Week beginning 28th September 2020

September 27, 2020

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It has been a lovely first week of full time learning for the children. They are now quite familiar with the routines and structure of the day and have really enjoyed being at school full time every day.

Please check your child’s bookbag for next week’s lunch menu cards and a letter detailing our school uniform requirements. It is important that all children have the correct school uniform and accessories. Please check and ensure that your child is attired accordingly. The uniform expectations are quite clear to ensure that all children represent the ethos and values of our school. We kindly ask parents, carers to ensure that there are no deviations from the expected uniform guidance.

Please note that Monday 28th September is an INSET day for staff. Children will return to school on Tuesday, 29th September. Please bring in lunch menu cards on Tuesday.

Kind Regards,

Reception Team

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If you do not have other children at our school, we have asked you to arrive at 9.30. Teaching in Reception starts after the 9.30 start. Please be assured that your child will not miss out on learning by arriving at 9.30. This measure has been put in place to reduce congestion at the school entrance by having different start times for the older children and their siblings.

The staff at the main entrance will allow you to enter as soon as the congestion has cleared. Please note that the large gates will be locked by 9.40. If you arrive late, you must ring the bell at the main office, and they will receive your child. Please do not walk up to the Reception playground if you arrive at or after 9.40 as the small gates at the top of the stairs will also be locked. It is important that your child arrives on time to school so that teaching and learning can begin for the day.

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PE LESSONS

Thank you for ensuring your child was suitably dressed for PE on these days:

  • Grosvenor Class: every Thursday morning
  • Chelsea Class: every Friday morning

On the day your child has PE, they must come to school dressed in their PE clothing:

  • Plain black jogging bottoms (cold weather) or plain black PE shorts (hot weather)
  • Royal Blue school logo PE T-shirt

and their:

  • Royal Blue School logo jumper/cardigan
  • Plain black School shoes (NO PE plimsolls or PE trainers). Children will change into PE shoes for the PE lesson only. PE shoes will remain at school in their royal blue school logo PE kit bag which will also contain spare clothing.

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AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Autumn 1 -All about me

Literacy, CAL and PSED Focus:

Focus Book: Marvelous Me: Inside and Out by Lisa Bullard

We will read this delightful book with its many themes as a great starting point from which the children will learn to :

  • explore and embrace the things that make them unique.
  • identify some of their emotions and feelings. We will introduce the different colours that can represent our emotions as part of our Zones of Regulation programme. This week we will introduce green and red zones. You can find out more about the colours here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCBUfrNv7I
  • learn the vocabulary to name the main parts of their body and describe their features eg long or short hair, curly or straight hair, light or dark brown eyes, taller or shorter than.

PE focus: The children will learn how to move around a large space with confidence; how to change direction and speed; how to avoid colliding with each other or objects in their path and how to stop quickly by listening and looking for visual signals given by the teacher.

Maths Focus: The children will explore the language of measure: how tall or short something is, how heavy or light something is, how far or near something is, how full or empty something is

EAD Focus: the children will learn how to create and paint their own self-portraits.

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