This week's events...

Hello everyone,

As we progress through the last week of the half-term we'll be continuing to looking into the 'Seaside' topic we've been covering. There was fantastic home learning brought into school today so thank you for all of that! In literacy this week we are going to be looking at and writing our own postcards. These will be introduced by using the 'Meerkat Mail' story. As well as this we'll be having a go at writing a message in a bottle! In maths this week we're learning about capacity. We'll be ordering different sized containers and tubs and finding out how to prove that one is bigger/smaller than another. Tomorrow we are having a joint morning with pre-school centered around our trip to the beach last week. Today, we also got into our sports day teams and have started the preparation for the sports morning on the 21st June. 

If anyone would like the information given in the parent info session this morning then please let us know and we can pass this along to you. 

Reception team

Reminder - parent informaiton session on Monday!

Hello all,

The children were able to take part in some first aid training today which was fantastic. We learnt about what we should do in a emergency situation. Firstly, shout for help - we have already had cause to use this! Also, how to call the emergency services! Lastly, we learnt about how to put people into the recovery position. Thank you to St. John's Ambulance service for coming in to do this.

Secondly, I thought it would be worthwhile reminding you about the Relationships and Sex Education talk that is taking place on Monday. This will go over what we intend to cover in the reception year. If you have any questions there is also the opportunity to ask away. If you are unable to make it and want to know more about it, please let me know and we can go over the content. 

Reception team

Seaside Home Learning...

Hello everyone,

Firstly, can I just say what a lovely time we had down at Weymouth Beach on Tuesday. The reception children really were a credit to themselves. They participated fully and showed great maturity when helping pre-school children. 

We have begun a Seaside topic that will last the rest of this week and next week too. Below, I've popped some ideas that you could do at home and bring in to school. Good luck!

• Make a beach picture
• Write a list of all the things you would take to the beach.
• Solve this problem: There are 5 crabs in a rockpool. 1 leaves but 4 more come into the rockpool. Later on the crab that left comes back. How many crabs are there in the rockpool?
• Find out the names of 5 different things that live in the sea.
• Write a message to go in a bottle!
• Create your own sea creature and write some labels to describe him/her.
• Find 3 things that float and 3 things that sink.

Reception team

Summer fayre

The Prince of Wales Summer fayre is this Saturday 21^st May, 11 -2pm. Do come along and support the school. The children’s competitions are; make a miniature garden and paint a pebble. We are hoping to place the pebbles afterwards in the school garden. I look forward to seeing you there!

Beach trip tomorrow!

Hi all,

Firstly, thank you to everyone that made cakes for today's bake off. Congratulations to Jasper, Phillippa and Jason! But really, a big well done to everyone! AND, most importantly, thank you to everyone that donated to a great cause after school today. Please feel free to collect tubs and tins from the classroom in the morning. They will all be along the back wall. 

Just a reminder that the beach trip will be tomorrow morning! We will be back in school by lunchtime so please do not worry about a packed lunch. If you have a sun hat at home, it would be very helpful if you could send children in with these tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be good tomorrow. Thank you to everyone that has volunteered to help with this trip! If you come along tomorrow morning we WILL work out a strategy to get you all down to the beach! Thank you.

Reception team

Beach safety assembly - Thursday 12th May

We welcomed the RNLI into school on Thursday 12th May. Ben and Maria came into school to explain to the school about how we can be safe on the beach and in the sea.

The children learned that the red and yellow flag is the flag which lets us know it is safe to go into the water. They also learned about other flags which mean danger possibly for different reasons.


The children brought home leaflets on Friday from the RNLI. Do have a look with your child at the key messages, they were all very interested.

Bake off next Monday!

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder that on Monday we will be holding a 'Bake Off' competition in the reception and pre-school classrooms. If you would like to bring in any cakes, muffins, cupcakes etc. then please bring them in on Monday morning. there will be a small judging session before a cake sale! Winners will be chosen based on how much work the children have done towards the cake as well as the all important taste! There will be no set prices for the cakes; it will be a donation for any cakes you take on. Please consider giving what you can for the SENSE charity.  

Reception team