Reception Certificates 26.1.24

 

 A big whaledone to all of our certificate winners in Reception this week!

E for Excellence

Each week, a child in each class is awarded the E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work.

Aspen - Nusayr, for his fantastic behaviour. he always displays respect and kindness to his peers, setting an excellent example for kids friends to copy.

Apple- Ellie, for her hard work during phonics. You have been practicing making words on the blendy board and perservering to read the word. 

Alder-  Teodore, for your fanastic reading skills in your Read Write Inc lessons and weekly reading time. You are beginning to read with speed and fluency. 

Dojo Winner Of The Week

During the week, the children in reception can earn dojo points for good behaviour. They can earn these for good listening on the carpet, being kind and polite, sharing and tidying resources or helping a friend. Each week, the child with the most dojo points will be awarded with a certificate and have their photo displayed in the classroom.

Aspen- Zenaya

Apple-  Archie

Alder- Chalva

The 4 R Awards 

Resourcefulness 

These children have been curious about their learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources.

Reflectiveness 

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

Reciprocity 

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

Resilience

These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.

Reciprocity - Dawid

105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford Primary 

The children will be awarded with a Bronze, Silver or Gold award when they have read 15 of the 105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford. Please refer to the booklet in your child's reading folder for the list of books. 

Bronze- Read 5 books 

 Silver- Read 10 books 

Gold- Read all 15 books 

Please read with your child at home in order for them to have an opportunity to achieve a reading certificate. 

Bronze - Gracie

Silver- Henzo

Nursery learning 26.01.2024

 

Important information  

Please read;

On Wednesday the 31st of January we have a mobile farm coming to visit the Nursery for the morning. Children in afternoon sessions are very welcome to swap their afternoon session for a morning session on this day. Morning sessions run from 8.30am and children are collected by 11.30am. Please speak to a member of staff asap to swap your session.

• Nursery Stay & Play: Wednesday 07th February 2024. 8.45am & 1.30pm

• Parent meetings will take place February, letters to follow soon.

• Can the children please bring in clean recycled items for our junk modelling week on monday.

• Bed time story books are to be returned every Thursday  and sent home on Fridays. Please remove all artwork from folders, only books to be returned please.

Notice:

The nursery team would like to remind parents:

Please leave a bag with a spare set of clothing at nursery. This bag should be a labelled drawstring bag or a carier bag. 

As we do not have space for rucksacks, from January childrens rucksacks will be returned and belongings placed in a carrier bag. Rucksacks take up space on pegs making it challenging for the children to access their belongings. 

We would also like to remind parents toys from home are not allowed in the nursery. They can be dangerous, cause incidents over sharing and the children become very upset when they get lost or damaged. 

Thank you for your understanding

Book of the week:

This week the children have enjoyed the rhyming and alliteration of Hairy Macleary from Donaldsons Diary. We have loved playing with dogs and discussing pets we have at home.

Snack area focus:

This week the children have enjoyed making pizza bagels. Using different ingredients and talking about where food comes from, as well as buying foods from farms and supermarkets.

Play this week:

The children have had lots of fun playing and learning at nursery this week:

We have been playing our musical listening games, practicing out attention and listening skills.

The children have been loving our new small world area, where they have been practicing and discussing our farm topic ready for our big visit next week.

We have continued using our light table this week. The children really enjoy talking and discussing the different ways they can use colours and other objects on the light table. 

We have been loving our new mark making experience, practising our fine motor skills and pattern creations.

The children have been having fun pretending to be teachers, recreating the music games we have been playing with last week.

We have been working hard to practice our team building skills, turn taking and sharing with our peers. We use the terms; kind hands and hands to ourselves to support children through challenging moments. We love playing with our friends at nursery and creating fun games which everyone can join in.

Thank you for another amazing week.

The Nursery Team

Nursery Certificates- 26.1.24

            

Each week, 2 children in Nursery will receive an E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work. 

A massive congratulations to Aaira, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for her fantastic effort during her her key group sessions. Aaira has been working very hard on her listening skills and is now able to sit in the group and listen to her adult for short periods of time. 

A huge well done to Liza, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for being very kind and caring towards a new, younger friend who had just joined nursery.

She showed her comfort and included her in the games she was playing. 

Well done to Renae, Stefania, Ivaan and Chloe

who have completed their trackers by reading 'our five favourite books' in Nursery! Super job, keep up the reading!

Reception Learning 19/01/2024

 

Reception Learning 19.01.24

 

Reminders and key dates:

• Friday 2nd February: NSPCC Number Day 
• Tuesday 6th February: Stay and Learn session (9am)
• Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th February: Parents Evening 
• Friday 16th February: End of Spring 1 

Topic:

Jack and the Beanstalk

We read the book and sounded out and wrote some CVC words from the story into a large cloud. We played a Circle time game and passed a magic bean around the circle. When a child was holding the magic bean they spoke about what they would like to find at the top of a beanstalk.

We also watched this time-lapse video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77zPAtVTuI and went through the life cycle of a bean discussing the changes that happen throughout the cycle.

Take a look at all of the fun activities the children completed this week: 

Key vocabulary: 

Jack, beanstalk, climb, chop, castle, giant, green, harp, hen, egg, golden

Maths: 

This week we built on our understanding of capacity. We explored pouring and measuring water, sand and rice using various containers. We identified which container was full, half full and empty. We also looked at which container held the most and which held the least.

Key vocabulary: 

Full, half full, nearly full, empty, nearly empty

Bags

Please could we ask that you do not send your child in with any other bag unless it is a packed lunch or it is their reading day. We have limited space for coat and bag storage and many items are becoming lost / damaged due to the high volume of bags. Thank you!

Mrs Marie, Miss Speirs and Miss Onabiyi

Reception Certificates 19.01.24

 A big whaledone to all of our certificate winners in Reception this week!

E for Excellence

Each week, a child in each class is awarded the E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work.

Aspen - David 

For his participation in our topic lessons. David joined in and answered questions appropriately. Well done, David! 

Apple- Arya

For your hard work when writing during your choice time. You have been sounding out and writing tricky words all by yourself. Well done, Arya!

Alder- Keon 

For trying you rbest everyday during your Read Write Inc lessons and daily reading sessions. Keep up the great work, Keon! 

Star Writer 

Awarded to children who have worked hard in their writing this week. 

Apple- Riya 

Alder- Eliza

Dojo Winner Of The Week

During the week, the children in reception can earn dojo points for good behaviour. They can earn these for good listening on the carpet, being kind and polite, sharing and tidying resources or helping a friend. Each week, the child with the most dojo points will be awarded with a certificate and have their photo displayed in the classroom.

Aspen- Azlan

Apple-   Ayesha

Alder- Teodor 

The 4 R Awards 

Resourcefulness 

These children have been curious about their learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources.

Reflectiveness 

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

Reciprocity 

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

Resilience

These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.

Resourcefulness- Emir 

Reflectiveness- James 

Resilence- Archie 

105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford Primary 

The children will be awarded with a Bronze, Silver or Gold award when they have read 15 of the 105 Books to Read Before you Leave Broadford. Please refer to the booklet in your child's reading folder for the list of books. 

Bronze- Read 5 books 

 Silver- Read 10 books 

Gold- Read all 15 books 

Please read with your child at home in order for them to have an opportunity to achieve a reading certificate. 

 

 Silver- Ayesha, Aarav

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery learning - 19.01.2024

 

Important information  

Please read;

On Wednesday the 31st of January we have a mobile farm coming to visit the Nursery for the morning. Children in afternoon sessions are very welcome to swap their afternoon session for a morning session on this day. Morning sessions run from 8.30am and children are collected by 11.30am. Please speak to a member of staff asap to swap your session.

• We would like to say a big thank you  to Tina from Hairport in Hornchurch, who has kindly donated £50 to Broadford Nursery to be used on the children. The nursery team will be careuly planning on how best to use her gift for the children.

• Nursery Stay & Play: Wednesday 07th February 2024. 8.45am & 1.30pm

• Parent meetings will take place February, letters to follow soon.

Notice:

The nursery team would like to remind parents:

Please leave a bag with a spare set of clothing at nursery. This bag should be a labelled drawstring bag or a carier bag. 

As we do not have space for rucksacks, from January childrens rucksacks will be returned and belongings placed in a carrier bag. Rucksacks take up space on pegs making it challenging for the children to access their belongings. 

We would also like to remind parents toys from home are not allowed in the nursery. They can be dangerous, cause incidents over sharing and the children become very upset when they get lost or damaged. 

Thank you for your understanding

 

Book of the week:

This week the children have been listening to the book What the ladybird heard. The children really enjoyed naming the animals and discussing the story. 

As part of our farm theme, the children have been busy, practicing their pencil grips, making marks and creating animal pictures in the art area. 

The children have been exploring new vocabulary for langauge development within our small world area. This weeks farm focus has provided oppurtunities to lean new words and help extend our sentence lengths

Snack area focus:

This week the children have been experiementing with rice cakes, spreads and fruits to create faces as they try new things.

Focus play this week:

This week the children have been working on a listening and attention game where they respond to instructions. Each person chose an instrument and followed the traffic light system to shake fast, slow or stop playing according to the colour circle. By the end of the game the children had learned agrasped the idea of the game and had lots of fun taking turns and winning at the end. 

Managing our emotions:

At Broadford Primary school we use The Zones of Regulation to support our pupils learning and understanding of how to identify and manage our emotions. Feelings are complicated. They come in different sizes, intensities, and levels of energy that are unique within our brains and bodies. To make them easier to talk about, think about, and regulate, The Zones of Regulation organizes our feelings, states of alertness, and energy levels into four colored Zones – Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red. The simple, common language and visual structure of The Zones of Regulation helps make the complex skill of regulation more concrete for learners and those who support them. We learn to regulate our Zones to meet our goals and task demands, as well as support our overall well-being. More information can be found using this link: The Zones of Regulation

At Nursery the children use their check in cards to place in the zones to help identify how they feel and get support with managing their emotions.

Nursery Certificate- 19.01.24

                             

Each week, 2 children in Nursery will receive an E for Excellence certificate in recognition of their hard work. 

A massive congratulations to Dylan, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for his super roleplay this week. Dylan has a fantastic imagination and he showed this this week whilst playing in the home corner. He made cups of tea and delicious dinners for his teacher and his friends and is beginning to use words in English to share his ideas. 

A huge well done to Eva Y, who has been awarded the E for Excellence for her super work in circle time this week. Eva showed fantastic listening and was able to retell our focus story 'What the Ladybird Heard'. Well done Eva. 

Well done to Adelynn, Daman, Eliza and Dylan

who have completed their trackers by reading 'our five favourite books' in Nursery! Super job, keep up the reading!