Reception Weekly Newsletter 12.1.15

Term: Spring 1

Date: 12.01.15

This term our topic is ‘Superheroes’. This week we have a very exciting visit from a circus company who are coming in to conduct workshops with the children. You are all invited to watch the children perform their skills that they have learnt during the course of the day on Wednesday 14th January at 3.00-3.15. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Our book of the week this week is ‘Superhero School’. 

Your child will be taking part in the following activities. (Activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests):

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions. 
• Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
• Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings.
• Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
• Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met
• Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.
• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise

Communication and Language

• Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events
• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Able to follow a story without pictures or props.
• Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
• Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
• Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.

Physical Development

• The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
• Experiments with different ways of moving.
• Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
• Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
• Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
• Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
• Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
• Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
• Please ensure your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day. 

Mathematics

• Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
• Estimates how many objects they can see and checks by counting them.
• Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.
• Order numbers to 10 and then to 20

Understanding of the World

• Completes a simple computer programme.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.
• Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
• Creates simple representations of events, people and objects.
• Chooses particular colours to use for a purpose.

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, 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.

Poem/Song to learn: Grand Old Duke of York

 

The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men

He marched them up to the top of the hill

And he marched them down again.

When they were up, they were up

And when they were down, they were down

And when they were only halfway up

They were neither up nor down.

Painting: Illustrations by Eric Carle

Person: A superhero

Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
1.     Learn it off by heart. 2.     Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3.     Find out about the Duke of York.	1. To find out 3 facts about the illustrator. 2. Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator. 3. To draw a picture in a similar style.	1. Draw a portrait of the superhero. 2. Find out information about the superhero. 3.

 Messages

• The children may bring in something related to our topic for Show and Tell on Friday.
• 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.
• If you have any spare material, bed sheets or cardboard boxes lying around at home then please send them into us.
• 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.
• If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your constant support.