Reception - Summer Term 2019! Welcome back!

What a glorious Easter it has been...........we really hope you had lots of family time and relaxed!

I can't believe we are now in the summer term!!!!!!!! We have lots of wonderful learning planned and after half term we will be thinking about transition into Year 1!


This half term we will be having a focus on Knowledge and Understanding of the World, beginning with the story Handa's Surprise to inspire learning about Africa. If you don't have a copy of the story and you would like to share it at home you could use this link.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljHii-CK0cE

We will be encouraging curiosity about different cultures, similarities and differences, maps and continents, music, art, travel, animals, food/diet and much much more...........


Forest Schools will begin this WEDNESDAY for Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet for 2 weeks, then we will swap. Please can I ask that you check the weather forecast for the day to send them in with/in appropriate clothes for this session (named sun hats, named sun cream) also they are supposed to have their legs and arms covered for safety reasons. Thank you.

Parent story time will continue on Monday afternoons, please arrive by 3:10pm.

Dates of summer trips, assemblies, events and parent information sessions will come home shortly.

Request: If anyone would like to plant up a hanging basket to donate to our outside area that would be lovely, or indeed donate the basket and liner for the children to do. We have several hooks!

If you would like to leave a named sun hat and named suncream in school, we will look after them. Alternatively, ensure they have one appropriate for the weather on the day. Last term the children were also very interested in staying healthy and are becoming very aware of healthy food and drink choices. Please could you continue to support us with this by ensuring they all have water in their bottles and a healthy snack - treats like chocolate, biscuits, crisps at snack time will be discouraged and by all means provide it for them after school. Thank you for supporting us on this matter.

Don't forget PE kits tomorrow.

See you all tomorrow - we have missed you all and can't wait to hear all about your holiday.

Reception Home Learning coming home tomorrow!

Reception Easter Holiday Home Learning 2019

Choose your learning from this list or add your own ideas!

• Go to the local library and choose some books to read and share, or read stories you have at home.
• Go to the park and climb, run, bounce, swing, walk;ride a bike or a scooter on the way.
• Play a board game.
• Complete a puzzle.
• Go on a Spring walk and notice all the sights, changes and sounds around you - animals, plants, trees, flowers, insects, birds…………can you take some photos using the camera by yourself?
• Draw an Easter picture.
• Make an Easter bonnet.
• Use junk modelling to make a nest, a rabbit, a chick, a lamb, a tree, or a flower……….
• Practise your Fred-talk, play sound “hang-man” (but done with a flower as the picture), practise your handwriting and letter formation.
• Watch the Peter Rabbit film or read the book and write your own story about Peter Rabbit.
• Write an Easter poem.
• Write a story about the Easter bunny or an Easter egg.
• Find out facts about Easter.
• Count how many Easter eggs you get/eat, practise your number formation and recognition, go egg rolling and measure how far your egg goes, weigh your Easter eggs and see which is the heaviest/lightest, make an Easter egg hunt for your family with numbers on the eggs, draw chicks in a nest and count them. Do some adding and taking away number sentences. Count how many days of the holidays you have left before school starts. Read the days of the week on the calendar. Practise telling the O'clock time. Time how long it takes you to do something (eat an easter egg!!!!!).

HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FAMILY!

Reception and Pre-School class trip cancelled!

Good evening Everyone,


Unfortunately, Mrs. Nineham and I had to make a call today to cancel our trip tomorrow. This was due to the weather. There would have been no shelter and trying to picnic, carry out art activities and climb on the equipment it would have been too wet and slippy!

Thank you to those of you who kindly offered to join us on the trip, we really appreciated your offer.

Bring packed lunches as already planned for tomorrow.

We plan to carry out a Spring themed morning on Thursday with fun activities in and around the school grounds weather permitting.

Sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment caused.