Reception Awards 27.05.22

                                           

Reception Awards

We have had a great week in Reception.  Another week of amazing learning from our children, it is lovely seeing them making lots of progress.

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

E for Excellence

Apple: 

Vikhyat, for being super kind to those around you and always allowing others to join your play. You are a fantastic role model. Well done!

Aspen: 

Tiger Lily, all your fabulous creations this week in celebration of the Queens jubilee! Always love seeing what you come up with. Well done!

Alder:

Ikveera, well done for settling so well into your first few days at a new school! You displayed lots of bravery and made lots of new and amazing friends!

  Star Writers 

Apple: 

Harry, for your fantastic letter to the Queen. You worked hard to sound out your words. Well done SUPERSTAR!

Aspen:

Alexandra, for your fantastic writing to the Queen. You worked hard to form your sentences. Well done!

Alder: 

Spencer, for your excellent letter to the Queen. You took your time and wrote a wonderful sentence. Well done!

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:

Lola

Chirag

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

This has been awarded to:

Mateo

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

This has been awarded to:

Zofia

Ikveera

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

Reading Awards

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

Well done! 

Alfie 

 

Reception Stay & Play

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are excited to invite you to our OPAL stay and play session. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to play with your child/children in the school grounds. We will be making dens, dressing up, making up imaginative stories, playing with water and much more.

Reception OPAL Stay and Learn

Date: Tuesday 7th June 2022

Time: 2:10 – 3:00pm

Play time is a hidden part of the school day for you, so our Summer term 'Stay and Learn' sessions will allow you to see how play at break and lunchtime has developed during Broadford’s OPAL journey, how the children are playing and, also, gives context to the requests and pleas we send out to the school community e.g., welly requests, loose parts donations, fundraising efforts. 

If possible, please bring a loose part donation to help with den making, for instance a tyre, clean wood, tarp, plastic pipe, crate. We also are always looking for ride-on toys, scooters, old suitcases and anything form the loose parts list send out previously.

Please indicate via this form if you are able to attend. We are really excited about this project and hope that you will support us in our efforts to improve playtime for all children.

Please dress for all weathers and for play!

We look forward to welcoming you all

The Reception Team

Reading in Reception.

 

Reading in Reception

As we approach the last half of the summer term, we wanted to remind parents of the Broadford reading  scheme;  105 Books to read before you leave Broadford Primary.  

At Broadford, we aim to encourage a love of reading. By providing our pupils with quality texts and introducing them to strong characters, we can broaden their perspectives on the world around them as they are taken to far off lands from the comfort of their own chair!

As the children progress through the reading scheme they will have the opportunity to collect three certificates - bronze, silver and gold for every five books they read.

Below are the 15 books they children should read in the repletion year.

Children are issued with a reading tracker as pictured below

We have lots of children who are already working their way through the fifteen books and some children who have completed it already. We have copies of all the books within the reception year group, so please let us know which books your child needs to read in order to complete their tracker and we will send a copy home.

If you have misplaced your child's reading tracker, please speak their class teacher who will happily provide you with another.

Daily Reading

Learning to read can be hard work for many children, so it’s important to keep enjoying books together and where possible on a daily basis. In reception, we send children home with a 'bedtime' reading book each week, this allows your child to benefit from listening to books and stories that they can’t read themselves yet.  Children are also sent home with a RWI home reading book that matches exactly the phonics the child is learning about in their RWI lessons. This helps the children to practice and consolidate the sounds and words they have already learnt and the ones any new ones they have just been taught.

Please ensure you read daily with your child at home and record this in their individual reading record and return their reading folder on their reading day. 

Storytimes matters

Reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word. When the rhythm and melody of language become a part of a child's life, learning to read will be as natural as learning to walk and talk.

Even after children learn to read by themselves, it's still important for you to read aloud together. By reading stories that are on their interest level, but beyond their reading level, you can stretch young readers' understanding and motivate them to improve their skills.

EYFS: Grow and Learn - your guide to school readiness from 0-5 years

Havering Council have put together some useful information to help parents, carers and families from birth to five years old, to support their children’s communication development and learn how to help their children gain the best start to life through playful learning at home, good health and nutrition and where you can get help if you need it.

There is a range of ideas, top tips and games to support children’s language, physical and emotional development. Its aim is to ensure children start school ready to explore, learn and make friends.

Click here to access this information

Reception Jubilee Celebrations

Reception Jubilee Celebrations

This week, across the school each year group will focus on a decade of the Queen's reign and explore some areas of life in that given decade.  Reception will be focusing on the 2010s.   To celebrate this decade, the children have been learning the lyrics and the dances moves and will perform the song later in the week. 

 Justin Timberlake - Can't stop the feeling

  

                                                         

There will be a red, white and blue dress up day on Thursday 26th May along with a special Jubilee lunch menu. 

During the afternoon, the reception children will be having their own afternoon tea .Children will have come home this week with an invitation to our Reception Jubilee Afternoon Tea. The tea will take place in the reception playground (weather permitting). It will be in the style of a traditional street party, with a long table with the children sat around, music playing. The children will have hats and flags that they have made to wave around.   They will be baking their own scones for the special tea and the children have invited along Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Stanley to join them. 

Across the week children will be making paper chains and bunting decorations for their afternoon tea. Each child will make a jubilee crown, flag  and pin wheel. 

 

Our literacy focus we will be reading The Queen's handbag. This book tells the story of how the Queen goes on a wild-swan chase around the British Isles, in pursuit of her missing handbag. We will have opportunities to discuss and learn about lots of different British landmarks.

The children will be writing letters to the Queens to congratulate her on her Jubilee. Reception will be making a time capsule and capturing all the fun and memories for our Jubilee celebrations. We will bury this in the ground of the school in the hope it is found by future Broadford pupils. 

On Friday 27th May, all pupils are invited to a Party in the Playground.  There will be music, food and games.  Fingers crossed the rain holds off!

 We will share all the Jubilee fun in a blog later this week.... Make sure to look out for it.

 

Nursery: w/b 16th May 2022 - Our learning this week

 Learning Theme: People Who Help Us (Doctor Jess Visits)

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Book of the week

• Nursery Rhyme of the week

• Learning Through Play

• 2 year old Focus

• Ten Town Input

• Phonic Input

• Preparing for Reception

• Key Information

Book of the week

The children have enjoyed a selection of stories linked to People who Help Us including this fiction book:

Doctor by People Who Help Us

Nursery rhyme of the week

This week the children learnt Doctor Foster, here are the words:

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain,

He stepped in a puddle,

Right up to his middle,

And never went there again.

Learning Through Play

This week’s learning has involved:

• Practicing ‘Zero Pond’

• Speaking to and playing with the Doctor Jess

• Creating police cars using different materials

• Continued name writing (with a capital letter for our initial letter and then lower case)

• Learning key vocabulary for doctor’s equipment including: stethoscope, thermometer, ophthalmoscope and otoscop.

• Exploring how to use doctor’s equipment through play.

• See all the equipment in Doctor Jess’s spotty bag!

• Mark making for doctor notes

Ten Town Input

As part of their number understanding learning, the children were introduced to ‘Pond Zero’ this week. They learnt:

• How to form the digit

• How to show the number on their fingers

• The Pond Zero song

You may also like to watch Numberblocks numbers 1, 2 and 3.

Phonic Input

The focus for this week was continuing to learn rhyming sounds, the children:

• Learned the silly soup rhyme

• Identified rhyming words

I’m making lots of silly soup

I’m making soup that’s silly

I’m going to cook it in the fridge

To make it nice and chilly

In goes... a rat... a cat... a mat…a dog?

Here are two videos that you can watch at home to play the game:

Silly soup: ig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-rkhTkq3mU 

Silly soup: ocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktF7DcnlGzQ 

2 year old focus

School Library Visit

The children enjoyed their visit to the school library where they met our friendly ‘Theo’, the dog. They listened to some stories with Theo read by Mrs McFarlane.

Nursery Rhyme: Miss Polly had a Dolly

Maths Learning: 

• Ten Town (0-5)

• 2D Shapes: circle, square and triangle

Story of the week

A selection of books around the topic People Who Help Us including ‘Teacher’ and ‘Doctor’

Preparing for Reception

Each week we will include a tip to help prepare your child for reception; although it seems a long way off the summer term will shortly pass and September will be here before we know it!

Tip of the week:

This week the focus is on showing numbers 0-5 on our fingers. Not only is this an objective in nursery, but it will be a lifelong skill that supports your child with addition, subtraction, multiplying and division in later learning. 

Focus child Meetings

Each week children will be chosen to be observed by their keyworker. Emails will be sent home to inform parents of the upcoming parent meeting taking place the following week, either in person or via telephone. Parents will have an opportunity to complete a form asking questions and sharing concerns they may have for the key worker to answer during the parent meeting. This form will be sent via email. Please check your emails weekly for school communications and evidence me parents share from your children's teachers. Parents are welcome to upload pictures and videos of their children at home. 

Key Information

• Please LABEL  all your children's belongings, including both shoes and wellington boots. 

• When the weather is forecast to be hot and sunny please provide a named hat for your child and dress them in summer appropriate clothing.

• Please ensure your child has high factor water suncream on before attending school.

Jubilee Celebrations

During the week beginning 23rd May, pupils will be taking part in lots of exciting activities to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee!  

Each year group will focus on a decade of the Queen's reign and explore some areas of life in that given decade.  Please see below for a schedule for the week (subject to change).  

 

There will be a red, white and blue dress up day on Thursday 26th May along with a special Jubilee menu.  On Friday 27th May, all pupils are invited to a Party in the Playground.  There will be music, food and games.  Fingers crossed the rain holds off!

 

Year Group	Decade	Planned Activities
Nursery	2020s	Crown, flag, bunting and jewellery making. Read The Queen’s Hat and What the Ladybird Heard Learn ‘Sing a song of sixpence’ and ‘London Bridge’. Perform ‘Baby Shark’

Reading trackers will be coming round this week. They will be started off in class next week and we encourage the children to complete them at home over the half term break. 

 

Pupils should complete their trackers and return to their teacher by Tuesday 7th June. Children will receive a certificate for participating and be entered into a prize draw to win royal-themed books.

 

The class who enter the most completed trackers will receive a special treat!

 

 

Reminder: Strictly no nuts or foods with nuts in packed lunches.

Important dates: INSET Days & holiday dates- Nursery closed to children: W.B 23.05.22: Jubilee Celebrations Half- term holidays - 30th to 3rd June 2022 INSET day- 6th June 2022- School closed NSPCC child day - wear green - 10th June Pirate Dress Up Day- 22nd June Last day of term - 21st July 2022 Summer Holidays- 22nd July- 31st August 2022 School Reopens- 1st September 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

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team