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