Reception Awards 22.10.

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We have had another great week and there has been so much to celebrate in Reception! These children have worked extremely hard and have been rewarded for all their hard work and efforts.

E for Excellence

Alder: 

Dija, for her excellent skills in baking. Dija was able to follow instructions and she decorated her Elmer the Elephant cookie amazingly! 

Apple: 

Eva, for her fantastic efforts in Read Write Inc. It is so nice to see your confidence growing everyday! 

Aspen: 

Noah, for his hard work during our math lessons this week. Noah has been comparing groups of objects and identifying which has more or less. Amazing Efforts!!

 

 

 

 Star Writers 

Alder: 

Apple: Bentley, for his focus in Read Write Inc. You have worked hard to make your letter formation correct. Well done Bentley! 

Aspen: 

Danni-Ella, for independently finding your name card and for writing your name! Fantastic effort!

  

 

Learning Power Awards

These are the key skills that our children will need to learn effectively in class and to be successful later in life. 

Reciprocity

These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively, listened to others, displayed empathy and have imitated effective ideas and methods from others. 

This has been awarded to:

Reflectiveness 

These pupils have planned carefully, revised ideas, identified key features and can talk about their learning. 

This has been awarded to:

Kylie & Aisosa

Reading Awards

These children have read five books from our '105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford' and have received the Bronze Reading Award.   

Iustin

Reception Learning Week 8

  

 

Reception Learning - Week 8

Key Information

• Reminder - Monday 1st November 2021 is an INSET day, therefore the school will be closed to pupils.
• We no longer need Milk cartons - Thank you to everyone who brought them in.
• The weather is likely to be colder when we return from half term - Please ensure your child comes to school with a labelled coat, hat and gloves. 

Black History Month 

This week we have looked at the history of carnivals and where it originated from. We have been listening and dancing to carnival music this week and have loved  seeing all the amazing costumes and headdresses. The reception children have made their own amazing headdresses to wear for our carnival day!  Look how amazing they all looked!

Jace -  'My crown has green and yellow feathers on it'

Finley - 'I'm going to dance like this in the conga'

Harry- "I have a green feather on my crown"

Gabia- "Conga, conga, conga"

Maths 

This week we were focusing on comparing numbers. The children are learning that as we count, each number is one ore than the number before. We are also exploring that as we count backwards, the number is one less than the number before. The children have been using a range of resources to represent one more and one less, building on the confidence with numbers. 

Key Vocabulary: one more, one less, forwards, backwards, compare, same, difference

Zofia  'There are more dogs here'

Noah ' This one has more cars'

Hayden- "that has less, that has more"

Bernice- "6 candies"

Literacy

Our key text this week is Elmer. The children have loved reading a range of stories about Elmer and celebrating the idea that everyone is different and it is good to be different. As part of our literacy, we have been looking instruction and sequencing events. We decided to put this in to a real life context and follow instructions to make elephant shaped cookies!

One of the Early Years Characteristics of Effective Learning is being proud of how they accomplished something, not just the end result.  Our children thoroughly enjoyed the process of baking and were all very proud of what they had accomplished.

                                           

Key Vocabulary: mix, stir, pour, crack, together, first, then, next, after, finally

 

Phonics Learning  

This week in phonics, the children were assessed. After half term, the children will be placed into their new Read, Write, Inc groups.  

We have been really focusing on our oral blending skills. We use pure sounds ('m' not 'muh', 's' not 'suh' etc) so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily.

At school we use a puppet called Fred who is an expert on sounding out words!  We call this 'Fred Talk' E.g. m-o-p, c-a-t, m-a-n , sh-o-p. Fred can only say the sounds in a world and needs your child to help him read the word. Fred will say the sounds and children will work out the word. For Example, Fred will say the sounds  c-a-t, and the children will say the word cat. 

Please practice oral blending with your child at home when reading your ditty sheets and books.

Parent Video - How to say the sounds.

Parent Video - Oral Blending.

At this week's parents evening you would have been given a copy of the speed sound chart and a copy of the  writing rhymes for each sound. Please use this to support you child with their reading and writing. 

Nursery E for Excellence 22.10.21

 Nursery E for Excellence

 

We have had a fantastic week of learning and there has been so much to celebrate and be proud of in Nursery! 

These children worked extremely hard and have been rewarded for all of their determination and efforts.

E for Excellence

Elyssa: your sense of responsibility in nursery and independence. You have learned the routines of the snack area and know to clean up after yourself.

Inaya: Your kindness towards others! You have been so helpful to your peers and show such a responsible attitude to nursery. 

Nursery: 18th-21st October 2021

 Learning Theme: All about me

 

“Splash, splash! wellies, go, go, splash”

Said Olivia jumping in the splash area

 

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Our focus learning

• Our social skills

• Key Information

• Two year old focus

• Home learning challenge

 

Half term home learning challenge

Our half term home learning challenge is to collect conkers! Please collect as many conkers as you can find and bring them into nursery after half term on tuesday 02nd November 2021. Pictures can be uploaded to the Evidence me app.

Good luck!

 

 

Reminder:

Can Parents please bring in Wellington boots and a drawstring bag with spare clothes ASAP.

Please LABEL  all your children's belongings, including both shoes. 

Please do not bring bags daily into nursery due to lack of space on pegs. Spare clothes are stored in the changing rooms.

Thank you

Two year old focus

This week we have been learning about our emotions; happy, sad and angry. We have been developing our positive sense of self and how to wait and take turns. We have been learning new words to help extend our play.

“Ngenge, ready your chicken” Said Akela to his teacher after asking for help with his apron.

Our focus nursery rhyme after half term will be:

 

Our focus learning

Maths: the children have been focussing on shapes this week through thor play. We have played fun shape games with dice and our peers, taking turns. We have also been learning to identify 2D shapes based on sight and name. We have also been practicing our number recognition from 0 to 10 during circle time.

“I found square” said Damien	“Look its a rhombus” Said Emma
Zhyan said  “Look I found a hexagon, 2 hexagons and one circle” As he threaded shapes onto his string.	“We found all the shapes” Said Ava-rose.

Physical: The children have been practicing gross motor movements outdoors balancing on boards and crawling through tunnels. Indoors we have been developing our hand muscles by spreading jam on toast, marking making and applying pressure to use the hole punchers.

 

Black history Month 

The children enjoyed taking part in our black history carnival parade. We congo style danced around the nursery to Trinidadian soca, played on steel pans. The children learnt about the steel pan and used sticks and similar shaped bowls to recreate the steel pan sounds. We watched a video of children wearing costumes from Notting Hill carnival. 

We all had a fun time 

 

Morning Carnival parade	Afternoon Carnival Parade
“Wow, they are beautiful. I want to wear that one”  Said Teddy-James	All ready for Carnival

 

Our social skills 

We have been working together with our peers to construct during play; taking turns, listening to others ideas whilst having so much fun.

  

Nursery rhyme of the week

Our nursery rhyme of the week is: One, two buckle my shoe

A big thank you!

We would like to say a big thank you to Lujah’s dad, Jimmie, for taking time to visit and help us plant some lovely flowers in our nursery garden. The children had lots of fun helping.

Key Information

Important dates: 25th October: Havering Half Term (Nursery closed) 2nd November: Nursery reopens Christmas Holidays (Nursery closed):  20th Dec (Back 4th Jan 22)   INSET Days; Nursery closed to children: 1st November 2021 4th January 2022 21st February 2022 6th May 2022

 

If you have any questions please contact nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk or for more urgent messages speak to a member of staff or contact the school office: 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk

The Nursery Team