Thursday 28 June 2018

Reception and KS1 Sports Day

Sports day for Reception will take place on Tuesday 3rd July at 1.30, parents are welcome to attend. Reception children can come to school that day wearing their sports wear and trainers. 

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Monday 25 June 2018

Reception Newsletter 25.06.18

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Term: Summer 2                     Date: 25.06.18

Dear Parents,

We have a short week this week as we have the school trip on Thursday and an INSET day (staff training day) on Friday.  We will be reading the text ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and carrying out related tasks.

Thank you to all of the parents who have completed the online form for the trip and paid the voluntary contribution.

Our Learning Objectives for this week are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
ELG: Children are confident to try new activities.
ELG: They say when they do and don’t need help.
ELG: They show sensitivity to others needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
                      
Communication and Language:
ELG: They answer how and why questions about their experiences and respond to  stories or events.
ELG: They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting idea or events.
ELG: They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.

Physical Development:
ELG: Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements.
ELG: They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
ELG: Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.

Literacy:
ELG: They write some simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
ELG: Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
ELG: They also write some irregular common words.

Mathematics:
ELG: They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
ELG: Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
Expressive Art and Design:
ELG: Children use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
ELG: They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.

Understanding the World:
ELG: They know that other children don't always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
ELG: Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Important Notices:

Walking down the ramp:
It is that time of year when  we start to encourage the children to develop their independence skills even further and walk down the ramp with their peers.  If you feel you child is ready, please encourage them to do so. Parents and carers can stand at the top of the ramp and watch them walk safely in their classrooms. This usually helps with the transition in Year 1.
            
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Learning Challenge
Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.
The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class. Please find some ideas in the table below.  Please ensure the completed challenge is handed in to your child’s teacher by Monday 16th July, so that the certificates can be prepared.
Person:  Tinkerbell or Captain Hook
Piece of Music: George Frideric Handel Water Music
Nursery Rhyme: A Sailor went to sea

  1. Learn it off by heart.
  2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
  3. Find out about the rhyme
  1. Draw a portrait of the person.
  2. Find out facts about the person.

  1. Watch the person in action.
  1. Listen to the piece of music
  2. Create some movements to the music
  3. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
  4. Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
 
Dates for your Diary:
      
Sharing Assemblies -  Aspen Wednesday 4th July
Paradise Park -  Trip for children - Thursday 28th June

     The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:
      INSET Days (Non Pupil Days)
       
Friday 29th June  
Friday 20th July

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address   is eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
      Kind regards              

     The Reception Team

Nursery Newsletter 25.6.18

Dear Parent/Carer,

Summer Term is always very busy with lots of exciting events planned for the children. Here are the key dates for the half term:


Inset Day: Friday 29th June School closed for staff training. 

Broadford Reception Intake Meeting: 26th June 6pm (This is for adults not children) 
Sports Day - Thursday 5th of July - 9.30 - 10.30am This will include AM and PM children. 
Go Bonkers - 10th July (This children will have the chance to enjoy a field full of bouncy castles)
Nursery Graduation: Wednesday 18th July - 9.30am Morning children  1.45pm Afternoon children 
Last day of term: Thursday 19th July 

Expressive Arts and Design
The children will explore colours and color mixing using food coloring and water. Using pipettes they can put drops of the colour on paper towels and watch as it spreads and mixes. 

Knowledge of the World
Children sort animals according to whether they live in the sea, land or air. 

Maths 
Recognising and starting to order numbers. The children will have to match the dino charge numbers this week following their interests! 

Literacy
We are starting to listen for an sort the initial sounds in words. For example the children are learning mouse starts with the sound m and sounds different to the sound s in snake. 
They are also playing lots of games to encourage oral blending this means hearing the sounds c-a-t and putting the word together to say cat. At this stage this is oral and the children will not be recognising the letters. 

Cooking 
Next week we will be exploring different fruits to create our own fruit salads. The children will be encouraged to name the different fruits, think about how we need to open the fruits to eat them and of course taste them! They will be involved in peeling, chopping and slicing. 

Kind Regards,
The Nursery Team 





Monday 18 June 2018

Reception Newsletter 18.06.18


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Term: Summer 2                     Date: 18.06.18


Dear Parents,


This week we will be reading the non-fiction text ‘The way to school’, we will be encouraging the children to think about different ways of travelling to school.


Thank you to all of the parents who have completed the online form for the trip and paid the voluntary contribution. Please do so asap if you haven't yet. The link is below:



Our Learning Objectives for this week are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
ELG: They say when they do and don’t need help.
ELG: They show sensitivity to others needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
ELG: They work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow the rules.
                      
Communication and Language:
ELG: They answer how and why questions about their experiences and respond to  stories or events.
ELG: They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting idea or events.
ELG: They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.


Physical Development:
ELG: They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
ELG: Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
ELG: To move confidently in a range of ways.


Literacy:
ELG: They write some simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
ELG: Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
ELG: They also write some irregular common words.


Mathematics:
ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
ELG: Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
ELG: They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
Expressive Art and Design:
ELG: They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.


Understanding the World:
ELG: They know that other children don't always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
ELG: Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Important Notices:


Walking down the ramp:
It is that time of year when  we start to encourage the children to develop their independence skills even further and walk down the ramp with their peers.  If you feel you child is ready, please encourage them to do so. Parents and carers can stand at the top of the ramp and watch them walk safely in their classrooms. This usually helps with the transition in Year 1.
            
        Messages.
Learning Challenge
Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.
The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class. Please find some ideas in the table below.  Please ensure the completed challenge is handed in to your child’s teacher by Monday 16th July, so that the certificates can be prepared.
Person:  Tinkerbell or Captain Hook
Piece of Music: George Frideric Handel Water Music
Nursery Rhyme: A Sailor went to sea


  1. Learn it off by heart.
  2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
  3. Find out about the rhyme
  1. Draw a portrait of the person.
  2. Find out facts about the person.

  1. Watch the person in action.
  1. Listen to the piece of music
  2. Create some movements to the music
  3. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
  4. Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
 
Dates for your Diary:
      
Sharing Assemblies -  Aspen Wednesday 4th July
Paradise Park -  Trip for children - Thursday 28th June


     The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:
      INSET Days (Non Pupil Days)
       
Friday 29th June  
Friday 20th July


If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address   is eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
      Kind regards              


     The Reception Team

Thursday 14 June 2018

Sink or Swim?

This week Reception have been reading Lost and Found. The story written by Oliver Jeffers is about a boy and a penguin. The boy does some research and discovers penguins are from the South Pole and sets of in his row boat to return the lost penguin. It turns out the penguin is not lost or sad, he is just lonely!

The children’s task in Apple Class was to build a boat for the penguin to ride in. The children used the language float and sink as they discussed what they wanted their boats to do. They thought about the materials they wanted to use and looked at a variety of pictures of boats for inspiration. The children had to collaborate and discuss their ideas and how they were going to achieve these. This proved a little tricky to start with but after a few prompts everyone got into the swing of sharing their ideas and listening to each other. The children were very resourceful and they came up with a wide range of designs using a variety of materials. 

The best bit.... testing them! The water tray was relocated to the carpet and the cheering and blowing began. The majority of the boats successfully floated and everyone had great fun testing them. Exhausted from all the cheering it was time for story and home. I think we might be making some more boats tomorrow! Unfortunately our water tray may have leaked a little and now we have a rather wet carpet in Apple class, oops! 


Reception Trip - Squid up and running!

After a few squid teething problems you will be pleased to hear the Paradise Park trip can now be found on your sQuid accounts:


We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming trip to Paradise Wildlife Park on Thursday 28th June.

We are asking for a voluntary £10 contribution per child, this will go some way towards paying the entry fee and the cost of the coach.

For further information and the permission form to complete, please follow this link:

Trip Form

Monday 11 June 2018

Reception Trip to Paradise Wildlife Park





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We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming trip to Paradise Wildlife Park on Thursday 28th June.

We are asking for a voluntary £10 contribution per child, this will go some way towards paying the entry fee and the cost of the coach.

For further information and the permission form to complete, please follow this link:













11.06.18 Reception Newsletter

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Term: Summer 2                     Date: 11.06.18

Dear Parents,

This week we will be reading ‘Lost and found’, it is also ‘Healthy Eating Week’ so we will be carrying out linked activities.

Please look out for our trip form on facebook/blogger this will need to be completed by the end of the week.

Our Learning Objectives for this week are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
ELG: They show sensitivity to others needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
ELG: They work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow the rules.
ELG: Children are confident to try new activities, and say why they like some activities more than others.
                      
Communication and Language:
ELG: They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting idea or events.
ELG: They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
ELG: They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.

Physical Development:
ELG: They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
ELG: Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
ELG: To move confidently in a range of ways.

Literacy:
ELG: Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
ELG: They also write some irregular common words.
ELG: To write simple sentences which can be read by them and others.

Mathematics:
ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
ELG: Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
ELG: They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
Expressive Art and Design:
ELG: They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.

Understanding the World:
ELG: They know that other children don't always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
ELG: Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Important Notices:

Walking down the ramp:
It is that time of year when  we start to encourage the children to develop their independence skills even further and walk down the ramp with their peers.  If you feel you child is ready, please encourage them to do so. Parents and carers can stand at the top of the ramp and watch them walk safely in their classrooms. This usually helps with the transition in Year 1.
            
        Messages.
Learning Challenge
Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.
The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class. Please find some ideas in the table below.  Please ensure the completed challenge is handed in to your child’s teacher by Monday 16th July, so that the certificates can be prepared.
Person:  Tinkerbell or Captain Hook
Piece of Music: George Frideric Handel Water Music
Nursery Rhyme: A Sailor went to sea

  1. Learn it off by heart.
  2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
  3. Find out about the rhyme
  1. Draw a portrait of the person.
  2. Find out facts about the person.

  1. Watch the person in action.
  1. Listen to the piece of music
  2. Create some movements to the music
  3. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
  4. Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
 
Dates for your Diary:
      
Sharing Assemblies - Alder   Wednesday 13th June
                                      Aspen Wednesday 4th July
Paradise Park -  Trip for children - Thursday 28th June

     The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:
      INSET Days (Non Pupil Days)
       
Friday 29th June  
Friday 20th July

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address   is eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
      Kind regards              

     The Reception Team