Year Six Boosters sessions

Invitations were sent sent home on Wednesday 8th January, for children to attend Sats boosters after school. The booster sessions begin next week (commencing the 13th January) and the letters told pupils which subject they had been invited to and the day the booster will be on.

If you have any questions please speak to one of the year 6 team.

Many thanks,

Year 6

University of Mead: craft club

This year craft club is looking to collect plastic bottle lids for our big finale of university of mead. Please could you collect as many as possible and send them to Chile class so the pupils have enough to complete the project.

Thank you in advance,

Miss Hinchliffe

Jars needed!

Good afternoon and a happy new year to you all,

If you find yourself with any empty jars at home, could you possibly send them in with your children to Northern Ireland class before Friday 17th of January please? The jars will be used as a part of the mindfulness course for University of Mead so will be much appreciated!

Many thanks,
Miss Cunningham.

Year 3's Reading Question of the Week

Happy New Year!

This week's question to ask the children while you read with them at home is:

Can you describe what has happened in this paragraph/chapter?

Happy reading!

Year 4 Swimming Reminder

Good evening and happy new year to you all,

Year 4 swimming will resume tomorrow (Monday 6th January). Please ensure your child has a full swimming kit including a swimming hat. Hats can be purchased from the school for £1.50 if a replacement is needed.

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow,

The Year Four Team

Reception Newsletter Spring 1 Week 1

We would like to wish all our families a very Happy New Year. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Thank you so much for all the wonderful cards and gifts that we received. We were overwhelmed by your generosity and really do appreciate your kindness.

As we enter our Spring term we know this is the term that we really see the children's early skills start to develop. The children begin to start decoding words and early writing starts to emerge, please support your child by ensuring you hear your child read at least 3 times a week. This really will make a big difference in their progress.

This week we will be starting our topic on Traditional tales with the story of "The Little Red Hen".

The children will be talking about the concept of helping each other to get a job done and making bread ,watching the changes that occur.

In maths the children will be returning to their favourite 10 town to learn about the teen numbers.

In Read,write inc the children will now work in small groups according to where they are up to with learning to blend. This will help the children to progress at their own level.

We will be starting our P.E sessions again on Thursday so please ensure that the children have their P.E kits back in school ready for their lesson. Please could you check that your child has the right P.E clothes in their bag as we do have some missing items. Maisy Sayers in Barbados is missing a whole bag so we would appreciate you checking at home for us. Thank you.

School Uniform Reminder - 

 http://www.haveringschoolwear.co.uk/Find-Your-School/Mead-Primary-School/

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 back to us.

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.

We will be using the Havering school menu which the children bought home. This week we are on Week 3  of the menu. Monday’s choices are:

                                 Red - Chicken Fillet in a Bun with 1/2 Jacket Potato

                                 Blue - Ravioli Pasta (VE)

                                Green - Vegetable Burger in a Bun with 1/2 Jacket Potato

Here is a link to the menu choices htps://www.haveringcatering.co.uk/schooldata/mead-infant-primary-school/

 INSET Dates for 2019-20

INSET 1	INSET 2	INSET 3	INSET 4	INSET 5
4th September	3rd April	20th July	21st July	22nd July

Last day of the summer term will be Friday 17^th July 2020.

You can access Havering term dates for 2019-2010 here: https://www.havering.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2023/term_dates_2019-2020.pdf

Dates for your diary

Spring 1
Monday 6th January	Children return to school for start of new term
Tuesday 14th January	Charlie Wilson storyteller in school for        Reception  children

Thursday 16th January	Stay and Read session 8.30-9.00am
Friday  14th February	Break up for half Term

The learning objectives for this half term are:

Personal, Social and Emotional:

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.

Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities 

Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.

Communication and Language:

Joins in with repeated refrains.

Can retell a simple story.

Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.


Literacy

Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipated key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.


Physical Development: 

Forms recognisable letters.

Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Runs skilfully and negotiates spaces successfully.


Mathematics

To recap number recognition 0-10.

To recap number formation 0-10.

To confidently count to 20 and beyond demonstrating place value.


Understanding the World:

Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experiences.

Shows an interests in different ways of life.

Can talk about some of the things they have observed.


Expressive arts and design:

Constructs with a purpose in mind.

Manipulates material to achieve a planned effect.

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is: 

eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk

Kind Regards

The Reception Team

Nursery Newsletter -Spring 1 Week 1

Happy New Year to all our families and we hope you have had a wonderful Christmas. Welcome to our first newsletter of 2020.

We would like to say a massive Thank you for all our Christmas cards, kind gifts and good wishes. We were really overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity.

Thank you so much.

It will be lovely to welcome our children back to school to start their Spring term and we have a few new children starting so a huge welcome to those children and their families.

We look forward to sharing your child`s learning journey with you.

This week we will be doing some simple new term assessments to see how the children are progressing with their language, mark making,drawing and numbers. This allows us to help the children progress from the level they are at.

We will also be telling the children the story of "The 3 little pigs" and over the next 2 weeks our classroom enhancements will be based around this popular story.

May we remind you that the closing date for applications for Reception places is the 15th January.

We believe most people have now completed their forms but if you haven`t  we are more than happy to give you some help with this.

During the Winter months please make sure your child attends Nursery with a waterproof jacket each day. Additional hats/scarfs etc may be needed if the weather is cold. We do believe in the children having some outdoor time each day but on particularly bad days we will keep them under the canape.
Please be aware children may finish Nursery slightly messy or slightly damp from playing outside. We believe that children learn a great deal from playing in different weather conditions and please be assured that your children will not be left in soaking wet clothing for the whole session. If you would like to send spare clothes in to keep at Nursery incase of accidents please hand them to one of the Nursery staff in a named bag.

Nursery times
Please be aware of our Nursery times. We have different sessions running throughout the day where children start/finish at different times.. Nursery times have been carefully planned for the settling of every child.

8.30am- 2 year olds and morning children enter classroom, 30 hour children enter classroom.

11.15-11.30- 2 year olds and morning children home time.

12.30- 2 year olds and afternoon children start time

2.45pm- 30 hour children home time

3.15-3.30- 2 year olds and afternoon children home time.

We now have the opportunity for our morning children to attend additional afternoon sessions if you have an appointment. These will cost 15 pounds for the extra lunchtime and afternoon session.
Bookings must be made by 12p.m on the previous Friday. Please talk to Nursery staff if you need some advice with this.


The Newsletter will also be published on the EYFS blog. You can view this from the school website: http://www.mead.havering.sch.uk or by following the school facebook page.


Please  email staff if you have  any queries on eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk or feel free to pop in and see us if you have any concerns.


Kind regards,

The Nursery Team