Welcome Back to Term 5!

This term our topic is 'Traditional Tales!'

Please find our Termly Curriculum Newsletter below, which will provide you with an insight into our learning this term. All of the key information and dates for Reception can also be found below. 

Thank you!

Miss Harding & The EYFS Team.

Welcome

New Parents and Children 

Welcome to your first term at school!

The children have settled into St Patrick's School really well and are off to a brilliant start. Thank you for all your enthusiasm getting them ready and excited about school. We will be introducing Tapestry in the upcoming weeks which is an online learning journal for all children in Reception. Your child will receive at least one observation and picture per week on Tapestry. Please check the Tapestry page regularly and read the school newsletter to keep up-to-date with important information. 

Snack time

Every day at 10.00am the children have snack time. The children who are on the milk list will have milk and the rest will have water. Please ensure your child has a water bottle. We have a different snack delivered each day and we are not always aware of what this will be. Therefore, if your child only likes certain fruit/veg, please provide them with a daily, healthy snack. 

School dinners and packed lunches

The children eat their lunch in the school hall. Please remind your child not to share any food or drink with other children due to allergies, etc. Please ensure your child has a well-balanced healthy lunch box.

Learning

Reading: Developing a passion for reading is crucial for a child to want to continue their reading journey. We will start Phonics on Monday 18^th September and will learn a new sound most days. The scheme reading books that will come home for the first few weeks will have no words to start with and this is deliberate! Tell the story together using the pictures. This is the beginning of their reading journey so little, often and fun is best. Reading books will be changed every Monday (please see the Tab on Reading for more info and activities to try across the week). Please send your child in with their reading book every day as we like to listen to children read across the week. Please sign the reading record when you have listened to your child read. 

Writing: Name recognition and beginning to write first names is such a huge achievement for all children. Please encourage your child to do this. All the children have to find their name on their locker and they will practise writing their name as a morning activity once the children are fully settled. Remember, you don't have to just use pen and paper. Get creative!  

Number: Count everything and everywhere! Give the children the opportunity to explore numbers in the environment. Look for different numbers on walks, press the numbers on appliances, use money, etc.

Home Learning (weekly homework)

The children will have a reading book for a week, a 'word of the week' to investigate and either a phonic or number activity once a week. You will receive a Home Learning sheet via Tapestry, every Thursday. Please return this via Tapestry on the following Wednesday so we can look at the wonderful work and prepare new home learning. You do not need to return paper copies and can instead upload photographs of your child's home learning through Tapestry.

P.E Uniform

Please send your child into school wearing a warm PE Uniform every Wednesday. P.E. will start on Wednesday 27th September.

Other

WOW Moments: We have created a 'WOW' wall in our school corridor for the Reception Children. This board will be up all year and it will be updated regularly. We want to develop a strong partnership with families. It would be fantastic if we could hear about your child and what they may have achieved at home. This can be as simple as ''sleeping in their own bed for the week'' or ''learning to ride their bike''. We would like parents to send in any certificates, photographs, work or slips of paper explaining the WOW moment. We will then photocopy these and add them to our WOW wall.

Belongings: Please make sure all clothes and home items are labelled so your child comes home with their belongings. 

We are really looking forward to working with you this year!

From

The Early Years Team

As a school we have graduated English Hub Project. We follow the scheme 'Unlocking Letters and Sounds' to teach phonics and we are using the 'Big Cats' reading scheme. Please see the reading part of our website for more information. 

Please click the link below to find the page dedicated to for Whole School Annual Plans.