Dear Parents and Carers, Term: Summer
Welcome back! We hope you all enjoyed the Easter break and are looking forward to the Summer term. This term our topic is ‘Growth and Life Cycles’. In Summer 2 our topic will be Journeys. During these topics your child will continue to develop all of the independent skills we have been working towards since September; we are now aiming for those Early Learning Goals.
Trips and Experiences
We would like to give you advance notice that there will be a trip to ‘Call of the Wild Zoo’ in July and this will cost £15. We will send out more information very soon. We will be visiting the pond and growing butterflies this half term. In summer 2 we will build a fort and take part in transitional activities to prepare us for year 1.
Dojo
Thank you for your engagement with Class Dojo. We are very pleased to see what the children have been getting up to outside of school! We hope you are enjoying the weekly photos and updates. Please feel free to use this platform to contact your class teacher with any questions you may have during school hours 8.30am - 4pm.
Reading
Thank you for all of your support with the children’s reading at home so far. Just to remind you that the expectation is to read and sign the reading record at least 5 times a week. This is part of the home / school agreement that you signed at the beginning of the year. It is important that your child reads every day to help prompt not only the development of reading but also the love of reading.
Please continue to ensure that your child brings their reading folder to school on their reading day. If you are unsure of your child’s reading day please ask your child’s class teacher.
Additionally, if you have misplaced your child’s current word sheet please let your child’s class teacher know. Please also continue to record any reading you do at home in your child’s reading record. Thank you.
Uniform
In sending your child to Broadford Primary School, you agree to follow the uniform policy and work within the spirit it was written. The policy has been set out to be informative and clear; should you require clarification on any area of the school’s uniform, please contact the School Office or your child’s class teacher. The uniform options are:
Navy blue sweatshirt (preferably with the Broadford logo)
Navy blue cardigan (preferably with the Broadford logo)
Navy blue fleece (preferably with the Broadford logo)
Collared white t-shirt (preferably with the Broadford logo)
Grey trousers tailored, knee length grey shorts (worn with grey or white socks)
Grey regulation knee-length skirt (worn with grey or white socks)
Grey tights
Blue and white gingham dress (full length pattern)
Black shoes or trainers (no heels or coloured markings)
All school uniform is available through Khalsa School Wear. Children are permitted to wear stud earrings. Children must also not attend school wearing make-up or nail varnish/fake nails. Jogging bottoms and leggings are not part of our uniform policy.
Hair accessories
We kindly ask that children do not come to school with large hair bows and accessories. Hair accessories should be small and limited to simple ribbons, bands or clips and restricted to basic colours of blue and white.
Missing clothing
Please ensure ALL items of clothing that are brought into school are labelled. It is important that children are responsible for their own items but in order to help them locate these, names must be included. We have asked all children to put their jumpers and cardigans in their tray. Thank you for your support with this.
Phonics
The children have once again been assessed and placed into phonics groups based on their current stage of learning in phonics. They will continue to learn ‘special friends’. This term is used to refer to set 2 sounds - ay, ee, igh, ow, oo, oo, ar, or, ir, air, ou, oy. They will continue to learn to blend sounds into words moving from oral blending to reading short sentences.
Literacy
Stories are a key part of our curriculum and high quality texts will be used throughout the day to foster the children’s love of reading. This half term we will be focusing on Growth and Life Cycles. We begin with Jasper’s Beanstalk, Oliver’s Vegetables, Tango Makes Three, A Tadpole’s Promise and The Hungry Caterpillar. Please check Dojo and our blogs to see what the children get up to.
Maths
The children have spent the Spring term building their understanding of numbers within 5 and learning lots of new maths vocabulary. In Summer, we now move on to the composition of numbers to 5, mass and capacity, building on our knowledge of numbers to 10 and length, height and time. Please see some further information around these topics below:
Communication and Language
We will be finding information about plants from non-fiction texts and the internet. We will use the library to research our favourite vegetables. We will continue to practise our high frequency words and letter formation. We will recount our own experiences of plants, grow cress, design posters, write fact files and label life cycles.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Children will be encouraged to think about the importance of caring for plants and looking after them properly. We will talk about forests, parks, ponds and trees. We will go out to the large playground to have a look around and prepare us for year 1, as part of our transition for next year.
Physical Development
We will continue with our indoor P.E lessons, introducing greater independence to each child by helping them to select and move equipment.
Key Dates
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team please drop us a message on Dojo or email at reception@broadford.havering.sch.uk
Thank you for your continued support and working hard with your children at home.
Mrs Marie, Miss Mullan, Miss Hurell and Mrs Ellender
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