Week beginning 12th June 2017

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#affbf1″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents/Carers of Grosvenor Class

We wish to thank you for your understanding over the past few weeks and for supporting Miss Kowalczyk who has been covering Grosvenor Class during Mrs Keer’s absence.

I am sure you are aware that we are fast approaching the end of your child’s year in Reception. As such we are taking steps to prepare your child for their transition into Year 1 in September and so we ask that you please support us to ensure your child makes a smooth transition over the remaining few weeks. You could help us to do this by ensuring that your child enters the classroom by themselves so they can make a swift start to their morning routines.

You could start by:

• saying your goodbyes in the hallway and swiftly exiting to allow other parents to do the same as the hallway can become quite crowded in the mornings

• handing your child their book bag and other belongings before they enter the school building, giving them an opportunity to develop a sense of independence and self-confidence

If you have any concerns about your child separating from you in the morning, please let us know so we can discuss a few strategies that may help develop their sense of independence.

Thank you, if this is something you are already doing with your child.

Kind regards

Miss Pillay

Early Years Lead [/dropshadowbox]

Week beginning 1^st May 2017.

Unfortunately the whole school photo had to be cancelled on Friday as the playground wes deemed to be too small to house us all. We are hoping to reschedule this soon, using an alternate venue.

THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:

Our topic for the next few weeks will be Minibeasts and our learning will centre around this.

LITERACY:

Our book for this week will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, to link in with our topic. The children will story map using their phonetic knowledge learnt so far to write. We will also be encouraging them to be more independent, think of their own sentence and then write it.

PHONICS:

The Reception children have now been grouped following our assessments at the end of last term. They will be working in phase 2,3, and 4 according to individual needs.

KEY WORD LISTS:

Your child will continue to bring home the animal word lists. These are the key words that occur most frequently in books your child will read in Reception and beyond. We have added additional lists as some children have finished the first set of words.

The word lists will encourage your child to learn to read these words and start to instantly recognise and sight read them in the books they read. When they are confident with reading the words bring them in to class so Mrs Keer or Miss Dale can check them. Well done to those children who are progressing through the lists really well.

MATHS:

We will continue with halving this week, playing some simple games involving the language of halving and using mirrors and numicon tiles to find double. We will then move on to doubling when ready using mirrors and numicon tiles to find double.. We will contiue revise 3D shapes, their names and properties.

READING

Please make sure reading records, reading books and library books are in book bags EVERY day. We read with the children on a weekly basis, not always the same day. We are finding several children do not have books in bags so are unable to change their books. As the children become more confident readers we will sometimes do a small guided reading session with groups of chidren who are at a similar level of reading. We will begin to look at the use of punctuation and adding expression when reading.

Now that the children have learnt all sounds in phase 2 and 3 please try to read with them for 10 minutes every day so they can begin to apply the phonic knowledge they have learnt and ensure they become independent readers. Please take a minute to write a comment in the yellow contact book so we know how they are progressing at home.

ROLE PLAY AREA

We will be turning our role play area into a camp site with a tent, torches and a minibeast investigation table for the children to explore.

Please note

As the weather is hopefully going to be getting warmer can you please ensure children have water bottles in school everyday. Thank you

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

School closes for half term on Friday 26^th May and opens on Tuesday 6^th June.