recycling

Recycling Christmas Cards in the New Year

Please help us recycle your Christmas cards for the Woodland Trust Scheme.
We're asking you to recycle your Christmas cards to help us turn your cards into trees!

For every 1,000 cards dropped in to Marks & Spencer stores for recycling throughout January 2017, a new tree can be planted!

In the New Year, please bring any Christmas cards to the foyer outside the school office where there will be a bin. Do bunch these together and place a slip with the amount you are posting into our bin - this way the children will be able to calculate quickly whether we have collected enough to plant one or two trees. Please do not put loose cards in. The recycling bin will be in the foyer form the start of term. If you can, please do support this worthwhile venture. We will then make arrangements for the cards to be transported to Marks & Spencer at the end of the January 2017.

We wonder how many trees we can donate?!

Reception - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Hello everyone,

Firstly, a massive well done to all the reception children for their first performance of 'The Sleepy Shepherd’ this morning. Some super singing and everyone should feel very proud of their effort!

With lots of things happening over the next few days I thought it would be useful to note down what would be happening on each day for the remainder of the week!

Wednesday - Christmas play at 10.00am (doors open at 9.40am). 

Thursday - Final Christmas play at 10.00am. Christmas Party lunch is on this day so please bring in your contribution. If it needs to be stored in the fridge we can do this in the morning. Also, we'll be haivng our class party in the afternoon!!

Friday - Last day of term. Children can bring in a soft toy from home (limited to 1 please). As well as this children are welcome to wear a Christmas jumper for the day. We ask for a donation of £1 to support the 'Save the Children' charity. Thank you. Children will also be bringing home their PE kits as well as other Christmas arts and crafts that we have been busily making. Finally, from 3.00pm, you are welcome to join us in the hall for a carol service! This will finish at 3.30pm.

If you have any questions please come and speak to one if us!

Reception team

Reception - Tomorrow morning

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow morning we will have all children's PE bags out on the tables with their things that they need to get changed into for the Christmas play. We have had a couple of attempts today but any help in the morning would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. This will be the case for the next few days whilst we are doing the plays. Children can then go onto their Teddy Job once they are changed.

Reception team

Recycle Christmas Cards in the New Year

In the New Year, please bring any Christmas cards to the foyer outside the school office where there will be a box. We will make arrangements for the box to be transported to Marks & Spencer at the end of the month.

Please help us recycle your Christmas cards for the Woodland Trust Scheme.
We're asking you to recycle your Christmas cards to help us turn your cards into trees!

For every 1,000 cards dropped in to Marks & Spencer stores for recycling throughout January 2017, a new tree can be planted!

DM

 

Christmas perfomances

It is time once again for our Christmas productions!

Reception, Year 1 and 2 are performing Sleepy Shepherd -10am

 

Years 3 and 4 are performing Roald Dahl’s Jack and the Beanstalk – 11am

There will be refreshments by POWSA between the shows.

On the day of the performances the front doors will open at 9.40am. Please enter via the School Office entrance.

Technology day (9/12/16)

A ‘Christmassy, art and crafty’ day was enjoyed by all on Friday 9^th December. It was the POW school annual ‘Technology day’ when children select three activities in which they wish to create a Christmas themed piece of art/ design work.  The manner in which children moved around the school, worked well within the mixed up age groups was superb. All children were displaying our resilient tortoise in tackling activities and the older children were lending a hand in helping organise the younger children’s work, showing the next steps in how to produce an item. Super skills from one and all! Some products made have been added to this blog.

Thank you finally to all parents who managed to join for some/ or all of the day, the extra pairs of hands very much helped!

 

Reception - Last Week information!

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow we will be having our dress rehearsal ready for the plays this coming week. Thank you to everyone that has bought a T-shirt in already. Please come and see us if you are having difficulty finding a red or green T-shirt! Hopefully you have all got your tickets ready for the Christmas Nativity play and we look forward to seeing you all there.

All the children enjoyed Christmas Technology day on Friday! We hope you got to see all the lovely things that they bought home at the end of the day! This is an annual event that has been enjoyed for many years now. 

Our class party will be on Thursday afternoon! Thank you to everyone that has signed up for the food list outside the classroom door. We will leave the list up until Wednesday afternoon so please have a look.

Finally, on Friday (last day of term) we are inviting children to come into school with a teddy or soft toy for the day! We will inform the children that there will be a limit of one toy that they can bring along for the day! However, there will be no limit on size!! As well as this, Friday will also be Christmas jumper day! 

On Friday we will be sending home all PE kits for a nice wash! Ready for the Sprign term!

Lots of information, if you are unsure abour anything or need clarifying, please catch one of us in the morning or after school!

Reception team

Reception - T-shirts for Christmas play

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder about the red or green t-shirts for our Christmas play next week. We are having a dress rehearsal on Monday so it would be fantastic if we had all children's t-shirts in by then! Thank you to everyone that has already bought in theirs. If you are struggling to find a red or green t-shirt please come and see us! Thank you for your support.

Reception team

Reception - Technology day!

Hello everyone,

We have been very busy learning our Christmas play this week and the children have been showing us their fantastic concentration and patience so a big pat on the back for this! If you haven't got your tickets yet, please head to the office and they will be able to help you. The play will be on next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday! We look forward to seeing lots of you there!

This Friday is Christmas Technology Day in school. This is a whole day where children head off to different parts of the school to work with different adults doing different activities, using various skills and techniques. All the reception children have chosen their 3 choices for the day and will hopefully be able to bring all the things that they make on Friday home with them! If you want to send your child into school with a bag then please pop it in their tray or bookbag. 

If there is anyone who is available to help for the day, or part of the day, then please come and let us know! It is a busy, fun day that children enjoy taking part in.

Reception team

Christmas fair, 2nd December

What a busy, Christmassy feel to the school yesterday evening! The school was full of children and our families making the realisation that Christmas is nearly knocking on our doors!

The school would like to thank you for your support, for the goodies donated and for spending those pennies! All which will be ploughed into making the children's learning and environments a richer place to learn in.

A huge thank you also to everyone who has helped in preparing for the Christmas fair, preparations, laying out and running stalls to tidying up at the end. Thank you to POWSA.

Reception - Sounds this week

Hello everyone,

We are still pressing on with learning our new sounds, despite the festive season being here! The sounds for this week are below. We are also beginning to have a closer look at writing cursive letter shapes. These can be complex to begin with but we will really be getting stuck in from January! More to follow.

'ai' as in aim - Cup hand over ear and say ai, ai, ai.

'ee' as in green - Put hands on head as if ears on a donkey and say eeyore, eeyore.

'igh' as in night - Stand to attention and salute, saying ie ie. (or point to eye)

Please do bring in any home learning that children do at home because we love to see it and show it to the class if children want to!

 

Reception team

Reception - Class Party Lunch

 

Hello everyone,

On Thursday 15th December reception will be having their Christmas Party lunch and afternoon. We will all be staying in the classroom on this day to have a picnic lunch together! Hot dinners have been cancelled for this day. We will be putting a list up outside the classroom door for you to sign up to bring an item of food into school on the day to contribute towards the party! There are several different areas to ensure that we don't end up with hundreds of sausage rolls!! Please do not feel like you have to provide home made food, shop bought will be more than fine! If there are any issues please come and see one of us! After this we will be having an afternoon of fun and games in school and will join up wiith years 1 & 2 for a dance and boogie in the hall towards the end of the afternoon. Thank you.

Reception team

Reception - Christmas is here!!!

Hello everyone,

Yes, today we began our last topic of the calendar year... CHRISTMAS! The children were understandably excited; especially about their impending advent calendars! We spoke a bit about Christmas wish lists and looked at a Harry and the Dinosaurs book about Christmas time! Over the next few weeks it does get very busy and things happen everyday! We will attempt to keep you up to date with anything that is happening! We have begun our preparation for the Christmas plays today and thank you to those that bought in their red or green t-shirt to wear for the performances! If you want to get your tickets for the Christmas plays then please head to the office and they will help you. 

This Friday is the schools Christmas Fair! It begins at 3.30pm and goes on until 5.00pm. You are welcome to take your child to this straight after school! There will be lots to do!

Reception team

Reception - Woodland feast tomorrow!

Hello all,

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the reception classes 'Woodland Feast'. Please feel free to come along from 3.00pm to celebrate with your child. If you head towards the reception outdoors gate (as normal) it will be open for you!! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Reception team

Parents phonics session- 23.11.16

Thank you to everyone that attended the phonics sessions yesterday. We hope that you found them useful. Below are the links to the websites which we mentioned in the presentation. If you have any questions or would like the handout that we gave out please do come and see Mr Gibson or myself.

A brilliant website that has lots of videos that the children can watch and repeat the sounds-

http://mrthorne.com/

Buried treasure, dragon’s den and picnic and Pluto (games we showed in the presentation)

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase3Menu.htm

Pronunciation video clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksblMiliA8

Mrs Thorpe

Reception - Info for this week...

Hello everyone,

The sounds we have been learning this week are listed below. We hope that the phonics session was useful today, if you were unable to come and would like to know what was discussed please come and find one of us in the morning! 

'sh' as in shop - Place index finger over lips and say shshsh.

'ch' as in chop - Move arms at sides as if you are a train and say ch, ch, ch

'th' as in think - Pretend to be naughty clowns and stick out tongue a little for the th

'ng' as in thing - Imagine you are a weightlifter, and pretend to lift a heavy weight

 above your head, saying ng...

Just another remind that we are having a Woodland feast this Friday from 3.00pm. All are welcome to come along! There will be food, if that helps you to make the decision! 

Finally, there will be a letter coming home this week about costumes for our Christmas Nativity play, which we will be beginning next week!!!

Reception team

Reception - Phonics workshop

Hi all,

Just a quick note to say that there are still spaces on the phonics workshops this week! They are taking place on Wednesday (23rd) at 9.00am and 3.00pm for half an hour. You will have had a letter home about it but please come and see us if you would like to come along, or turn up on the morning! 

Reception team

Reception - Woodland Feast This Friday!

Hi all,

Just to say a MASSIVE well done to all the children for their efforts in the class assembly on Friday! It is a very big thing to do, to stand up at the front and speak in front of lots of people but we felt that everyone handled it really well! Thank you to everyone that came as well, we hope you enjoyed it!

Secondly, this Friday we are going to be having a 'Woodland Feast' at school to celebrate the end of our Gruffalo topic! There is an opportunity for you to come in to school early on Friday to see what we have been up to as well as try some of the food we have been making over the last couple of weeks. You are invited to come into the classroom from 3.00pm on Friday! We will be doing more work this week for you to taste and see. We hope to see lots of you there but if you cannot make it, children will remain in school until 3.30pm as normal! Thank you.

Reception team

Wow! Lots of money raised for Children in Need

Thank you so much to everyone who bought some of the Children in Need merchandise, donated money for wearing something spotty and made and bought cakes. 

The Prince of Wales School made an amazing £505!!!

Reception - Sounds this week

Hi all,

This week we have been learning a couple of sounds that have 2 letters in! These get a little trickier for children to learn so we will be using them in lots of different contexts throughout the rest of the year. This weeks sounds are

'z' as in zip - Put arms out at sides and pretend to be a bee, saying zzzzzz.

'qu' as in quack - Make a duck's beak with your hands and say qu, qu, qu

'sh' as in ship - Place index finger over lips and say shshsh.

Final reminder that it is our class assembly tomorrow morning! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Reception team

Reception - Children in Need this Friday

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder that this Fridy is Children in Need day. As a school we are having a non-school uniform day with the theme being something bright and spotty! We then ask for a donation towards Children in Need.

Also, after school there will be a cake sale out the front of the school that you are all welcome to come along to and buy CAKES! thank you. 
It is also our class assembly this day too but children will not need to wear their school uniform, they will look wonderful in whatever they come to school in!

Reception team

Reception - Home learning for 'The Gruffalo'

Hi all,

As we move further and further into the year we are increasing the amount of time that children are working on tasks and activities set by the adults in the classroom. Children will be taught the skills needed to be successful and given the tools they need to help them learn! We are always encouraging independence in learning and we are seeing some very positive attitudes so far! Any learning that takes place at home is fantastic to us and we would love to see anything that you have made, written, or drawn at home! 

With that in mind, we have put some potential home learning ideas down below for you to have a go at! Home learning in reception is not compulsory but can be a great way to show children early on the importance and value of learning at home. We've linked most of the ideas below to our current topic of the Gruffalo...

• Create your own creature like the Gruffalo! You could then challenge yourself to add some labels to describe the different features.
• Find 2 rhyming words for each of these words: Fox, Mouse & Snake.
• Find out one piece of information about either a fox, a mouse, an owl or a snake.
• Write the word 'Gruffalo' in as interesting way as you can.
• Find 5 different numbers around your house and write them down, i.e door number

As previously said, it is not an expectation for children to bring in home learning and please don't feel like you have to complete every one of the above activities! Just one would be brilliant. There is also no deadline for bringing bits in! We hope to see lots of different pieces of home learning! Thank you.

Reception team