Week beginning Monday 2nd November

It was wonderful to see the children return to school after half-term excited to learn and see their friends again.

This week our learning has been based around the alphabet. We have talked about letters, have sung the alphabet song and have looked at capital letters too. We have made our own little books about letters and objects that start with sounds that we have chosen. Outside we enjoyed a letter sound scavenger hunt. We looked for pictures of objects with particular initial letter sounds and some of us used our letter sound knowledge to attempt to write the word too.

In Whizzy Maths this week we have learnt about number 5. We have practised writing number 5 and have found about different ways we can make 5 such as 3 and 2, 5 and 0, 4 and 1.

On Thursday we found out about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate Bonfire Night with fireworks. We had lots of fun with fireworks art and many of us loved adding glitter to our pictures!

This week in PE we had our first gymnastics lesson, and we learnt how to make some of the gymnastics shapes with our bodies.

How you can help 

Please remember that your child needs to wear a pair of shorts under their jogging bottoms each Wednesday for our gymnastics lessons. They will remove their jogging bottoms and participate in their gymnastics lessons in their shorts then put their jogging bottoms back on afterwards. Please also ensure that long hair is tied back and earrings are either removed on Wednesdays or covered with surgical tape.

As the weather has now changed, please make sure your child comes to school each day with a warm, waterproof coat. Please continue to help your child learn to do put their coat on and do it up independently. Many thanks for your ongoing support.

Year R Phonics and Reading presentation

Thank you to the parents who took time out of their evening to attend the presentation.

Please find the presentation slides below. The videos shown during the evening can be found under the 'For Parents' tab on the Little Wandle website. Please remind yourself of the key points that Mrs Chapman shared a few weeks ago. These can also be found below in the Home Reading handout.

If you have any questions, please pop in and see the class teacher. 

Thank you for your support.

Year R Curriculum Presentation

Letter formation and handwriting

Please find images of how to support your child in achieving the correct letter formation.

• lower-case letters start at the top
• dots and horizontal cross lines are added after the main part of the letter has been formed
• capital letters start at the top and go down first, the pencil is then taken off the paper to add the horizontal lines

It is extremely important that your child uses a comfortable and efficient pencil grip, even though this may not be the same as your own. This should be the pincer grip.

Climbing the tree to a better me

Our special tree focuses on the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Social aspect of our learning. In Year R we are practising using our manners, being a good friend and being respectful and responsible.

We can earn three stars for each rung of the ladder and at the end of the year we can earn a special sticker at the top of the tree for our effort in trying to show these things.

When we have collected three stars of the same colour we can show our certificate in assembly and our name is moved up the ladder in class to show our progress.