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

Last day for Operation Christmas child shoe boxes!

Just a reminder that tomorrow will be the last day that we will be taking the 'Operation Christmas child' shoe boxes at school. Mrs Mewitt has kindly said she would take the shoe boxes that people have bought in to school to the drop off point in Weymouth. So if you have a shoe box please bring them in tomorrow. Also please remember that the shoe boxes need £3 in them to support the transportation fees. 

Thank you for supporting this cause

Mrs Thorpe and the Children's Voice

Reception - assembly lines

Hi all,

Today, your child will have come home with their assembly line for this Friday! We have done our first practise today and the children all showed a great attitude. Any practise that you can do at home will be much appreciated. We will be practicing more in school time as well. The class assembly will be this Friday at 9.20am in the school hall. 

Reception team

Children in Need this Friday!!

This Friday (18th) we will be supporting Children in Need. The children should come in dressed in something spotty. We are asking for a 50p donation for this please. 

As well as this, after school on Friday we will be having a bake sale. If you can bakes a cake, biscuits or cupcakes then please do. All cakes to be given to Mrs Thorpe in Year 1 please on Friday morning. 

We will be selling Pudsey key rings and wristbands on Wednesday and Friday after school this week.

Many thanks in advance!

Reception - Phonics

Hello everyone,

This week in phonics we have been carrying on with the sounds of the alphabet. However, next week, we will begin learning sounds that have two and three letters together. This is when phonics does become more complex. There will hopefully be a session for parents to attend very soon! More information to follow! Below are the sounds we have been learning this week...

'w' as in wind - Blow on to open hand, as if you are the wind, and say wh, wh, wh.

'x' as in box - Pretend to hold a camera and click the button down, saying ks, ks, ks.

'y' as in yell - Pretend to be eating a yogurt and say y, y, y.

We have also been learning some tricky words over the past couple of weeks. These are words that cannot be sounded out using phonics and need to be learnt by sight in a lot of instances. We've out the first few below for your information.

• I 
• No
• Go
• To
• The
• Into

Reception team

Reception - Class assembly

Hello everyone,

Just a quick note to give you notice that our class assembly is next Friday (18th November), at 9.20am. You are more than welcome to attend this and can head straight through to the hall after drop off on this day! We have already begun our preparation for this and we hope you enjoy it! 

Reception team

Reception - Thorncombe woods

Hi all,

Today we went off to Thorncombe woods for our first trip on a coach! The children conducted themselves very well even though there was a change in how the morning ran! We had a lovely walk in woods before gathering leaves into big piles! There were some very impressive piles there! After that we collected various different things from the woods and had an extra snack of a chocolate biscuit! There were certainly some tired children this afternoon but a big well done to everyone! There will hopefully be some pictures up on the board tomorrow morning so you can see what we got up to!

Thank you to everyone who came along to help for the morning. We hope that the experience hasn't deterred you from coming on future trips! 

Reception team

Reception - School photos

Hi all,

Just a quick message to say that the individual and sibling photos are taking place next Tuesday (15th) morning. Please could you make sure children have a sweatshirt or cardigan in school on that morning, thank you!

Reception team

Reception - Thorncombe Woods trip tomorrow

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow is the reception classes trip to Thorncombe woods! This is a trip we have run for a few years now with great success. We will be heading to the new Visitor's Centre in the woods to carry out various activities! We will also be linking this trip to our new topic: The Gruffalo. We had a brief introduction today and will be exploring this topic in lots of different ways in the coming weeks. 

For the trip tomorrow please could you send children to school wearing their play clothes. It is up to you whether you send children in with their school tops on or not. Please either wear wellies into school or bring them in a bag. If you do choose to wear them into school, please send in some alternative footwear to put on when we get back to school. And as you are well aware, it has been quite chilly the past few days so please make sure children have plenty of layers on as we will be outside for parts of the trip. We will be back at shool for lunch so a packed lunch will not be required!

If you have volunteered to help on the trip tomorrow, firstly, thank you very much! Please head into school like normal and settle your child in. When hands are clapped please stay in the classroom whilst we prepare children to get onto the coach!

Reception team

All years - Christmas Card Orders - 2nd November 2016

Christmas card orders
We received communication today that the online ordering for the xmas cards has now failed completely. The company are reverting to paper orders and a pack is being sent to school. As far as we are aware any successful online orders are still valid but all others will need to complete paper order forms and bring money to school. This is not an ideal situation however POWSA are at hand to help you solve any issues and can take cash or cheques.

So, on Friday 4 th November and Monday 7 th November before and after school POWSA will be manning a table in the foyer where you can fill in the order forms and hand over cash or cheques.  We apologise for this inconvenience, however this is out of our control and are working hard to make the process successful!

Reception - Phonics this week

Hello everyone,

We have started learning the next phase of sounds this week. Due to the fact that we weren't in school on Monday we'll only be learning two new sounds this week. As the weeks go on the sounds will start to get harder to recognise initially but do not despair! We will be practising them lots over the coming months and I promise that they do get learnt eventually! Any practise that you can do at home will be great with this and will help speed up the process. There will be home learning suggestions on the blog but any extra reading is always a bonus! 

Sounds this week:

'j' as in jam - Pretend to wobble on a plate and say j, j, j.

'v' as in van - Pretend to be holding the steering wheel of a van and say vvvvvv.

Reception team

Christmas card orders

Christmas card orders

Hopefully you have all received your child’s card design? You were given the information to order through the company directly on the back of the art work. The art work needs to come back to school to your child’s classroom, into their envelope - by Friday 4^th November – end of this week, ready to be sent off.

The company will be collecting on Monday 7^th November from our school office, no set time has been given so it is vitally important the art work is back in the class envelope on Friday please.

We are hoping for the cards to be delivered back to school around 22nd November.