What have we been learning this week?

Week Commencing Monday 1st December 2025 

Can you guess this week's book using our clue container clues?? A carrot, broccoli, cape, superhero mask, potato masher and..... a potato! That's right - Supertato! We have loved being superheroes and catching Evil Pea - putting him and his friends in an envelope and using tweezers to put them in different containers. We have made our own superhero out of card, toilet rolls and made some cards to send to superheroes in the community. Our art skills have been developing well and we have used sponges to print different  vegetables, making observational sketches of fruits and vegetables and learning how to draw Supertato himself!

How you can help:

Please remember to try to read with your child as often as possible - little and often works best, even if you just read through the phonic sounds and practise a set of key words. When learning to read books with words, it is important that the book is read more than once across the week to develop your child's confidence, pace and fluency. Please continue to record in the reading diary so that we know to change the books, thank you.

We have uploaded to Google Classroom a little (optional) fun challenge that you may like to do. Ideas can be found on the post and, given the success of this week's theme, we think many of the children might like to do it! Have fun everyone!!

 Curriculum Presentations

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.