day of the school year will be Friday 19th July – school closes at 2pm.

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Welcome To Summer Term in Reception

We hope that you all had a lovely break! 

Our topic this term is Toys. We will look at old and new toys, discussing the similarities and differences between them. Throughout this topic, our key books are…

 

 

As we look towards September and the transition to Year 1, our Literacy and Maths focus for this half term will be around the Early Learning Goals.

Literacy

Comprehension ELG Children at the expected level of development will:

Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary;

Anticipate – where appropriate – key events in stories;

Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions about stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems and during role-play.

Word Reading ELG Children at the expected level of development will: 

Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs;

Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending;

Read aloud simple sentences and books that are consistent with their phonic knowledge, including some common exception words.

Writing ELG Children at the expected level of development will:

Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed;

Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters;

Write simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others.

Mathematics

Number ELG Children at the expected level of development will:

Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number;

Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5;

Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.

Numerical Patterns ELG Children at the expected level of development will:

Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system;

Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity;

Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.

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Learning about forces and friction in Science

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Our Splash Of Art In Nursery

Take a look below at all of our lovely paintings and drawings on display around the classroom. We have been working very hard on our fine motor skills.

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Diving into the jungle…

This week in nursery, the children have been learning about the habitats of jungle animals and what kinds of animals might live in the jungle. They have been painting different animals that live in the jungle and acting out as gorillas, lions, and monkeys. They have enjoyed learning about the special features of these animals and have been designing their own animal masks. The children have also been working hard on their counting, cutting out different animals, and writing different labels/captions. The children are working extremely hard on their early sound recognition every morning in phonics. Please continue to help your child form letters at home and continue practicing writing their names. We would also appreciate it if you could read them a story every night before bed to help with their listening and comprehension skills.

Thank you for your continued support and help.

EYFS Team

  

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Our Tricky Words

Little Wandle Phonics

I can read the following words – I can sound out the word / I can read the word by sight.

and
as
be
full
go
has
he
her
his

I
into

 is
me
no
of
pull
push
put
she
the
to
we
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Meeting Reminder

Please don’t forget to check your allocated time for Parent/ Carer Meetings as we are running these on multiple days.

We are looking forward to seeing you to discuss your child’s learning!

We’d like to gently remind you that meeting slots are not flexible as we have so many lovely parents and carers to see – if you feel your meeting needed to go on longer than the allocated 15 minutes, do just ask to make another appointment. Please make sure you arrive five minutes before your meeting time.

Thank you,

The Reception Team

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Summer 1 – Week 3

This week in Year 5

This week in Year 5 we are continuing to study The Great Plague in out LAC lessons. As part of this work we have been doing an extended write where we are writing a newspaper report imagining that it is May 1665 in the middle of plague in London. Children have applied a range of skills to draft, edit and publish excellent newspaper reports.

Also this week the children have been learning about their emotions and how to regulate them in a program of learning run by external professionals called Brain Buddies.

This summer term we are lucky enough to have coaches coming into the school on Friday afternoons to teach the children cricket skills.

 

Notices

Parents Evening on the 15th of May with some meetings being held on other days during the week

PE kits needs to be brought in but not worn on Tuesdays and Fridays

Reading Records need to be brought in Monday and Friday with 3 tasks being completed each week. Children should be practicing their reading every night and benefit from discussing what they are reading with adults.

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Parent / Carer Meetings

We are looking forward to meeting with you all over the next few weeks. Every child has been given an appointment – it is very important that you attend to discuss your child’s progress and attainment. A list of times will be displayed at the Reception entrance to remind you of your slot. Please make sure you look at this to check your time.

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Move and Learn

Year 6 have been taking part in a health project run by Millwall over the last 6 weeks, learning about physical activity, the benefits of moving, how to keep hydrated and have a balanced and varied diet.

Sessions also included weekly physical activities with coaches.

 

 

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