Reception Maths Party

Wow what a fantastic turn out from our reception parents and carers.  We appreciate your support and interest in your children's education and development.  There were a variety of mathematical activities taking place for you and your children to use and explore.  Furthermore information was available, including a hand out full of ideas of how you can help further your children's mathematical development at home. (please see you class teacher if you did not receive a copy).  

We were having so much fun and time ran away from  us at the end...a big thank you to Louie, Sophia and Sophia's mum for helping with the big tidy up at the end of the day!

Also every parent or carer who attended should have got a raffle ticket.  The winner from each class are as follows:

Apple: Thomas Gray

Aspen:  Miley Jeffery

Alder:  Tiffany Dash

Goodbye to our butterfly friends

The children have immensely enjoyed caring for the butterflies over the past few weeks.  As you are all aware our topic has been 'Growing and Changing' which is now coming to an end.  We have read endless related stories including The Hungry Caterpillar, the children have planted seeds and tended vegetables, furthemore they have read non-fiction text and explored life cycles, including a life cycle of a butterfly. We aquired the caterpillars and the children have cared for them and followed the process of their cycle.  They loved watching the hungry caterpillars munch and build their cocoons.  We were all sorry to see them go but understood that we had to set them free.  Danny said "We have to set them free!". Whilst Abdulmalik said "I hope they come back to visit us". 

                                       

Nursery Fun in the Sun

The children have had a lovely week enjoying the beautiful sunshine. They have been very keen to use the outdoor area and have been busy enjoying the sand pit, cooling themselves in the water tray and making sure all of our plants were watered. The afternoon Nursery had a special treat today as Janiyah brought in strawberries for our snack. Thank you Janiyah and Mum!  

Please make sure children are well sun creamed for tomorrow as it looks like it will be another lovely day! We have provided plenty of water, have ensured the children have shade available and can enjoy the sunshine safely. 

Reception Newsletter 22.05.17

Term: Summer 1                      Date: 22.05.17

Dear Parents,

Dates for your diary:

Maths Stay and Play: Thursday 25th May 2.15pm

Polling Day, school closed to pupils:  Thursday 8th June

INSET Day, school closed to pupils: Friday 23rd June

Please apply sunscreen to your children before school, they do spend a lot of time outside, thank you.

So… the butterflies have hatched, we will be releasing them this week, the children have had great fun tracking their progress.   

This week we will be reading the story of Oliver’s Vegetables and carrying out linked activities.

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

ELG: Children are confident to try new activities, and say why they like some activities more than others.

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.

To work as part of a group.

                       

Communication and Language:

ELG: They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.

Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

ELG: To answer how and why questions.

Physical Development:

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.

Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision.

Literacy:

ELG: They also write some irregular common words.

ELG: To write simple sentences which can be read by them and others.

Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers.

Mathematics:
ELG: They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
ELG: Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number.

ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

Expressive Art and Design:

Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.

ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.

Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

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.

Messages.

Keep up the great effort with encouraging the children to walk down the slope independently.  Please be advised any messages you have for us in the mornings can be given to the staff on the main door who will pass them on.

Also thank you to all of you who have sent in your childrens baby photos.  We look forward to receiving the rest of them, we can photocopy originals or you can email them to us directly.

Please remember the homework expectation in Reception is to read every day and learn the red words.  If you would like further homework please complete the Learning Challenge.

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.

 Person:  Mr Bloom

 Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator

  

Illustration by Eric Carle	Person: Mr Bloom
1.  To find out facts about the illustrator. 2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations. 3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.	Draw a portrait of the person. Find out facts about the person. Watch the person in action.

      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

Reception's Sharing Assembly!

Just a reminder tomorrow is Reception's sharing assembly. It will be starting at 9 am in the hall. See you there! 

Reception's Hungry Caterpillar Workshop

Yah"We're going on a minibeast hunt and we're not scared..."

Yesterday the children in Reception all took part in a Hungry Caterpillar workshop. They demonstrated great listening skills and were fully engaged in the story teller's tale. The workshop focused on a variety of minibeasts and linked lots of stories and rhymes together. 

The children worked together using their senses to find clues. Once they found the clues they stored them in a special story telling bag. At the end of the workshop the clues were used to tell a new story about minibeasts. It was a very interactive session and the children loved it. 

                                              

                                      

                                              

Reception Newsletter 15.05.17

Term: Summer 1                      Date: 15.05.17

Dear Parents,

Dates for your diary:

Reception’s Sharing Assembly: Wednesday 17th May 9am

Maths Stay and Play: Thursday 25th May 2.15pm

Polling Day, school closed to pupils:  Thursday 8th June

INSET Day, school closed to pupils: Friday 23rd June

Ella’s coat has gone missing, it is possible that one of the other children have accidentally taken it home.  It is khaki colour and age 5-6.  Please check all similar coats at home.  

Thank you for your help with this matter.

The children have been very excited to watch our caterpillars build their cocoons, we will shortly be transporting them to their baskets for a few weeks while they sleep.  The children also enjoyed planting various vegetables and flowers last week, I’m sure you will agree that they have done a super job with the Reception flower beds.   

This week we will be reading the story of The Bad Tempered Ladybird and carrying out linked activities.

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

ELG: Children are confident to try new activities, and say why they like some activities more than others.

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.

To work as part of a group.

                       

Communication and Language:

Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Able to follow a story without pictures.

ELG: To answer how and why questions.

Physical Development:

ELG: To move confidently in a range of ways.

Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision.

Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.

Literacy:

To write simple sentences which can be read by them and others.

Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers.

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

Mathematics:

ELG: Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number.

ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

To add single digit numbers.

Expressive Art and Design:

Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.

ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.

Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

Understanding the World:

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.

Children know about similarities and  differences in relation to living things.  

Messages.

Keep up the great effort with encouraging the children to walk down the slope independently.  Please be advised any messages you have for us in the mornings can be given to the staff on the main door who will pass them on.

Also thank you to all of you who have sent in your childrens baby photos.  We look forward to receiving the rest of them, we can photocopy originals or you can email them to us directly.

Please remember the homework expectation in Reception is to read every day and learn the red words.  If you would like further homework please complete the Learning Challenge.

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.

 Person:  Mr Bloom

 Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator

  

Illustration by Eric Carle	Person: Mr Bloom
1.  To find out facts about the illustrator. 2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations. 3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.	Draw a portrait of the person. Find out facts about the person. Watch the person in action.

      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

Brilliant Beanstalks!

After planting our own beanstalks a few weeks ago, some of them have flourished and out grown their pots. The children have been checking on their beanstalks daily, ensuring they were well cared for and watered. The children observed and discussed the changes they saw daily and all now know what a seed or bean needs to grow.

After deciding we needed to replant some of the beanstalks (that were now well past the giant's castles) we discussed where we could do this. Some of the children talked about their gardens and decided to take them home to plant and others decided our flower beds at school would be another good idea. There is still lots on the window sill which are starting to grow, the children are keeping a close eye on them.

Apple class were worried that the beanstalks might fall over without support so Miss Richardson and a team of avid gardeners produced a sturdy and impressive bean frame for them to grow up. We cannot wait to see how high they grow!

Iyinope "Our beans need lots of sunlight, not too much water and lots of love and care." 

Ella "My beanstalk is the tallest, I hope it keeps on growing. I'm going to plant it at school." 

A Celebration of Multicultural Dance

We were lucky enough to be involved in a Multi-Cultural Dance workshop today.  Each Reception class had a workshop and we were taught a 'Salsa' dance. The children were superstars and demonstrated excellent listening skills as they intently followed instructions involving several ideas.  The children were split into two groups and watched one another perform giving feedback to the opposite team.  They then took into account what their peers said and praised one another, showing reciprocity.  Furthermore they were interested in the dance from another culture and showed some of the dancing they did at home, noticing the similarities and differences.  Augustas said "I like to dance at home, I like street dance".

                                     

                                         

                                    

Reception Newsletter 08.05.17

                                                         

Term: Summer 1                      Date: 08.05.17

Dear Parents,

Dates for your diary:

Reception’s Sharing Assembly - Wednesday 17th May 9am

Maths Stay and Play: Thursday 25th May 2.15pm

Polling Day, school closed to pupils:  Thursday 8th June

INSET Day, school closed to pupils: Friday 23rd June

We had great fun learning about the life cycle of a butterfly last week, each class also got pet caterpillars.  This week we look forward to our Hungry Caterpillar story workshop.  

This week we will be reading the story of The Tiny Seed and carrying out linked activities.

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.

To work as part of a group.

Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

                       

Communication and Language:

Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Able to follow a story without pictures.

ELG: To answer how and why questions.

Physical Development:

ELG: To move confidently in a range of ways.

Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision.

Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.

Literacy:

KNows theat information can be retrieved from books and computers.

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

ELG: To read some common irregular words (red words).

Mathematics:

ELG:

ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

To add single digit numbers.

To solve problems including doubling.

Expressive Art and Design:

ELG: The children sing songs, make music, dance and experiment with ways of making them.

Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

ELG: To use media and materials in original ways.

Understanding the World:

They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

Children know about similarities and  differences in relation to living things.  

Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.

Messages.

Keep up the great effort with encouraging the children to walk down the slope independently.  Please be advised any messages you have for us in the mornings can be given to the staff on the main door who will pass them on.

Also thank you to all of you who have sent in your childrens baby photos.  We look forward to receiving the rest of them, we can photocopy originals or you can email them to us directly.

Please remember the homework expectation in Reception is to read every day and learn the red words.  If you would like further homework please complete the Learning Challenge.

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.

 Person:  Mr Bloom

 Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator

  

Illustration by Eric Carle	Person: Mr Bloom
1.  To find out facts about the illustrator. 2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations. 3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.	Draw a portrait of the person. Find out facts about the person. Watch the person in action.

      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