• Class Rules

• to use kinds hands and feet
• to be kind and caring
• to put our hand up when we wish to say something
• to always walk around school

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wedneday. Your child needs to bring a PE kit in a drawstring bag as we do not have room for rucksacks on our pegs. PE kits consist of white shorts, a blue school T-shirt and pumps or trainers. Please try to avoid lace up trainers unless your child is already able to tie them independently. If it is cooler, your child can also wear their school jumper and navy or black leggings or joggers.

Please ensure all clothes are labelled (including vests)as clothes easily get mixed up as your child starts to learn to dress and undress independently and has to organise their own belongings. Belongings cannot be returned if they are not named. 

Literacy

This term your child will be looking at two books for Literacy. The first book we will be looking at is Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke. This story will give your children the opportunity to engage in story times and be involved with the retelling of the story in different ways. They will be orally retelling the story using new vocabulary learnt throughout each lesson. The new vocabulary that your child will be learning, will support the beginning of their reading journey. Your child will use their knowledge of this book to engage in sequencing, writing and drawing activities.

The second book your child will be looking at this term is The Journey Home. This book will further support your child’s learning in Reception where your child will develop their understanding around engaging in different story times, whilst developing their familiarity and knowledge about it. Your child will be using a wider range of vocabulary, where they can talk about the story to build familiarity and understanding, whilst also continuing to develop their listening skills and why listening is important. Throughout this book your child will be practicing to use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing, applying what they have learnt during their phonics sessions.

Topic

Our topic after Christmas is Chinese New Year. The children will learn about different cultures and be able to talk about cultural similarities and differences both in this country and in other countries. They will use maps to find out about different countries and look at a range of non-fiction texts too. 

After February half term the topic is called Egg Or No Egg. The children will learn about life cycles of a range of creatures that hatch from eggs. They will also get first hand experience of the hatching process as we get to watch chicks hatch, then look after them for a week at the beginining of March. The children will learn about important processes and changes in the natural world in this topic, including looking at the changes in seasons. 

What to bring to school

A water bottle will need to be brought to school everyday filled with water only. This item must please be named. Your children will be offered milk at snack time but will have access to their water bottles throughout the day.

A sun hat or raincoat will be required depending on the weather. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed approrpaitely for the weather that day. Please apply sun cream on your child before they come to school as we are unable to put it on for them. 

You can send a pair of wellies into school which can stay on our wellie rack if you would like to. Please make sure these are named. If you don't have spare wellies, please ensure on wet days your child comes to school in wellies as we try to go outside everyday and wellies allow the children more freedom to play when it's wet. 
 

Uniform

Please label every item of uniform your child comes to school in, especially cardigans and jumpers and check regularly as they often fade in the wash if it has been written on in pen. Please include coats and shoes in your labelling as the children often have the same ones as a friends.