Reception - Wednesday 31st October.

It was a real joy to see all of the children again on Tuesday and we hope you all had a wonderful week.

Notices:
1. Next Friday is our class assembly at 9:20am in the school hall, you are all welcome to come and watch.
2. Forest Schools = Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore groups will do the next two weeks.
                                Winnie, Owl and Rabbit groups will be for 3 weeks after that, commencing           Wednesday 21st November. Wrap up warm!!!!!!!
3. We will begin Monday story time again from next Monday. Join us at 3:10 to share our end of day story.
4. The week after next, w/c 12/11/18, we will be having a multi cultural themed week. If you speak another language at home or are from another country with a different culture and would like to come in and celebrate it with us by either reading a story in a different language, teaching us a song or game from your culture, do some cooking or organise an activity for the children to do in order to experience and celebrate with you, then please come and see one of the team next week. I know the children would learn a lot and are very curious about the world.

5. If you are still experiencing difficulties accessing tapestry, please send an email to the school office - thank you.

Following recent RWInc assessments, we have grouped the children into smaller groups. The RWInc home learning will begin again from next week and will be specific to your child's current group.

I will aim to write in all the Bear Hunt Books by the end of the week.

Our learning this week has been based around pumpkins, spiders, bats and spells beginning with the book Room on a Broom (please do share this story at home if you have it.) We have been exploring pumpkins in the sensory area, making pumpkins, bats and spiders from playdough, reading in the dark bat cave, mark making in the magical, glittery cauldron using wands, writing spells and so much more..........I can just feel the magic!!!!!!!



Tomorrow is PANTS day (you can wear a silly pair of pants over your clothes in support of the NSPCC campaign if you want to). We will be teaching an age appropriate lesson to discuss the topic. You are welcome to come to one of the NSPCC parent work shops tomorrow (9:00 in pre-school hall or 3:00pm in the main school staff room.)

The communication box will be up and running by the end of this week.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs. Johnson and "The A-Team"

Reception - Thursday 18th Oct.

It was an absolute pleasure to meet with you all this week to share the wonderful start your children have made in Reception.


If you were unable to make it, please do email me to arrange a more convenient time!

Our trip was a huge success. It was a glorious day to  explore the woods...........we even found a real bear asleep in it's den. It had flown all the way from darkest Peru to deliver a special gift which we will be opening tomorrow! We climbed, explored, balanced, made collages, made camp fires and potions in the mud kitchen.

Tomorrow we look forward to seeing the children dressed as bears (if they want to) and to our teddy bears picnic in the afternoon.

See you all tomorrow!

Happy half term - we hope it is restful, relaxing and fun!



Mrs. Johnson and the "Roarsome" Reception Team.

Reception: this week!

Hi Everyone,

Our final week of the first half term...........wow! Super achievement Reception.


We have our trip this Thursday morning - we need between 6 - 8 volunteers to accompany us in order for the trip to take place. If you can help, please let me know. You will need to meet us at the  location's car park for 10am and we are being picked up by the coach at 11:30am.
Do NOT bring a snack on Thursday, we will provide one. The children will need to wear school tops, have a coat depending on the weather - if they wear trainers but we can pop wellies on if it is wet. (We have been to carry out our risk assessment and it wasn't muddy, but who knows what the week will bring!) We will check tomorrow if there are any outstanding trip slips to be handed in.

Our Teddy Bears Picnic is on Friday afternoon from 2:30pm, please return the reply slip so that we know how many people are able to come. Reception can dress as a bear on Friday!


I am very much looking forward to parent consultations this week.

Tomorrow afternoon is the first of our Story sessions that you are welcome to come to at 3pm in our classroom. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as can make it!

Many thanks,

See you all in the morning,

Mrs. Johnson and the Awesome Reception Team!

Reception - learning this week and new ideas!

Thank you to all of you who were able to come to the Harvest Assembly and for all your contributions. The children were fantastic - so confident!!!!!

This week we are continuing our bears topic, based around the book "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". Please do share it at home if you have a copy.


We have been really impressed at how Reception are coming in in the mornings and going to their group for their early bird task - they have been very settled and ready to learn at carpet time.

The team and I have enjoyed seeing the super sound work that is going on at home and recorded in your red books - if you would like to mix it up a bit, how about going on a walk and collecting some items with those initial letter sounds, or taking some chalk to a park/outside and writing them (take a photo), someone even practised writing them on the shower door glass!!!!!!!!

We hope you are enjoying your Time to Talk home learning.

Don't forget to sign up for the parent consultation evenings next week, and do pop and see me if you are having trouble with times. Equally, please do keep in contact with us, we really value your feed back and ideas - either speak to a member of the team or email me directly.

To finish our bears topic we will be celebrating with a joint teddy bears picnic on the last day of term, Friday 19th October, where you will be invited to come in at 2:30 to join us. A letter will come home shortly. PLEASE COULD THE CHILDREN DRESS UP AS A BEAR FOR THIS DAY (please don't go and buy a costume - something black, brown or white and some face paint/woolly hat and gloves or a mask would be brilliant.) We will also be asking the children to bring in their favourite teddy bear next week too.


New things to introduce: We would like to invite whoever collects their child on a Monday, to come in to class at 3pm to share the class story time - We would like to make this a weekly event but we also realise that some of you are unable to make it - if you can't make it, maybe you could let me know an alternative day or time so that we can occasionally change it to suit everyone.

After half term, I would like to offer some demonstration read write inc sessions which will happen after morning drop off - I will email these sessions during the week.

Thank you for you positivity and continued support!

Reception - reminders and learning!

A few reminders: Thursday = dress like a farmer day (if you want to)
Friday = Harvest assembly 9:15 in the school hall. You will be able to buy the bakes that each class have been busy making. Harvest donations will be greatly received. Friday evening = POWSA Autumn Fest (see the office for tickets)

If you have any evidence to support achieving a stamp in the POW Passport, please bring it in.

The WOWs are coming in thick and fast and are wonderful - well done!

We have also thoroughly enjoyed reading your Time to Talk Home Learning - very imaginative! Equally, we have been so impressed at your RWInc Home Learning - incredible effort and enthusiasm - keep it up!!!!

Today Pre-School joined us for an afternoon of Harvest themed activities - the children were engaged in bread tasting, leaf rubbing, harvesting vegetables, conker rolling, making snails, role playing Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The story we are focussing on this week is Goldilocks if you would like to read it at home too. This builds fluency, familiarity, expression, repetition.

Nursery rhymes we are currently singing are: Old Macdonald had a Farm, Incy Wincy Spider, Little Green Frog, Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, Pat-a-Cake Pat-a-Cake, One, Two, Three Four Five Once I caught a Fish Alive. Try singing these at home.

Our sound today is "f", this is a stretchy sound. Press your top teeth on to your bottom lip and then try to force air out - NO VOICE. The picture that goes with the sound is "flower".

We focussed on the magic number 3 in the Goldilocks story and  worked out there were 6 lots of 3 (bears, bowls, spoons, cups, chairs, blankets) counting to 18 and estimating as we kept adding the next three.