Author: Mrs Wood

We’ve had a wonderful week welcoming groups 2 and 3 into Reception. It’s been great to see a full classroom full of busy learners! We’ve been so impressed with how well all the children have settled.

Every morning, your child will come into the classroom and do their morning jobs.  Our cloakroom is only small and can get very crowded on a morning! To reduce the amount of people in the cloakroom, please encourage your child to do these jobs independently.

Snacks and water…
Please make sure your child’s water bottle only contains plain water.

Every day, school will provide a healthy fruit or vegetable. If your child would prefer to bring their own snack, please ensure this contains only fruit and/or vegetables. Snacks from home will stay in the children’s bookbags.

If your child is having grapes for their snack, please ensure that the grapes are cut lengthways.

Parent Partners
Alongside our themes, we try to plan other areas of learning according to the children’s interests. To help us do this, we need YOU! Throughout the year, it would be great if you could send photos of any ‘WOW’ moments or new interests your child has at home. You can bring these moments into school or send them to [email protected].

PE
PE starts next Friday. Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit.

Me and my family
Next week, we’ll be thinking about families. This is our first theme for this half-term.  During this theme, we’ll be getting to know each other, share photographs of our families and make historical links by looking at photographs of families from the past.

Home-Link Challenge
Reminders
Monday 19 September – School is closed.
Tuesday 27 September – Early reading Zoom at 6pm.

I hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend.

This week, we welcomed our first group of Reception children. We’ve had a busy few days getting to know each other and the routines. They’ve settled really well and we’ve already started to see some amazing learning!

Every morning, we’ll encourage your child to be independent when doing their daily jobs. The jobs include: hanging up their coat, finding their name, choosing their lunch, and voting for a story.

Things to remember…

• PE will be every Monday and Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit. Our first PE session will be on Monday 19 September. Click here if you’re unsure about any items of clothing or footwear.
• Your child will need a labelled water bottle each day. Please ensure the bottle only contains water – no juice, please!
• The school day is 8.50 am – 3.15 pm.
• Please make sure all items of clothing are NAMED.

If you have any questions, please ask at the end of the day.

Zoom workshops
If you’re interested in attending any of these Zoom workshops, please either send us a message on the School Gateway app or email the school office. We’ll then email the Zoom joining details out to all those who have expressed an interest.

Reminder!

Phonics and early reading Zoom session on Monday 12 September.

We look forward to welcoming group 2 and 3 children next week!

We’re looking to you seeing you all soon.
We’ve been super busy getting the classroom ready for when you arrive.

Here’s a sneak peak of the areas…

See you soon!

We have reached the end of our year in Reception.

The children have all been amazing and we have been impressed with how much they have progressed. I will miss seeing them grow up!

Thank you for all your kind messages and presents.

Have a happy and healthy summer.

 

 

 

The children had great fun on their scooter training session and learnt how to stay safe near the roads.

PE

PE will be on Thursday instead of Friday for the next three weeks.

This week will be a very busy one!

Sports Day 

Remember to send your child to school in their PE kit and correct coloured T- shirt. They will need their water bottle and hat if it’s sunny.

PE

PE will now be on Thursday until the end of term as the children will be having football coaching.

Library

We are now visiting our school library to borrow books every Tuesday. Please bring library books back on Tuesdays.

 

 

We had a great time at the farm-but the best part was the bus journey!

We have a very busy few weeks ahead of us as we reach the end of term.

Balanceability

These sessions will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure your child has long trousers and suitable footwear.

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Please send your child in their school uniform and with a packed lunch. It  looks like it will be a sunny day, so please send your child with a hat and apply sun cream before they come to school.

Topic

The children are enjoying learning about oceans and the animals that live there.

They have been role-playing in our ‘ice-cream shop’ and reading in our ‘under the sea’ reading area.

The children have been visiting the Year 1/2 shared area and enjoyed finding new equipment and challenges.

 

 

 

Welcome back. We hope you had a great half-term!

We can’t believe we have reached the last half term of the year and the children will soon be heading off to Year 1!

This half term is always busy with lots of exciting things to look forward to.

This term our mini-themes will be:

Let’s make a splash!
As we move into the final term of the year, the weather is much warmer (we hope!) and we begin thinking about days at the beach. The water area is a favourite in our provision and has lots of learning opportunities. As a scientist, your child will investigate floating and sinking, making predictions and testing theories. They’ll also investigate materials in terms of being waterproof. As a geographer, your child will look at a seaside town and find it on a map, learning that a seaside town is always on the coast. They’ll talk about the things that they see at the seaside that they don’t see in Leeds. Finally, as a historian, your child will learn about seaside holidays of the past, identifying differences in clothing and entertainment by looking at old photos and videos.

Where in the world?
Summer holidays are on our minds during these last few weeks of term. This theme enables us to develop an understanding of travel. We will think about the different ways people can travel to holiday destinations: by car, coach or aeroplane, for example. Your child will find out how much travel has changed through history. They will become travel agents in role-play situations, too.

In addition we will be thinking about change and our transition to Year 1. The children will be given the chance to visit their new classroom areas.

Phonics

We are continuing with phase 4 learning. The children will be reading more challenging words and sentences and gaining more confidence and fluency. They will use their knowledge to write simple sentences independently.

 

 

Congratulations to our newly elected Junior Leadership Team representatives and well done to all the children who took part. The speeches were amazing!

This week we will be learning about different habitats and reading the book, ‘Walking through the jungle’. The children will look at atlases and maps and find out about different habitats and the animals that live there.

Our caterpillars are growing fast and we are waiting for them to form a chrysalis.

Maths

This week, the children will continue to develop their understanding of the composition of numbers to 10 using different representations. They will deepen their understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up of smaller parts through games and practical experiences, such as investigating different ways to represent 10 sausages from the counting rhyme, ‘10 Fat Sausages’. The children will also use their fingers and 10-frames to explore ‘5 and a bit’ numbers to 10. Composing and de-composing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 7 can be made of 5 and 2 more. Using these structures, and making links between them, will provide practical and visual experiences to further consolidate their understanding of the composition of numbers between 6 and 10.