[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fca1a1″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents

You are invited to a Christmas Musical performance by Reception children on Tuesday 12th December 2017 at 9.30am in the main hall.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Kind Regards

Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]

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This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

THEME: Christmas

LITERACY:

Book Focus: The story of Christmas

During the remaining week and a half of this term the children will be learning more about Christmas, why it is celebrated and how it is celebrated around the world.

Phonics: We will continue to revise the Phase 2 phonemes and how to form each grapheme. The children will also practise reading the 5 tricky words learnt thus far Please continue to use the daily decoding homework to support your child with learning to blend sounds to read short cvc words. Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading the sounds and words using their phonic knowledge. Help them to point under each sound as they say each sound, then sweep their finger across the word as they blend to decode the word. Please keep these sheets at home

MATHS:

This week we will revise concepts about numeral and quantity match and will also explore aspects of shape and measure through our Christmas related activities such as weighing presents and ordering by weight.

EAD: The children have been practising well for their musical performance to you on Tuesday. Also this week they will enjoy creating and making a range of Christmas related crafts in the creative areas of the classroom. [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e50d10″ ]HOMEWORK: Please return homework by Wednesday

A letter to Santa

Please support your child to write a short letter to Santa about what they may want for Christmas or just a note to ask a Santa a question. Please encourage your child to write by themselves using their knowledge of letter sounds but you may scribe for them if they find this challenging.

Books for home reading

Please note which day your child will be expected to return their books:

Mondays- Red group

Tuesdays- Blue group

Wednesdays- Green group

Thursdays- Orange Group

Fridays – Yellow group (Apologies to Yellow group, due to rehearsals last Friday we were unable to change Yellow group books and will do so on Monday)

 

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12th December: Reception Christmas Performance to parents at 9.30am in main hall

15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day

19th December: Class Christmas party. Children to wear their own clothes to school

20th December: Last day of term

3rd January 2018: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fcfe99″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents

Huge thanks again for supporting our 2nd bake sale.

On Friday we raised a further £108.10, bringing our Fun Friday Fundraising total to £273.50. We are just £126.50 away from reaching that £400 goal! We hope to continue our fundraising efforts with more Fun Friday events in the new year.

Thank you very much to our parent volunteers for setting up and manning the bake sale on Friday.

Kind regards

Miss Pillay [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#11ccba” ]IMPORTANT DATES

4th, 5th, 6th December: Book fair. 3.30 to 3.50 in the school hall.

9th December: FOH Christmas Fair 11am to 3pm.

12th December: Reception Christmas Performance to parents at 9.30am

15th December: Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day

20th December: Last day of term

3rd January 2018: Children return to school[/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#40ad08″ ]HOMEWORK: Please return homework by Wednesday

Learning about Space

Can you draw a picture of the planets in our Solar System? Can you use your knowledge of initial sounds to write labels for each planet in your picture? Which is the smallest planet? Which is the biggest planet? [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#0a0fde” ]This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

LITERACY: Book Focus: A range of Space themed non-fiction texts

This week we will explore the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts

Phonics: We are revising all the Phase 2 sounds learnt thus far and will continue to teach assisted blending to support their ability to read short decodable cvc words. The children have also learnt the first 5 high frequency/tricky words (I, the, to, go, no) which are not phonetically decodable yet so can be learnt through repetitive practice. A good idea to practise at home would be to write each of these 5 words on paper or card and attach on cupboards or doors at home and encourage your child to recognise and read them daily.

Please continue to use the daily decoding homework to support your child with learning to blend sounds to read short cvc words. Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading the sounds and words using their phonic knowledge. Help them to point under each sound as they say each sound, then sweep their finger across the word as they blend to decode the word. Please keep these sheets at home

MATHS: This week the children will explore each of the numerals 0-20 as a quantity using concrete objects and pictorial representations to correspond to a given numeral.

EAD: Please use the videos below to practise the Christmas songs your child will be singing at their performance to you on Tuesday 12th December 2017[/dropshadowbox]