Reception Spring 2 Newsletter March 2021

 

Spring 2

Dear Parents and Carers, 

It’s the final countdown…Keep up the excellent work and effort this week. A huge well done to all of you for working so hard remotely! We are so excited to see you all and welcome you back to school! Please read the school blog about back to school arrangements click here for more information. Please note changes to timings. 

Preparing to return to school blog.

This half term we will be starting our ‘Superheroes - fact or fiction?’ topic. 

We started our topic last week with Superkid and Healthy Eating. We will be reading the stories Supertato, Superworm, Juniper Jupiter, Izzy Gizmo and learning more about real life superheroes too.

Communication and Language 

Providing the children with the opportunity to retell the stories in their own words, act them out in their play as well as making up their own stories based on superheroes. The children will be talking about what they would do if they were a superhero. What would their special power be and how would they use it? These all help children develop their communication and language skills.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development 

This term we will be focusing on settling in,  and  well-being. Supporting the children to learn to play with others and make friends, understand and talk about feelings, develop independence and ultimately feel happy, good and confident about themselves.

Physical Development

This term we will be focusing on our letter and number formation, ensuring the children have the right patterns, formation and direction. It is vital we encourage these from the beginning, so the children do not form bad habits. We ask if your child is writing at home and forms a letter or number backwards that you work with them to write it the correct way.

 We will also be continuing with fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles. Of course we will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas and during PE lessons.

Literacy

We will continue with our daily RWI lessons, focusing on our ‘special friends’, two letters that make one sound when together (for example: sh, th, qu, ng, nk, ch). When the children are confident decoding simple words we will teach and encourage them to ‘Fred in their head’ words to increase their fluency. 

During topic lessons, we will be focusing on writing single clause (simple) sentences. We will be writing wanted posters, speech bubbles, recipe cards, potions, alternative endings and labelling characters.

Maths

We will continue with our number of the week, moving on through the teen numbers. The children will work on number recognition and representing the number in different ways. This will deepen the children’s number sense and basic math skills. We will be focusing on calculating one more and one less, doubling and halving numbers to 20, adding and subtracting numbers to 10, and spatial awareness. 

Sibling Drop off and Pick ups.

Please contact the school office on 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk. with regards to sibling drop offs and pick ups.

Messages:

     

• Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times. 

• All uniform, spare uniform, and footwear should be labelled with your child’s name. 

• Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken. 

• We ask that your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day each week so it can be changed and your child read with.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact us via email the address is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk. 

        

Best wishes

The Reception Team