15.12.19
Parents/Carers
We hope you are enjoying your weekend so far!
Thank you to all of those who were able to make our Christmas performances, we hope you enjoyed them as much as the children. They did such an amazing job and made us all so proud.
Thank you as well for all of your donations in celebration of Christmas jumper day.
Even
though we are coming into our final week, we have a busy 5 days ahead.
Jamaica and St Lucia will be visiting Lidl on Monday and Barbados class
will follow Tuesday. On Wednesday we will visit St Paul's church and
have our very own Christingle service. We will also be having our class
parties this week and any donations of food would be greatly received by
Monday. We may even get a surprise visit from Father Christmas himself.
This week we will be reading a range of Christmas stories and having activities set up within the classrooms around this theme.
Our
class lending libraries are now up and running, some of your children
may have brought home a story book from school to read and share at home
with you on Friday. We kindly ask that once your child has finished
with their book, they return it to school where they can then choose
another story to read.
Over the Christmas period could we please ask you to actively encourage your child to dress/undress themselves independently showing them the correct way to put on their clothes and to also practice learning how to put on their coats correctly. We still have a lot of children who are reluctant and apprehensive in developing this life skill and we would greatly appreciate you helping to develop their confidence.
Here are some handy tips to help:
- Involve your child in learning the order of the dressing as early as
possible. Sing songs about dressing, talk to your child about
dressing, play dressing up games and practice dressing dolls or
teddies.
- Talk about the order of dressing when you or your child are dressing. Ask questions e.g. “What goes on next?”
- Lay clothes out in the order they should be put on. This is usually
easier if you lay them out in a line rather than putting them on top of
each other.
- Use a visual sequence chart
- Practice, practice, practice! Give your child opportunities for practice every day.
- If
your child makes a mistake help them to work out what went wrong and
how to fix it rather than telling them and sorting it out for them.
Sometimes you need them to complete the whole process so that they can
work out what went wrong. If they put their trousers on without their
pants let them dress completely and find the pants at the end. You can
ask questions to help them figure out what went wrong. You can compare
what you do with what they have done. You can have them look in the
mirror to work out what is wrong. Direct them back to their visual
sequence if they are using one.
As a
reminder the school day begins at 8.30am and for safety reasons the gates need
to be shut by 8.50am. In the mornings the children need to walk through the
main gate and enter through the Reception area doors. If you arrive
after the gate has closed, you will need to enter the main office where you
will be recorded as late. At 3.00pm Gate 1 will be open for parents and the
children will be released through the Reception area doors.
School
Uniform Reminder -
Please be
reminded that children are expected to continue to wear the appropriate uniform
of:
- Black or grey trousers
(Joggers in Nursery)
- White polo shirt with
a bottle green jumper or cardigan
- Black shoes or plain black
trainers (no
boots)
- Black or grey
skirt/dress
- Plain tights
Children will
not be permitted to wear Hoodies.
Only
plain school coloured head bands can be worn- no oversized bows.
Only
studs can we worn in school, please make sure these are removed for PE.
Please
ensure children do not have makeup on or acrylic/painted nails.
Uniform
will be given to those children who do not wear the correct uniform in the
morning and will need to be returned before the end of school.
Polite reminder - If your child has had a change of clothes from school, could you please ensure these are washed and returned to school before Friday.
We thank
your continued understanding and cooperation in leaving pushchairs at the
door. Some of our children are asking to come into school independently and we
appreciate you encouraging your child to with this.
As we
have learnt all of our set 1 sounds, this week we will be consolidating our
learning, practising correct letter formation and continuing to use our Fred
talk to spell CVC words.
In
maths this week we will be continuing solving addition and subtraction
problems, recognising and ordering our numbers with a Christmas theme.
Your child will continue to bring home a reading
book (which is changed weekly) and a set of sight words. The expectation is your
child reads at least 3 times or more each week. As we are promoting a love of
reading, we encourage your child to read a range of books and is not limited to
the one we send home with them.
We will
be using the Havering school menu which the children bought home. This week we
are on Week 2 of the menu. Monday’s choices are:
Red - Beef Burger in a Bun with Potato Curls
Blue - Cheesy Tomato Pasta
Green - Quorn Burger in a Bun with Potato
Curls
Messages
–
- PLEASE NAME all items of
clothing. This will help when returning lost items, particularly jumpers
and cardigans with the right child.
- If your child has had any
clothes from school could you please ensure these are washed and returned
to back.
- Our PE day is Thursday. Please ensure your child
has a named PE kit in school. If they wear earrings they need to be
removed on this day.
- Thank you to all those
parents who have sent in a named set of spare clothes. If you haven’t yet
could you please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes and
underwear on their peg as soon as possible.
- Children can also
bring in a pair of named wellies to leave in school. This would be great
for use in the mud kitchen and on rainy days.
- If your child suffers with
asthma please ensure their pump is in school and you have completed the
relevant paperwork at the main office.
- If your child is unwell,
please remember to call the school office on 01708 343616 and notify
them of your child's absence.
Breakfast
club is open from 7.45am. Please make sure there is sufficient money on your
child's sQuid account to make payment.
Important
dates:
INSET Dates and Polling day for 2019-20
INSET 1
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INSET 2
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INSET 3
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INSET 4
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INSET 5
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4th September
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3rd April
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20th July
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21st
July
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22nd July
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Last day
of the summer term will be Friday 17th July 2020.
Dates for your diary
Autumn 2
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Friday
13th December
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Christmas
Jumper Day
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Monday
16th and Tuesday 17th December
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Reception
visit Lidl
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Tuesday
17th December
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Class
parties
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Wednesday
18th December
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St
Pauls Church visit
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Wednesday
18th December
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Christmas
dinner
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Friday
20th December
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Last
day of term
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Monday
6th January
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Children
Return to school after Christmas
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Our learning objectives this term will be listed under these headings:
Personal, Social and Emotional
Begins
to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes
with support from others.
Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met, and
understands wishes may not always be met.
Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.
Communication and Language
Shows understanding of prepositions by carrying out an action or
selecting correct picture.
Can retell a simple past event in correct order.
Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what,
when, how.
Literacy
Enjoys an increasing range of books.
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
Hears and says initial sounds in words.
Physical Development:
Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with
other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
Experiments with different ways of moving.
Moves with confidence in a range of ways, negotiating space.
Mathematics
Shows interest in shape by sustained construction activity or by talking
about shapes or arrangements.
Selects a particular named shape.
Can describe their relative position such as 'behind' or 'next to'.
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the
address is:
eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
We look forward to
welcoming you back to school tomorrow.
On behalf of everyone in Reception we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
