Reception Weekly Newsletter

Term: Autumn 1 Week beginning: 30.09.13

Our children have coped brilliantly with their first full week. They have thoroughly enjoyed learning about ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’, especially getting to make porridge. We have decided to continue with traditional stories. This week we will be basing our learning around the book, ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’.
Your child will be taking part in the following activities and routines:

Personal, Social and Emotional
Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
Responding to simple instructions and following rules.
Learning to put away activities once they have finished playing with them.

Communication and Language
The police station has proved very popular so we will be doing some more detective work encouraging the children to generate the questions and solve clues as to who broke the bridge? Whose footprints do they belong to? How do you know? How did the bridge break?

Physical Development:
Making trolls out of play dough developing fine manipulative skills.
Hall session: The children will continue to go out in small groups to work with our Sports Coach,
Mr Clark. Please bring in PE kits as soon as possible. 

Literacy:
We will be continuing our daily phonics sessions, learning set 1 letters – p,g,o,c`.
We will be sending home a daily practise sheet for you to complete with your child.
Listening to the story, ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’ and recalling events.
Listening to alternate stories to stimulate thinking skills. Ask what would have happened if… the big Billy Goat Gruff had crossed the bridge first? the troll came back one day? the troll was friendly? the little goat found a boat? If a horse crossed the bridge? Etc… 

Mathematics:
Continuing Ten Town – our number formation scheme. Learning to form numbers 4 and 5 accurately.
Developing an understanding of positional language, such as; across, beside, next to, below, above, under, on top, over, in, on etc…
Reinforcing size activities developing vocabulary. Is the goat tiny or minute, gigantic or enormous, mediocre or average etc… 

Understanding of the World:
Creating small world scenes of ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’.
Using the interactive story maker to tell their own stories. 

Expressive Arts and Design:
Home Corner – The 3 bears, using different sized cups, spoons, bowls etc…
Role play – A Police Station, to solve the crime –Who broke the bridge?

Messages:

The children may bring in something related to our stories for Show and Tell on Friday.
Each child now has a home/school book. This is a book to write their wow moments in and any important messages. If you make a comment in the book, please place it in the tray provided so that we respond to your comment straight away.
Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.
We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences. 

You may not be aware that Free School Meals eligible children attract Pupil Premium funding, which is going to be £1300 per child. This additional money is used to improve achievement for that group but it also impacts on all of our children. For instance, a chunk of it pays for the free after school clubs that everyone benefits from. Our Governing Body have discussed how we can use this money to directly help eligible families. Support we can offer includes: free school trips, support with uniform and help with residential trips. If you think you may be eligible, please apply now. You don’t actually have to eat the school dinners… you just have to sign up! The more children who sign up, the more money we get, the more we can help our children. If you feel you are entitled to free schools meals, please pick up a form from the office. If you need help in completing the form, just ask!

Stay and play session:
Come and see us in action! On Thursday 17th October we are inviting parents to come and watch us teach Read, Write, Inc. See how we teach sounds and get some tips for activities which you can do with your children to support our scheme.
This session will run from 9.05 – 11.00.  More details to follow next week.

Thank you for your continued support.