Term:
Autumn 1
Date: 01.10.17
Dear Parents/Carers,
What a fantastic first full week the children have had in school. We were greeted with many smiley faces each morning, with children keen to see their new friends and explore the learning opportunities within their classrooms. The children have shown great independence and resilience in our early morning routines and we actively encourage parents to continue to promote this.
We are on Week 3 of the Havering School Menu please remember to go through the choices with your child:
Monday
Lamb
Mint Grills with yoghurt and cucumber dip with oven baked potato wedgesHomemade pea and bacon pasta
Vegetarian sausage roll with oven baked potato wedges
Our school day begins from 8.30-8.45am with a 3.00pm collection time. In the mornings the children need to walk through the main gate and enter through the Reception area doors. We are kindly reminding parents with buggies to please leave them at the Reception area doors and not bring them into the corridors. At 3.00pm Gate 3 is also open for parents and the children will be released through the Reception area doors. Please do not crowd the doors at the end of the day and as soon as Teachers have seen you they will hand your child over to you.
Each week we will provide you with a newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you up to date with any relevant news in Reception. It will include a list of intended learning objectives, an overview of activities, the learning challenge (which we will not commence until the second part of the Autumn term), notices, important dates and the stories and topics that we will be focussing on.
We hope you had a chance to look at our starting school blogs which appeared on the Mead blog page and on Facebook. Please remember to check these regularly for updates.
Our story this week will be ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen. We will be providing the children opportunities to bring this story to life by going on a bear hunt ourselves, making our own bears using fruit and bread and also providing other opportunities for them to demonstrate their creativity.
In maths this week we will be introducing the children to ‘Ten town’, which is a programme used to introduce numbers and help your child to accurately form them with an accompanying rhyme.
We will be beginning our Read, Write, Inc lessons and your child will be learning the following sounds m,a,s,d. To help consolidate their learning of these sounds on Friday we will be sending home some letter formation sheets for them to practise with.
The learning objectives will be listed under these headings:
Personal, Social and Emotional
Can select and use activities and resources with help
Shows confidence in asking adults for help
Communication and Language
To follow directions
To use talk to connect ideas
Literacy
To sometimes give meanings to the marks they draw and paint
Listens to and joins in with stories
Physical Development:
Runs skillfully and negotiates space
Mounts stairs, steps or climbing equipment
Mathematics
Beginning to recite numbers in order to 10
Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set
This newsletter will be posted on our EYFS blog and Facebook page at the beginning of each week.
Messages.
With the weather changing it would be really useful if the children had a pair of wellington boots in school and also a spare pair of clothes.
Please also remember to check the Parent Notice Boards outside your child’s class as these are updated regularly.
Rewards Strategies
Just so you are aware we follow a whole school approach to behaviour management, incorporating the 4 R’s which can be found on the school website along with the values. To ensure the system is age appropriate we use a happy and sad face within the Early Years. To ensure a close partnership we will work with you if your child keeps finding their name on the red face.
Dates for your diary:
Tuesday 3rd October 8.30-9.00 Stay and Read session
Parents are invited to stay and share books with their child in the classroom.
Tuesday 3rd October -9.00 Parent Read Write Inc Workshop
You are invited to a session to show you how to support your child at home with learning to read and we will explain the phonics system that we use in school.
Friday 13th October – Reception children will be having a workshop on the Rainbow Fish story.
Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th October - Parent Evenings
The school will be closed on the following days for pupils
INSET Days: Polling Day:
9th February 3rd May
25th May
29th June
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
Staff are also available straight after school to discuss any concerns that you may have.
Kind regards
The Reception Team
