Leah completed her project at home. Well done Leah and family!
Friday 27 March 2015
Blake the Project Super Star!
Another Nursery child carrying out their project at home. A fantastic effort from Blake and his parents.
Thursday 26 March 2015
Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1
Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little fireman
Five little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 5 lets go.
Jump on the engine with a SHOUT,
As quick as a wink the fire is out.
Four little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 shhh lets go.
Jump on the engine with a Shout
As quick as a wink the fire is out.
(Repeat down to 0)
Person: People who help us
Painting: Janet Ahlberg (illustrator)
| Nursery Rhyme |
Painting
|
Person
| |
| Basic | Learn it off by heart | To find out 2 facts about the illustrator | Read a story with the person in |
| Advanced | Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme | To draw a picture in a similar style | Draw a portrait of the person |
| Deep | Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator | Find out facts about the person |
Reception Learning Challenge Summer 1
Poem/Song to learn: Teddy bear, Teddy bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn around!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the ground!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Jump up high!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the sky!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Bend down low!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch you toes!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night!
Painting: Illustrations Axel Scheffler (illustrator)
Person: Famous Disney character
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn around!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the ground!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Jump up high!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the sky!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Bend down low!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch you toes!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night!
Painting: Illustrations Axel Scheffler (illustrator)
Person: Famous Disney character
| Nursery Rhyme |
Painting
|
Person
| |
| Basic | Learn it off by heart | To find out 3 facts about the illustrator | Watch the superhero in action |
| Advanced | Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme | To draw a picture in a similar style | Draw a portrait of the superhero |
| Deep | Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator |
Our butterflies
Throughout our topic of 'Growing and Changing' we have been observing the lifecycle of a butterfly. We have observed our caterpillars growing and then building their chrysalides.
When we return from the Easter break we will have 12 beautiful butterflies to let go.
When we return from the Easter break we will have 12 beautiful butterflies to let go.
Look at our beanstalks
This half term the children have been growing their own bean plants. Each day they have taken the responsibility to ensure their bean plant grows. They watered it each day and made sure it was exposed to sunlight and air.
We have been making observations of the plants and discussing why some things occur, talking about the changes each week.
We have been making observations of the plants and discussing why some things occur, talking about the changes each week.
Tuesday 24 March 2015
95% attendance in Reception
These children have achieved 95% attendance for last term...congratualtions!
100% attendance winners in Apple
Congratulations to these children in Reception who have achieved 100% attendance for last term. Hopefully this term we will see even more children achieving it. Remember if you are in every single day on time and your class receives 100% attendance in one week you will recieve a cupcake party.
I have made my teacher happy
These children in EYFS and Key Stage One have made their teacher happy this week. They have all shown great resilience, reciprocity, resourcefulness and reflectiveness.
Monday 23 March 2015
2 Simple Termly Reports
We will be sending your child's termly report home via email again this week. Please look out for it in your inbox.
If you haven't already accepted the invitation from "2build a profile" please do so so your child's termly report can be sent to you. If you haven't received the invitation in your inbox, please check your junk mail as several parents informed us that it had gone into there. You need to open the email and click on accept.
Any problems regarding the termly reports please speak to your child's teacher.
If you haven't already accepted the invitation from "2build a profile" please do so so your child's termly report can be sent to you. If you haven't received the invitation in your inbox, please check your junk mail as several parents informed us that it had gone into there. You need to open the email and click on accept.
Any problems regarding the termly reports please speak to your child's teacher.
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.
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.
● 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
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
● 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
|
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
Weekly Reception Newsletter 23.03.15
Term: Spring 2 Date: 23.03.15
This week we will be basing our learning around ‘The Easter Story.’ We will be looking at the significance of Easter and new life. This is the last week of our ‘Growing and Changing’ topic. Our caterpillars have now turned into chrysalises and when we come back from the Easter break we will have 12 butterflies. The children will be bringing home their bean stalks this week along with their Easter nests and Easter cards.
Please remember that there are no after school clubs on Monday and Tuesday due to parents evening on both evenings.
Please remember that there are no after school clubs on Monday and Tuesday due to parents evening on both evenings.
Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):
Personal, Social and Emotional· Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
· Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
· Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression, e.g. when someone has taken their toy.
· Understands that own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realise they have upset them.
Communication and Language· Two-channelled attention - can listen and do for short span.
· Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
· Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
· Listening to the story of Easter and understanding what the chocolate egg, hot cross bun and rabbit mean
Physical Development· The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
· Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
· Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
· Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
· Experiments with different ways of moving.
· Observes the effects of activity on their bodies
· Travels with confidence and skill, around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
· Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
· Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
· Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
Literacy
· We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
· Please keep practising ‘Fred talking’ the words we send home and encouraging your child to use their ‘Fred Fingers’ to help them spell the words.
· 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. Remember there are individual awards for the amount of books read.
· Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
· Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts.
· Writing in their Easter cards
Mathematics
·Finds one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects.
·Count forwards and backwards within the number sequence 1-20.
·Ordering numbers across the 10 boundary
·Finding the total of two numbers.
·Using the vocabulary of addition
·Counting on the find a given amount
·Ordering numbers across the 10 boundary
·Finding the total of two numbers.
·Using the vocabulary of addition
·Counting on the find a given amount
Understanding of the World
· Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family
· Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines
· Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
· They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
· They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
· Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
· They know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions
· Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines.
· Making their Easter egg nests
Expressive Arts and Design
· Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
· They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
· Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
· Making their Easter cards
· Making their Easter egg nests
Learning ChallengeEach 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: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky
Person: Mr Bloom
· Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family
· Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines
· Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
· They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
· They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
· Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
· They know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions
· Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines.
· Making their Easter egg nests
Expressive Arts and Design
· Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
· They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
· Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
· Making their Easter cards
· Making their Easter egg nests
Learning ChallengeEach 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: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky
Person: Mr Bloom
Nursery Rhyme
|
Piece of music
|
Person
|
|
Basic
|
Learn it off by heart
Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme
|
Listen to the piece of music
|
Draw a portrait of the person.
Watch the person in action
|
Advanced
|
Find out about Jack and Jill
|
Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
|
Find out facts about the person
|
Deep
|
Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme
|
Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
|
Make/grow something that the person has made/grown
|
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.
· 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
· Remember that Friday 27th March is the last day of term and we return to school on Monday 13th April.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break.
Thank you for your continuous support.
Thank you for your continuous support.
Saturday 21 March 2015
Elizabeth the Super Star!
Elizabeth received her project certificate. She wrote about her black cat Audrey. Wow Elizabeth, you do have a 'Perfect Pencil Grip', look at that amazing fine motor control.
Charlie Won!
Charlie won the Easter Library Raffle. Each week the children attend the library with the lovely Miss Sparkes. They listen to stories and carry out literacy based activities. There is a prize draw each term for a book and Charlie's name got pulled from the hat. Congratulations Charlie!
New Finger Gym
The new finger gym entails the children using the tweezers to pick up the buttons and match them to the cards.
Wednesday 18 March 2015
Peters love of books.....
Peter brought in this special book from home along with the story props to help retell the story. Mrs King read it with him and he joined in with the repeated refrains. Well done Peter!
Monday 16 March 2015
Weekly Nursery Newsletter 16.3.15
Term: Spring 2
Date: 16.03.15
We had another fantastic week filled with amazing learning opportunities for the children. We had a visit from the ‘Wiggly Wildlife show’ on Monday; the photos all went on to the EYFS page.
We also took part in a sponsored walk around the school field to raise money for charity. Thank you to all of you who donated money and dressed your children in red. Also a big thank you to Maddison’s Nan in the afternoon for donating all of those lovely cakes.
Our book of the week is ‘Dinosaurs Big’ and we will be singing the songs ’Hey Diddle Diddle’ and ‘Little Bo Peep’’.
We will continue with the phonics, we are now on the grapheme ‘o’
Personal, Social and Emotional
- Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
- Remembers where objects belong.
- Expresses own preferences and interests.
Communication and Language
- Understands use of objects (e.g. “What do we use to cut things?'
- Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object. (30-50)
- Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors.
- Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
- Understands 'who', 'what', 'where' in simple questions(e.g. Who's that/can? What's that? Where is.?).
Literacy
- Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration
- Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
- Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
Physical Development
- Develops likes and dislikes for food.
- Willing to try new food.
- Shows control in holding and using jugs, hammers, books and mark making tools.
- Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set
- Uses some number names accurately in play.
- Recites numbers in order to 10.
Understanding of the World
- Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment.
- Operates mechanical toys, e.g. turns the knob on a wind-up toy or pulls back on a friction car.
- Has a sense of own immediate family and relations
- Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
- Explores colour and how colours can be changed.
- Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
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: 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
|
|
Nursery Rhyme
|
Piece of music
|
Person
|
|
Basic
|
Learn
it off by heart
|
Listen
to the piece of music
|
Draw
a portrait of the pet/animal of choice
|
|
Advanced
|
Draw
a picture to illustrate the rhyme
|
Create
some movements to the music
|
Find
and read a story with the chosen animal in
|
|
Deep
|
Find
out about squirrels
|
Draw
an illustration to represent their feelings
|
Find
out about the animal
|
Messages
- We will be toasting hot cross buns with the children this week.
The Nursery Team
Hey diddle diddle rhyme
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn’t know where to find them
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn’t know where to find them
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them
Sunday 15 March 2015
Red Nose Day
Thank you for all of your contributions for Red Nose Day. The nursery children took park in the sponsored walk around the field. The school field is enormous and their legs are only small, we feel they demonstrated great resilience by completing three laps. Well done nursery children!
Weekly Reception Newsletter 16.03.15
Term: Spring 2
Date: 16.03.15
This week we will be basing our learning around the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’
Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):
Personal, Social and Emotional
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: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky
Person: Mr Bloom
Messages
Date: 16.03.15
Reception Cycle & Scooter Day: Tuesday 17th March
Don’t forget your scooters and cycles for the Reception CAD event on Tuesday, bring one or both. The activities will be taking place on the playground. Please bring your scooters and bikes down to the Reception area and leave them outside the classrooms.
This week we will be basing our learning around the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’
Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):
Personal, Social and Emotional
- Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
- Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
- Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression, e.g. when someone has taken their toy.
- Understands that own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realise they have upset them.
- Two-channelled attention - can listen and do for short span.
- Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
- Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
- The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
- Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
- Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
- Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
- Experiments with different ways of moving.
- Observes the effects of activity on their bodies
- Travels with confidence and skill, around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
- Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
- Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
- Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
- We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
- Please keep practising ‘Fred talking’ the words we send home and encouraging your child to you’re their ‘Fred Fingers’ to help them spell the words.
- 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. Remember there are individual awards for the amount of books read.
- Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
- Continues a rhyming string
- Breaks the flow of speech into words
- In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.
- Records, using marks that they can interpret and explain.
- Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
- Orders two items by weight or capacity.
- Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
- Uses everyday language related to time.
- Beginning to use everyday language related to money
- Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family
- Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines
- Completes a simple program on a computer.
- Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software.
- They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
- Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
- Explores the different sounds of instruments. (media and materials)
- Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative
- Plays alongside other children who are engaged in the same theme.
- Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
- Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
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: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky
Person: Mr Bloom
Nursery Rhyme
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Piece of music
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Person
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Basic
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Learn it off by heart
Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme
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Listen to the piece of music
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Draw a portrait of the person.
Watch the person in action
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Advanced
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Find out about Jack and Jill
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Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
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Find out facts about the person
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Deep
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Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme
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Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
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Make/grow something that the person has made/grown
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- 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.
- 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
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