Reception Awards - 22.04.22

                                       

Reception Awards

We have had a great first week back in Reception. We have been blessed with some lovely sunny weather.  Another week of amazing learning from our children, it is lovely seeing them making lots of progress.

E for Excellence

Alder: 

Noah, for your independent work during Maths this week. You confidently created number bonds to 10 without support from your practitioner. Well done, Noah!

Apple: 

Elsie for working hard in all areas of her learning and for her positive contributions during carpet sessions. 

Aspen: 

Lirsa, for working hard during our Literacy lessons and sounds out your sentences. You always work so hard. Keep up the great work Lirsa!

 Star Writers 

Alder: 

Callie, for trying so hard during your writing this week. You took your time, used Fred Talk and the sound mat to help you. Well done, Callie!

Apple: 

 

Esmee for trying hard working hard in her writing task this week

Aspen: 

 Alexandra, Great work during Literacy this week! You worked super hard when sounding out your words. Keep up the great work Alexandra!

Learning Power Awards

These are the key skills that our children will need to learn effectively in class and to be successful later in life. 

Reciprocity

These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively, listened to others, displayed empathy and have imitated effective ideas and methods from others. 

This has been awarded to:

Tiger-Lily

Resourcefulness   

These pupils have been curious about learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources. 

This has been awarded to:

Abdul-Hafiiz

Reflectiveness 

These pupils have planned carefully, revised ideas, identified key features and can talk about their learning. 

This has been awarded to:

Iustin

Ronnie

Big well done to Taylor who received the Teacher Happy Award. 

Taylor has worked hard this week, made great choices and show that he can be a great team player. Keep up the amazing work Taylor!

Reading Awards

These children have read five books from our '105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford' and have received the Bronze Reading Award.   

Jaabir

Ronnie

who received the Silver Reading Award. 

Reception Spring 2 Newsletter March 2021

 

Spring 2

Dear Parents and Carers, 

It’s the final countdown…Keep up the excellent work and effort this week. A huge well done to all of you for working so hard remotely! We are so excited to see you all and welcome you back to school! Please read the school blog about back to school arrangements click here for more information. Please note changes to timings. 

Preparing to return to school blog.

This half term we will be starting our ‘Superheroes - fact or fiction?’ topic. 

We started our topic last week with Superkid and Healthy Eating. We will be reading the stories Supertato, Superworm, Juniper Jupiter, Izzy Gizmo and learning more about real life superheroes too.

Communication and Language 

Providing the children with the opportunity to retell the stories in their own words, act them out in their play as well as making up their own stories based on superheroes. The children will be talking about what they would do if they were a superhero. What would their special power be and how would they use it? These all help children develop their communication and language skills.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term we will be focusing on settling in,  and  well-being. Supporting the children to learn to play with others and make friends, understand and talk about feelings, develop independence and ultimately feel happy, good and confident about themselves.

Physical Development

This term we will be focusing on our letter and number formation, ensuring the children have the right patterns, formation and direction. It is vital we encourage these from the beginning, so the children do not form bad habits. We ask if your child is writing at home and forms a letter or number backwards that you work with them to write it the correct way.

 We will also be continuing with fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles. Of course we will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas and during PE lessons.

Literacy

We will continue with our daily RWI lessons, focusing on our ‘special friends’, two letters that make one sound when together (for example: sh, th, qu, ng, nk, ch). When the children are confident decoding simple words we will teach and encourage them to ‘Fred in their head’ words to increase their fluency. 

During topic lessons, we will be focusing on writing single clause (simple) sentences. We will be writing wanted posters, speech bubbles, recipe cards, potions, alternative endings and labelling characters.

Maths

We will continue with our number of the week, moving on through the teen numbers. The children will work on number recognition and representing the number in different ways. This will deepen the children’s number sense and basic math skills. We will be focusing on calculating one more and one less, doubling and halving numbers to 20, adding and subtracting numbers to 10, and spatial awareness. 

Sibling Drop off and Pick ups.

Please contact the school office on 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk. with regards to sibling drop offs and pick ups.

Messages:

     

• Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times. 

• All uniform, spare uniform, and footwear should be labelled with your child’s name. 

• Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken. 

• We ask that your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day each week so it can be changed and your child read with.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact us via email the address is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk. 

        

Best wishes

The Reception Team

Nursery: Autumn Term 2

       

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are now into the second half of the Autumn Term of Nursery, thank you for all your ongoing support and communication! This blog aims to outline the learning that will be taking place in nursery, key information and key dates, providing any necessary links.

To start, several parents and carers have commented on how the blog Nursery: Primary and Infant School Applications was helpful. The Havering schools application deadline is the 15th Jan 2021, here is a link to the blog which provides an overview of the school application process with links to the necessary pages:

http://broadfordeyfs.blogspot.com/2020/10/nursery-primary-and-infant-school.html 

Communication and Language 

We will be encouraging the children to use their words to express themselves and to communicate their needs. We will also start using ‘Tales Toolkit’ to support children to use language in an imaginative way and to start sequencing events. 

What is ‘Tales Toolkit’?

Find out more about this literacy scheme that is used as a learning resources across Broadford Primary School: https://talestoolkit.com/ 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term we will be modelling ‘I statements’ using puppets and supporting children to begin forming ‘I statements’ of their own.

Want to use ‘I Statements’ at home and find out more? 

The NHS Centre for Parent and Child Support have released a series of short videos, from the content of the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities Being a Parent course, and this one covers ‘I Statements’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNwWnN1Sh9w&list=PLtqcqZxTf21YQ5J3mdNXIhFY23kGoFseb&index=4 

Physical Development 

This term there is a continued focus on gross motor activities to strengthen our core muscles. Activities include obstacle courses, jumping and hopping games. We also provide activities to support fine motor development, including playdough, mark making, painting, sand and water play, and threading.

Maths

Around the learning environment children will encounter endless opportunities to count, sort, order and categorise resources. They will see number lines and digits in nursery along with the opportunity to complete puzzles; supporting their logical reasoning and problem solving skills.

We will begin to hold math activities during key worker group time, including counting to ten, learning counting nursery rhymes such as Five Current Buns and Five Little Monkeys.

Join in the counting fun using mathematical nursery rhymes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn 

Literacy 

The books that we will be looking at this term relate to the topics we will be covering.

• Bonfire Night: Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin Jr.

• Diwali: Dipal’s Diwali, Twinkl.

• National Nursery Week

• Universal Tree Day: Stick Man, Julia D.

• Int. Day of Persons with Disabilities: The Patch, Justina Chen Hedley; and Happy to Be Me, Emma Dodd.

• Christmas: Grandpa Christmas, Michael Morpurgo; The Snowiest Christmas Ever by Jane Chapman; and Is it really Christmas? By Joyce Dunbar.

At Broadford Primary School, the Read Write Ink (RWI) scheme is used and as a prerequisite to learning phonemes, in nursery, we are continuing to embed one of the first strategies, the ‘Stop Signal.’ This is a school-wide approach to getting children to stop what they are doing, look and listen to their teacher. It starts in nursery and we have been using it throughout the day, in particular at tidy up time!

Read how to use the ‘RWI Stop’ signal here: https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/about-us/blog-news/article/ruths-blog-stop-silence/ 

Key Dates

We are currently considering how to perform the EYFS Nativity in response to the current climate and will update you with the decision on this shortly.

Christmas Holidays: 21st December - 1st January

INSET 3: Monday 22nd February 2021*

INSET 4: Friday 28th May 2021*

INSET 5: Friday 23rd July 2021*

*Inset days are open to staff for training but closed to all children.

Messages:

     

• Each week a group of parents/ carers will be contacted via email regarding their child being a Focus during learning time. If you would like to receive a Parent Guide on using Evidence Me please email eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk or let a member of the team know.

• Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times. 

• All uniform, water bottles and pack lunch boxes should be labelled with your child’s name. 

• Please can toys and comforters stay at home.

• Your child does not need to bring snacks to school. Fruit and water are available throughout the day for the children to access. The children only need to bring food to school if they are having a pack lunch. 

• Please let your class teacher know if your child has any new medical needs, allergies or dietary requirements if you have not done so already. 

• The school blog on the website and Facebook page are a great way to keep up to date with what is happening in the classrooms and any up and coming events. 

School Blog: http://www.broadford.havering.sch.uk/?page=rss

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/broadfordprimary/

We look forward to the year progressing and thank you for your support, do let us know if you have any questions.

        

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team

Broadford Primary School | The Learning Federation

eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk  | 01708 342 880

office@broadford.havering.sch.uk  | www.broadford.havering.sch.uk/

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Weekly Nursery Newsletter 23.03.15

Term: Spring 2 Date: 23.03.15

Our story of the week is ‘Pig in the Pond’. We are coming to the end of our Amazing Animal Topic. Our new topic is people who help us. This week we will be talking about the names of baby animals and the significance of Easter and New life.

Our songs of the week will be ‘Hot Cross Buns” and ‘This little piggy’.

We will continue with the phonics, we are spending the week revisiting the sounds we have already covered.

Personal, Social and Emotional
● Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
● Remembers where objects belong.
● Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language
● Uses a variety of questions
● Understands use of objects
● Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts

Literacy
● Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
● Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
● Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles.

Physical Development
● Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors
● Turns pages in a book, sometimes several at once.
● Runs safely on whole foot

Mathematics
● Recites numbers in order to 10.
● Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.
● Knows that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.

Understanding of the World
● Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.
● Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others.
● Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
 

Expressive Arts and Design
● Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things
● Explores colour and how colours can be changed.
● Creates sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 2Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning, this is in line with the rest of the school. 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, 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 however the table below details some ideas for the learning challenge.

Poem/Song to learn: Grey Squirrel
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
(bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail!
(shake it)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!
Put an nut between your toes
(touch your toes)
Wrinkle up your little nose!
(poke your nose)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

Piece of music: Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals

Person: Pet/animal of choice

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1.    Learn it off by heart 2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme 3.    Find out about squirrels	1. Listen to the piece of music 2. Create some movements to the music 3. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	1. Draw a portrait of the pet/animal of choice 2. Find out about the animal 3. Find and read a story with the chosen animal in

Messages
We will be making chocolate nests and Easter cards this week.
We would just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind words and support for Mrs Chisholm during her sad time.

The Nursery Team

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
one a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home

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