Poetry Basket: Pointy Hat
This week’s poem is called Pointy Hat. In this poem, we focussed on some key words and their meanings: pointed (having an end that gets sharper at the point) and tumbled (to look hard or closely to see something better).
Movement session
This week, we’re throwing bibs into the air to help support our object control skills. This fun activity is helping us develop our throwing skills, coordination and control as we watch the bib in the air.
This photo is a fantastic snapshot of all the children joining in, giving it a go and enjoying being active. Well done, everyone!
Autumn 2
Take a look at our Autumn 2 overview to find out all the exciting things our Reception children will be learning, exploring and discovering this half-term.
Autumn 1: Week 8
We’ve come to the end of our first half-term in Reception! It’s been a fantastic first half-term, full of exciting learning, new experiences and lots of fun. I’m sure the children are looking forward to a well-deserved break before we begin Autumn 2.
This week, the children have been busy taking part in our Rainbow Challenges. Here’s a little snapshot of some of the wonderful learning and activities they’ve been enjoying:
Building bridges to help the Superveggies escape from the Evil Pea.
Using our good drawing skills to design our own Superveggies.
Continuing repeating patterns in the maths area.
Making magic potions in the water area.
Painting pumpkins using our observational skills to look carefully at their shapes, colours and details.
Exploring the inside of pumpkins!
Top tip for parents
Please remember to keep your child’s reading record in their book bag every day. Occasionally, we may need to write in it on a different day.
We hope everyone enjoys a restful half-term break, and we look forward to welcoming the children back for more exciting learning in Autumn 2!
Poetry Basket: Five Little Pumpkins
This week’s poem is called Five Little Pumpkins. In this poem, we focussed on some key words and their meanings: tumbled (to fall down or roll around). We also talked about the ordinal numbers first, second and third.
Autumn 1: Week 7
This week, we’ve really enjoyed immersing ourselves in the story of Supertato! The Evil Pea escaped from the freezer again, but luckily, we’ve been busy creating our own traps in the creative area to help protect our classroom.
We’ve also been busy making magic potions in our outdoor kitchen to stop the Evil Pea from causing any more mischief!
We’ll be continuing our Supertato adventures next week.
Maths
Every day in maths, we explore prepositional language. We use actions to help us understand and remember each of the prepositional words we’ve been learning this half-term.
Help at home: Play hide a seek with a soft toy. Use the actions to describe where the soft toy is.
Phonics
We’re so proud to share that’ve we’ve finished learning all of the Phase 2 phonemes for this half-term! Next week, we’ll focus on practising our blending skills and recapping all the phonemes. Well done, everyone!
Help at home: Please use your child’s phonics home learning book daily. Practise saying the pure sounds and writing the corresponding graphemes to help reinforce their learning.
Half term football opportunity
Here’s a new football venture starting locally during half term.
Living & Learning: Me and my community week 2 November
Our next whole school themed week, based around identity, diversity and community, will be taking place from Monday 2nd November. This is the first of two themed weeks in the year. In our ‘Me and My Community’ week, children will learn about what it means to belong to a community, from family to national or even international communities. Importantly, our children will also learn to respect and celebrate different communities.
Active travel in the community
We encourage children to get out in the community in an active way on their way to and from school. By walking/scooting/biking to school, families will be keeping our community safer and healthier by reducing congestion at the school gate. Maybe even pick up a piece of litter on the way. Even by parking further away from school your child could then travel the final part of their journey by foot, bike or scooter.
Email us ([email protected]) a picture of your active travel, maybe by a landmark in our community on your route to school, for the chance to win one of three vouchers. Entries to be submitted by 4pm on Thursday 5th November.
New school charity
At the end of the themed week, classes will have the chance to discuss our charity shortlist and the Junior Leadership Team will have the final vote for which charity they would like our school to support, replacing our current charity, Martin House Hospice.
Identity day
Friday 6th November will be a non-uniform Identity Day. Children are invited to dress in clothing that represents part of their identity, for example uniform from a club they attend, a team they are part of or support or traditional dress to represent their heritage. There is no donation or contribution required for this day.
SAVE THE DATE PTA coffee morning Friday 6th November 9-10am
As part of the week, we welcome all parents and carers to an informal coffee morning to meet other members of our school community including representatives from the PTA. A whole school community Wake up Shake up will follow at 9:50am in the main playground.
Can you help?
Maybe you speak another language and you would be happy to speak to children about this or you would like to share about your own family culture and heritage. If so, please contact the office to pass on your details. Also, do you have any local community links that may support our week?
Magnets!
Today, we explored magnets and carried out simple tests to find out which objects were magnetic and which weren’t. We grouped the objects and looked for links between the materials they were made from and whether they were magnetic. We even discovered some surprising things that happen when two magnets are brought together!