Apple Class Sharing Assembly - Wednesday 9th May

We are happy to invite all parents and carers of children in Apple Class into school on Wednesday 9th May for Apple Classes first Sharing Assembly. Sharing Assembly will start at 9.00am in the hall. Apple Class are very excited to welcome you into school and to share what they have been learning.

Visiting the Vets!

As part of our topic growing and changing this half term the children have been enjoying their new vets role play area. At the end of the spring term the Reception children voted to decided whether they wanted a verts or a doctors for the next role play area. The vets won by a landslide.

The children have been busy working on reception booking animals into the vets, caring for the animals, performing operations and taking on the role of the animals themselves. Role play allows children a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with their peers, adding a narrative into their play. This allows children to further develop their communication and language skills within their play.

“You need to cut him open, he needs operating on.” Tele 

“This dog is 2 years old and has a cut leg.” Daniel 

“He’s hurt his leg, I’m bandaging it up.” Lottie 

Reception Newsletter 30.04.18

Term: Summer 1                     Date: 30.04.18

Dear Parents,

Our caterpillars arrived last week and the children have been observing them eating and growing.  The children will have their Hungry Caterpillar drama workshop today, make sure you look out for some photos on the blog.  Furthermore this week, we will be reading the text ‘Jaspers Beanstalk’.

Important Notices:

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who have already sent their child’s baby photo in and completed the lunch request for the trip to the park.

Remember the school will be closed to pupils on Thursday 3rd May as it is polling day and the school is used as a station.  We will see you back in school on Friday 4th May.

       Picnic at Central Park and visit to Mead School’s Farm - You will need to complete the lunch forms that were posted on FB and Blogger  last week. Any parents who are able to help on this trip please speak to your class teacher:

      Monday 14th May - Aspen Class

Tuesday 15th May - Apple Class

       Wednesday 16th May - Alder Class

      The learning objectives:

Personal, Social and Emotional

ELG: They are confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about their ideas, and will choose the resources they need for their chosen activities.

Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.

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

Communication and Language

ELG: They answer 'how' and 'why' questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events.   

Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking ideas, feelings and events.

Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.

Literacy

ELG: They also write some irregular common words.

ELG: They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.

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

        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.

Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands the need for variety in food.

       Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.

Mathematics

ELG: Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer.
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.

To select the correct numeral to represent 1-20.

Understanding The World

ELG: Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.

ELG: They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Recognises and describes special times or events for families and friends.

Expressive arts and design

Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects.

Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.

Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.

       

         Messages.

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. Please find some ideas in the table below.  Please ensure the completed challenge is handed in to your child’s teacher by Monday 21st May, so that the certificates can be prepared.

 

 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.

Dates for your Diary:

       

Sharing Assemblies - Apple  Wednesday 9th May

                                       Alder Wednesday 13th June

                                       Aspen Wednesday 4th July

Paradise Park -  Trip for children - Thursday 28th June

      The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:

       INSET Days (Non Pupil Days) Polling Day:

  25th May 3rd May

 29th June  

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

Nursery Newsletter 30.4.18

Dear Parent/Carer,

We had an exciting day on Friday re-telling the story of George and the Dragon. The children helped to create a very impressive cardboard dragon and following the story well. They enjoyed making jam and cucumber sandwiches to eat after our re-enactment of the story. This week we are continuing with our Animal focus. The children will have a visit from a rabbit and a dog and learn about how to look after pets.

If you have any pictures of your child's pets please email them to eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk. If you have any pets that it would be safe for the children to see in Nursery and handle please speak to a member of staff, we would love for the children to see a variety of pets.

There school will be closed for pupils on the following days this half term. This is for a polling day and inset days.
3rd May (This Thursday)
25th May 
29th June

Our school trip to Barleylands farm is on the 10th May. 

Mark Making/Creative
The children are going to have photos and  will be encouraged to look carefully and draw their own animals.

Mathematics
The children have game boards, counters and dice available to create their own mathematics games. They are learning to count accurately and take turns.

Physical
In their weekly PE lessons the children are learning different running and chasing games. They
have to listen carefully to instructions to achieve this.

Communication and Language
Encouraging children to use simple sentences correctly.
Encouraging children to hold a conversation and respond to comments.

Understanding of the World
This half term we have tadpoles they will be able to observe them closely as the grow and change. The children will also be able to visit the chicks coming shortly to Year 2.

In the home corner we will be giving the children opportunities to re-enact
experiences and talk about their home lives.

Personal and Social Development
Ensuring children are able to co-operate with routines and some boundaries.
Modelling the correct behaviours in play, ensuring children use resources well
and begin to share with other children.

Kind regards,
The Nursery Team

George and the Dragon - Nursery

Last week we celebrated St Georges Day in Nursery. The children learnt about the legend of St George by watching a re-enactment of the story. Mrs Light played the part of St George and the children helped us to create a cardboard dragon. After the performance the children listened to traditional English medieval music whilst feasting on the jam and cucumber sandwiches they had prepared.

"The dragon got hurt and went away." Sahir
"He saved the princess!" Callum

Broadford and the Beanstalk!

Fee Fi Fo Fum!

In reception we have been developing our understanding of the world and have been discussing the life cycle of plants. After reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ we got our own magic beans and planted them to observe our own beanstalks grow. 

We discussed how our beans would need the right amount of water, sunlight, air and warmth to grow into tall beanstalks. 

We carefully placed our magic beans into a bed of soil and used a pipette to water our beans to make sure that we didn’t over-water them! 

Fran: “It needs water.”

Rubie-Rae: “I’ve made sunshine to help them grow.”

We are so excited to see how tall our beanstalks will grow and if there are any giants at the top! 

Reception Walk to Central Park & Mead Farm

Local Trip

We are delighted to inform you about an upcoming Picnic in Central Park and a visit to the Farm at Mead. Please click on the link to complete the form:

Form

Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, there is lots of measuring to be done!

The Reception children have enjoyed reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. After lunch they returned to their classrooms to find a letter from the giant. The giant had left them a series of footprints and set the children a challenge to work out which belonged to him. The children first discussed and ordered the footprints from shortest to longest remembering to use the correct vocabulary. They then set about measuring the length of the footprints using cubes. The children recorded the length of each footprint and used these numbers to justify their answers.

"The red footprint is the shortest because it was only eight cubes long." Lucas 

"The orange one is definitely the giant's footprint. It has the largest number of cubes." Ellie-Jane 

Reception Newsletter 23.04.18

Term: Summer 1                     Date: 23.04.18

Dear Parents,

We have a very exciting week ahead, continuing with our ‘Growing and Changing’ topic, we hope that our caterpillars arrive this week.  We will be caring for them over the next few weeks and encouraging the children to observe their transformation into butterflies. This week we will reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and carrying out related activities.

Important Notices:

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who have already sent their child’s baby photo in,  we would appreciate the rest of them by the end of this week so we can prepare the activity. We can photocopy originals or email them to us directly.

Please apply sunscreen to your child before they come to school and ensure they have a sun hat.

       Picnic at Central Park and visit to Mead School’s Farm - You will need to complete the lunch forms that will be sent out this week.  Any parents who are able to help come on this trip please speak to your class teacher:

 Monday 14th May - Aspen Class

Tuesday 15ths May - Apple Class

       Wednesday 16th May - Alder Class

      The learning objectives:

Personal, Social and Emotional

Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.

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

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

Communication and Language

ELG: Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners' needs.

Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking ideas, feelings and events.

Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.

Literacy

ELG: They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.

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

Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers.

      Physical Development:

Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands the need for variety in food.

       Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.

Use a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

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.

To count reliably with numbers 1-20

To select the correct numeral to represent 1-20.

Understanding The World

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.

Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Recognises and describes special times or events for families and friends.

Expressive arts and design

Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects.

Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.

Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.

       

         Messages.

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. Please find some ideas in the table below.  Please ensure the completed challenge is handed in to your child’s teacher by Monday 21st May, so that the certificates can be prepared.

 

 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.

Dates for your Diary:

       Hungry Caterpillar workshop - Monday 30th April

       

Sharing Assemblies - Apple  Wednesday 9th May

                                       Alder Wednesday 13th June

                                       Aspen Wednesday 4th July

Paradise Park -  Trip for children - Thursday 28th June

      The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:

       INSET Days (Non Pupil Days) Polling Day:

  25th May 3rd May

 29th June  

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