Mead Primary
School Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Newsletter
Date 26.09.2016
So after two weeks of getting to know our Reception children it is now time for them to start attending full time. The doors will open at 8.30 each day and close at 8.50 to ensure a nice calm entry into school giving us the opportunity to say Good Morning to each child and they can say Good Morning back to staff. Doors will then open at 3.00 for collection. We would appreciate your promptness as staff often have meetings to go to or clubs to run. Please check the lunch menu each day so the children make sure they have food that they like. If the daily choices are not suitable for your child please send in a packed lunch instead.
Now that the children are in full time each child
will have one long read with class staff per week. This gives us the
opportunity to spend quality time with each child listening to them and
practising their words. Key vocabulary will be practised regularly at school
and the children will have a story read to them at the end of every day and a
focus book read to them straight after lunch. It was so lovely to see so many
of you writing comments in the home/school reading record and developing the
importance of spending a little bit of time each day to develop the love of
reading.
We will
also be starting on our phonics programme this week by looking at the letters
m,a,s,d thinking about the sounds these letters make and how to form these
letters. We will also be introducing our maths programme Ten Town and exploring
the numbers 0.1.2. and 3. The children may come home talking about Zero pond,
King One, Tommy Two and Thelma Three. This is just part of the day and all
children will still have plenty of opportunity for exploration and
investigation of their environment both inside and outside and time to develop
the important personal and social aspects of meeting friends and communicating.
The covers came off of the sand pit, the sun came
out and the children went in to the sand pit when the builders announced that
it was ready. It was a truly wonderful sight to see such smiling faces and
excited conversations about building sand castles, making sand angels and
decisions about whether to go down the slide or through the tunnel.
Please ensure your child has their P.E kit in
school by Tuesday as the sports coach will teach the children for their regular
session every Tuesday afternoon. Please could you also make sure that children
have their names in their school clothes so we can make sure all children come
home in the correct clothing.
To support the children, we would be very grateful
if you could send in a family photo this week to help your child with their
activity about special people. Next week we will be reading the story of the Rainbow
fish. If you have any old cd`s we would really appreciate them to make
beautiful sun reflecting fish to hang up in our outside area.
Please continue to look out for messages and
pictures on the Mead Primary School face book page and the Mead Primary School
website. We like to capture special events during the week and share them with
you.
With thanks
from
The Early Years Foundation Stage Team
So after two weeks of
getting to know our Reception children it is now time for them to start
attending full time. The doors will open at 8.30 each day and close at 8.50 to
ensure a nice calm entry into school giving us the opportunity to say Good Morning
to each child and they can say Good Morning back to staff. Doors will then open
at 3.00 for collection. We would appreciate your promptness as staff often have
meetings to go to or clubs to run. Please check the lunch menu each day so the
children make sure they have food that they like. If the daily choices are not
suitable for your child please send in a packed lunch instead.
Now that the children are in full time each child
will have one long read with class staff per week. This gives us the
opportunity to spend quality time with each child listening to them and
practising their words. Key vocabulary will be practised regularly at school
and the children will have a story read to them at the end of every day and a
focus book read to them straight after lunch. It was so lovely to see so many
of you writing comments in the home/school reading record and developing the
importance of spending a little bit of time each day to develop the love of
reading.
We will
also be starting on our phonics programme this week by looking at the letters
m,a,s,d thinking about the sounds these letters make and how to form these
letters. We will also be introducing our maths programme Ten Town and exploring
the numbers 0.1.2. and 3. The children may come home talking about Zero pond,
King One, Tommy Two and Thelma Three. This is just part of the day and all
children will still have plenty of opportunity for exploration and
investigation of their environment both inside and outside and time to develop
the important personal and social aspects of meeting friends and communicating.
The covers came off of the sand pit, the sun came
out and the children went in to the sand pit when the builders announced that
it was ready. It was a truly wonderful sight to see such smiling faces and
excited conversations about building sand castles, making sand angels and
decisions about whether to go down the slide or through the tunnel.
Please ensure your child has their P.E kit in
school by Tuesday as the sports coach will teach the children for their regular
session every Tuesday afternoon. Please could you also make sure that children
have their names in their school clothes so we can make sure all children come
home in the correct clothing.
To support the children, we would be very grateful
if you could send in a family photo this week to help your child with their
activity about special people. Next week we will be reading the story of the Rainbow
fish. If you have any old cd`s we would really appreciate them to make
beautiful sun reflecting fish to hang up in our outside area.
Please continue to look out for messages and
pictures on the Mead Primary School facebook page and the Mead Primary School
website. We like to capture special events during the week and share them with
you.
With thanks
from
The Early Years Foundation Stage Team
