Packed Lunches
Does your child have a packed lunch at school? If so, please download our Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches.
Did you know that popcorn is a choking hazard for children under 5? Lot’s of people don’t! The Food Standards Agency. has published the following advice on how to prepare food safely for your young child.
Hello Reception!
The time has nearly arrived for you to start school! We’re really looking forward to welcoming you all into our classroom over the next few days. We’ve been super busy getting the classroom ready for when you arrive.
Here’s a sneak peak of some of the areas…
Me and my family!
Goodbye Reception!
I can’t believe your Reception year has come to an end. Since returning in March, we’ve shared many amazing memories together. You’ve all had a tremendous first year at school and I’m extremely proud of each and every one of you. I love forward to seeing you all in your new Year 1 classroom in September. Have a wonderful summer!
Some highlights since March…
Summer 2: Week 5
Nell Bank
We had a fantastic day on Wednesday learning about the importance of recycling, hunting for bugs and making houses for the baby badgers. The children’s behaviour was impeccable and their enthusiasm and knowledge was amazing.
Library books
Please return all library books for the end of the school year.
Health week
Next week, is our second themed week of the year. We’ll be taking part in various healthy activities. Your child can come to school in their PE kit all week.
Summer 2: Week 4
Literacy
This week, we’ve been reading Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon. After reading the book, we thought about how we could look after our oceans, animals and earth. It has helped us to understand that we are responsible for our own litter. We had a go at making some eye-catching posters to help get our important messages across.
To help keep our school tidy, we had a go at litter picking.
Art
Yesterday, we talked about Alexander Calder and had a look at some images of his famous moving mobiles. We talked about the different 3d shapes and had a go at creating our own representations of his work. We’ll continue to create our mobiles next week.
Living and Learning
This week, we’ve been recognising our strengths and saying good things about ourselves. I am good at…
Zo – swimming
Zu – writing
Ha – football
Ar – gymnastics
Geo – basketball
Ay – cricket
Po – being helpful
Je – being a good friend
Learning journey drop in
Your child should have a brought home a learning journey drop in letter. Please make sure your return your sign-up slip by Friday 4th July.
School trip
We’re really looking forward to our school trip to Nell Bank on Wednesday. Your child will need:
- Named water bottle
- Packed lunch
- Suitable coat
- Suitable footwear
Your child does not need their school bag on this day!
Summer 2: Week 3
Poetry picnic
This week’s poem is called I Have a Little Frog. We had lots of fun using prosody when saying the last line. Click here to watch us perform our poem.
Literacy and history
This week, we’ve been reading Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. Our word of the week was thoughtful. We talked about what the word means and how it links to our story. Yesterday, we looked at some past and present seaside holiday photographs. We talked about similarities and differences.
Role-play
With the weather heating up, we thought it would be a good idea to turn our home corner into an ice cream shop. Throughout the week, we’ve seen some amazing turn taking, communication skills and imaginative play. Some of the children made their own labels and signs to put up in the shop. I’ve definitely had my fair share of ice cream sundaes this week!
Jellyfish
This week’s creative chilli challenge was to make a jellyfish. From rainbow jellyfish to jellyfish with six eyes, we had lots of fun creating them.
Summer 2: Week 2
Literacy
This week we read lots of seaside poems collected by Jill Bennett. We used the illustrations in the book to help us think about things we might only see at the seaside. We compared two different environments (city and seaside) by looking are various pictures.
Maypole
The Maypole practising has started! For many years, the Reception class have opened the Summer Fair by performing a Maypole dance. We’re super excited to show off our amazing skipping skills on Friday 04 July.
Maths
We’ve been deepening our understanding of mathematical relationships within numbers to 10. We’ve enjoyed using different resources to help demonstrate these key skills:
- assembling a whole object from different parts
- making a whole number from 2 parts
- splitting some numbers into 2 groups that each have an equal amount
- recognising that 2 equal groups can make a double, e.g. double 3 is 6 altogether
- understanding that double patterns are even; they have ‘flat tops’ because they are made of 2 equal groups
- understanding that odd numbers cannot be split into 2 equal groups; they’re not doubles, they have an ‘odd block’/’odd one out’
Zog Day
Yesterday, we watched Julia Donaldson read Zog and Zog and the Flying Doctors. We also got to watch how to draw a loveable dragon by Axel Scheffler. We got our orange pens ready and had a go at drawing our own Zogs!
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem is called Thunderstorm. We had lots of fun using prosody when reciting this poem.
Reminders
- Reception to Year 1 Zoom meeting on Monday at 6pm
- Class photo day on Thursday
Zoom: Reception to Year 1 information meeting
As the weather becomes brighter and we near the end of the academic year you may be thinking about your child’s next steps as they journey into Year 1. Moving to Year 1 is perhaps a less significant change for children, and that’s because we’re a happy and healthy place to learn where we all know each other.
A zoom meeting for parent’s starts our transition process, here you will meet the Key Stage 1 staff and find out about the Year 1 curriculum.
The zoom meeting is on Monday 16 June at 6pm please follow the link that will be emailed to you.
The next step is for your child to spend some time in the Year 1 classrooms. They’ll meet the teachers and join in with the learning, they’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be in Year 1. The whole-school transition, later in July, completes the process, by spending a morning with their new class teacher.
This is a really exciting time of year, moving on and taking those next steps whilst continuing to strengthen the effective learning behaviours they have established in Reception.
Summer 2: Week 1
Ahoy, Me Hearties!
This week, we’ve been reading The Night Pirates by Peter Harris. This great book has inspired our learning in the areas of provision. We’ve been building pirate ships in the construction area, making up stories with the pirates, creating pirate hats and collecting treasure at the finger gym table.
Maths
This week, we introduced the Rekenreks to the children. We continued to practise our subitising skills by using our ‘fast eyes’ to subitise the beads on a Rekenrek. A Rekenrek allows the children to further develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers.
We know to make sure all the beads are at the right-hand side of the rack. This is called the ‘ready position’. We then pause (think), place (one finger) and push (the beads) using the ‘one finger push’ method.
Poetry picnic
This week’s poem was called Monkey Babies. We discussed the rhythm of the poem and decided it had a ‘medium’ rhythm. We also could hear lots of rhyming words. See if you can hear the rhyming words when you watch it.
Group 1
Group 2
Super writing!
Every morning, we have a go at writing a caption or a sentence about an interesting picture. We’ve seen some amazing letter formation this week. Here’s some examples…
Help at home: Write a caption or sentence about this picture. You could bring your sentence into school or take a picture of it and send it to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Tennis
Yesterday, the children amazed us with their fantastic listening skills during the tennis session. They were very enthusiastic when playing the heads, shoulders, knees and ball game at the start.
This half-term is super busy! Please make sure you make note of the key events happening in Summer 2.
