Thank You and Happy Holidays!

We would just like to thank all of our fabulous families for the lovely gifts, cards, hugs and kind words. We have had a fantastic year together and although we are going to miss the children, we know they will have a great time in Year 1. 

Even though they are off to pastures new, they are taking Mrs Holmes, Mrs Voyce, Mrs Jimmick and Mrs Matthews with them. We will also be keeping a little eye on them, as we love that we get to start their adventure at Down Hall and then follow it as they move up through the school!

We hope you all have a fantabulous summer and we look forward to seeing you all in September. Please remember the children are due back on Tuesday 3rd September.

Our email account will still be checked periodically over the summer, should any of you have a query and we are happy to help if we can. 

Thank you once again for your kindness and for trusting us with your lovely children this year!

With all our love,

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor, Miss Langley, Mrs Fincham, Mrs Voyce, Mrs Jimmick, Mrs Matthews and Mrs Holmes xxxxxxxx

22.07.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone! 

It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of our journey together and that soon the summer holidays will be here! There is not much to say this week, just a few notices.

Upcoming Date

Tuesday 23rd July              Wellbeing day and whole school picnic

UNICEF Shoeshare Appeal

We are raising money for UNICEF by taking part in the Shoeshare scheme with Clarks of Rayleigh.  So, please search your cupboards for old pairs of shoes that you no longer need!  Send them to school and we will do the rest.  Shoes need to be in pairs and of a wearable condition.  Money will be used by UNICEF to support education projects around the world.  Every child has the right to an education (A28 &29 UNCRC) and as a Gold Rights Respecting School we are proud to be supporting UNICEF with this project.

Final day arrangements

Don't forget that on the last day of term, the children can come to school wearing comfy clothes. We are also having our picnic on the field with our families from 12-1pm and school finishes for the summer break at 1pm that day.

Have a lovely weekend, 

Love

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley xxx

15.07.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone! 

We hope you have all enjoyed our new look Sports Day today and had a lovely time. We are thankful that the weather behaved itself this week and we managed to hold it. This week has been a very busy one for Pearl and Quartz. We have had a visit from 4 Police Officers and their 2 vehicles, they told us all about their jobs and we got to have a turn to make the sirens and lights work on their vehicles. Then on Thursday we met our new teachers and spent time in our new classes! 

Upcoming Dates

Monday 15th July               Reports out

Tuesday 16th July              Class swaps - children spending time with their new teacher

Friday 19th July                  Class swaps - children spending time with their new teacher

Friday 19th July                  PTA disco

Tuesday 23rd July              Wellbeing day and whole school picnic

Reading Books

In preparation for next year, we will be collecting in all reading books on Wednesday 17th July. If you know you will be away before this date, please hand in your reading book before this date. We would encourage you all to take part in the summer reading scheme at the library during the holidays to help keep up your child's reading during the 6 week break.

UNICEF Shoeshare Appeal

We are raising money for UNICEF by taking part in the Shoeshare scheme with Clarks of Rayleigh.  So, please search your cupboards for old pairs of shoes that you no longer need!  Send them to school and we will do the rest.  Shoes need to be in pairs and of a wearable condition.  Money will be used by UNICEF to support education projects around the world.  Every child has the right to an education (A28 &29 UNCRC) and as a Gold Rights Respecting School we are proud to be supporting UNICEF with this project.

On to our learning for this week, we will be:

• Sharing the story "One Year with Kipper" and thinking about our first year at school.
• Finishing the last of our handwriting patterns in our Start-Bee sessions.
• Thinking about our project and checking if we have answered all of the questions we asked at the start of the project.
• Discussing the story "The Worrysaurus" in our Circle Time session.
• Visiting our new classes, Bluebell and Daffodil on Tuesday and Friday.

Our final drop in session for the year will be on WEDNESDAY.

Have a lovely weekend, 

Love

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley xxx

08.07.24 - This week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

What a difference a week makes, weather wise! We were very disappointed that the rain spoilt the plans for Sports Day - but please note our reserve date is next Friday. Due to the forecast for tomorrow, more rain and high winds, the PTA have made the difficult decision to postpone the fete too. This will now take place on Saturday 7th September and we are sure it will be a great start to the new academic year.

Upcoming Dates

Thursday 11th July             Children meeting their new teachers

Thursday 11th July             Open School - 3.45pm to 5.30pm

Friday 12th July                  Sports Day

Monday 15th July               Reports out

Tuesday 16th July              Class swaps - children spending time with their new teacher

Friday 19th July                  Class swaps - children spending time with their new teacher

Friday 19th July                  PTA disco

Tuesday 23rd July              Wellbeing day and whole school picnic

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Meeting a real life superhero on Tuesday and finding out all about their work.
• Writing about real life superheroes, explaining what they do.
• Sharing and discussing the stories "Tilda Tries Again" and "Finn's Little Fibs" in our Circle Time sessions.
• Solving different problems in our Mathematics sessions.
• Hopefully, getting to enjoy our Sports Day on Friday, working together as teams to win points for our houses. 

Sorry, there is no drop in session again this week, due to open school on Thursday.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

01.07.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

WOW, this week has been a scorcher! The children have been so amazing and coped really well despite how hot the classrooms have got. They did enjoy Miss Langley spraying them with the hose in our learning garden - it certainly helped everyone cool down!

Upcoming Dates

Friday 5th July                    Sports Day

Saturday 6th July                PTA Fete

Thursday 11th July             Children meeting their new teachers

Thursday 11th July             Open School - 3.45pm to 5.30pm

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Starting to think about some real life superheroes and how they might help us. 
• Sharing and discussing the story "Meesha Makes Friends" in our Circle Time session.
• Exploring mapping in our Mathematics sessions, including trying to make some of our own.
• Working on some difficult patterns in our Start-Bee handwriting sessions, remembering to try and manage it all in one pencil stroke.
• Enjoying our Sports Day on Friday, working together as teams to win points for our houses. 

Sorry, there is no drop in session this week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

24.06.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a lovely week in Early Years, spending time looking after our chicks and doing some super writing all about Jack Jack. 

Upcoming Dates

Friday 5th July                    Sports Day (The information for this can be found here)

Saturday 6th July                PTA Fete

Thursday 11th July             Children meeting their new teachers

Thursday 11th July             Open School - 3.45pm to 5.30pm

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing the Superhero story about Max and Pinky.
• Writing different sentences in our Phonics sessions, using our sounds to help us. 
• Using positional language in our Mathematics sessions, describing where different things are placed.
• Creating some flying Superheroes using our handprints and then writing a speech bubble for them.
• Reading and discussing the story "Perfectly Norman".

This week there will be a drop in on THURSDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

17.06.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had an eggciting week in Early Years! We had 10 eggs arrive on Monday and by the end of the week 9 have hatched. We have learnt how to take care of our chicks and know how important it is to make sure they are safe and have plenty of food and water.

Today we have also completed our Race for Life. We all went onto the field together to complete our laps. The Just Giving page will be remaining open until the end of term, a link to the page can be found here. 

Upcoming Dates:

Tuesday 18th June             Book Fair (Tuesday - Friday)
Friday 5th July                    Sports Day

Saturday 6th July                PTA Fete

Thursday 11th July             Children meeting their new teachers

Thursday 11th July             Open School - 3.45pm to 5.30pm

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Writing about Jack Jack, using the word banks we have created and remembering to include important information, for example discussing his powers. (We ran out of time this week for this activity!)
• Continuing to care for our chickens before they are returned to "Our Garden Hens".
• Learning about patterns in our Mathematics sessions, identifying the unit of repeat each time.
• Playing a game using our "Super Senses", this week we will be using the sense of touch.
• Sharing and discussing the stories "Ravi's Roar" and "Milo's Monster" in our Circle Time sessions.
• Having our final "catch up" swimming session on WEDNESDAY.

This week there will be a drop in on MONDAY.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

10.06.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a lovely first week back and everyone looked amazing today for our Times Table Rockstar Day! 

As we are now in the last half term we thought we would start the blogs each week with some important upcoming diary dates.

Friday 14th June                 PTA Father's Day Sale (in school time)

Tuesday 18th June             Book Fair (starts on 18th for the week, also see info below from                                              Miss Harvey
Friday 5th July                    Sports Day

Saturday 6th July                PTA Fete

PTA Father's Day Sale

On Friday 14th June the PTA will be running a Father's Day sale in school. During the day your child will have the chance to attend the sale if you wish them to. The items are priced between £1-£3.50. We ask that the children bring money in a named purse, wallet or envelope, along with a carrier bag with their name on to hold the purchased items.

Book Fair Competitions

To be in with a chance to win a £5 voucher for the Book Fair, we are holding some competitions for you to enter. There are 5 vouchers up for grabs so 5 competitions are running.

They are:

Competition 1: Everyone - Design a new wand and include a description explaining what it is made from.

Competition 2: EYFS/ KS1 - Design a new front cover for your favourite book.

Competition 3: KS2 -  Design a new front cover for your favourite book.

Competition 4: EYFS/ KS1 - Design a bookmark.

Competition 5: KS2 - The most words read on Accelerated Reader the week before (these will be checked by Miss Harvey in school).

These can be done on paper and given to Miss Harvey (or any of the Early Years team) or you can even use ClassDojo to send your entry digitally. You  can enter more than one competition as long as it is for your phase. All competition entries to be in by Wednesday 12th June and the winner will be announced in assembly on Friday 14th June

Winners will receive a certificate, £5 voucher for the book fair and their name will be entered to win a special prize at the end of the term. The Book fair is running from Tuesday 18th to Friday 21st June and there is a 3 for 2 offer so please come along to support the school.

Miss Harvey

Now on to the learning for this coming week, we will be:

• Writing about Jack Jack, using some of our ideas from the word bank we created last week.  
• Discussing new Vocabulary Ninja words. 
• Working on Odd and Even numbers and Doubling in our Mathematics sessions.
• Watching the story "One Odd Day" and making our own odd creatures.
• Sharing and discussing the story "Ruby's Worry" in our Circle Time session. 
• Making some special cards to take home on Friday.

Drop in will be on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

03.06.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

We hope you have all had a lovely half term. We will be starting our new project next week, so we are looking forward to seeing all of the children's Superhero ideas! If you have misplaced the sheets, they can be found on the Early Years part of the school website, or by clicking here.

On to our learning for the first week back, we will be:

• Sharing our Half Term news and our ideas for our new project.
• Watching and discussing the Disney short "Jack-Jack Attack".
• Thinking about the main character in the film and what they were like, working in a group to describe Jack Jack.
• Sharing and grouping numbers of things, as we start to learn about division.
• Creating mini superhero puppets, by carefully cutting them out.
• Enjoying our Rock Star day on Friday - please remember the children will still have their PE session so need to wearing something that is appropriate for PE.

There is no drop in this week - drop in sessions will start again the following week.

Don't forget, tomorrow is an INSET day with school closed to the children. We will see you all on Tuesday morning!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

20.05.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

With just one week left of this term, time certainly seems to be flying. The children have spent this week learning about a range of minibeasts and we will continue this next week, when we finish the book "Mad About Minibeasts". Mrs O'Connor will also be sharing her knowledge about Bees. She had come to speak to the children on Thursday, dressed in her beekeeper outfit. The children are very excited to learn all about hives, honey and bees!

Miss Wakefield and Miss Langley are off to the Isle of Wight next week, on the Year 6 residential. This means the children will have Mrs O'Connor next week. 

So on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Finishing reading the poems in the book "Mad About Minibeasts".
• Learning all about Bees with Mrs O'Connor. 
• Finishing our unit on shape in our Mathematics sessions.
• Checking that we have answered all the questions posed by the children at the start of our Minibeast project.
• Updating our name displays in the classes, trying our very best to form all of the letters correctly. 
• Enjoying a Wellbeing day at the end of term - wearing a piece of Green clothing if possible, to support Mental Health Awareness Week. 

There is no drop in this week. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley 

13.05.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

It has been a crazy week here, we've packed in SO much into our 4 days. The children have been artists, scientists, athletes and much, much more! 

We hope the children are enjoying sharing their reading books at home, please can we just remind you that all books MUST be returned each Friday as we swap them around for the following week. We are very proud of how well the children have adapted to these new sessions. Mrs Wood popped down to see it today and was very impressed with everyone's reading.

Now on to the learning for this coming week, we will be:

• Sharing the book "Mad About Minibeasts!" which is full of rhymes about different minibeasts.
• Learning some facts about some of those minibeasts like snails, slugs and bees.
• Listening to Mrs O'Connor telling us all about her bees and showing us some of the equipment she uses to take care of them.
• Updating our name displays in our classrooms to show how fabulous our writing is.
• Continuing our work on shapes in our Mathematics sessions.
• Discussing the book "Kipper's Monster" in our Circle Time session.

The last drop in session for this half term will be on THURSDAY. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

06.05.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week, not only have we had the excitement of our trip, we have also had a very spidery time! We've carefully followed instructions to make our own spiders and made some fridge magnet spiders too. 

On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Watching the story "The Grasshopper and the Ants" and talking about who did the right things and why.
• Creating our own snail collage, printing the shell and cutting out the bodies and comparing our masterpieces to "The Snail" by Henri Matisse.
• Using the magnifying glasses we have made this week on some bug hunts around the school grounds.
• Starting a new unit of learning in Mathematics, working with shapes.

This week's drop in will be on Friday, we will be showing photographs from our trip.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

29.04.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week was a very exciting one as both Pearl and Quartz have now reached 1000 Class Dojos. The children decided to opt for a "small gift" as their reward - this is their new keyring on their bags. We have been really proud of how well the children are coming in by themselves this week too, lots of Dojos have been awarded for this. We would ask that you please continue to do this. We know that there are some children who are finding it difficult and that some of you are reducing the distance you walk - this is absolutely fine as we certainly do not want to upset any of your children, it is simply to try and prepare them for Year 1.

We are looking forward to next week, when we will be very busy, we will be:

• Sharing and discussing the story "The Very Busy Spider", which is another story by Eric Carle.
• Reading and ordering instructions to make our own spiders.
• Searching for webs and spiders in our garden and learning how and why spiders make webs.
• Creating some spider fridge magnets and then using them to carry out a science experiment.
• Finishing our ladybird labels from last week as we ran out of time.
• Going on our first school trip on Wednesday to "Call of the Wild!"

This week's drop in will be on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

22.04.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a very busy first week back, starting with our whole school art day, which the children loved!  We have also had the first swimming session of this term and again the children were fabulous. For the rest of the week the children have been learning about caterpillars and butterflies. The children all made their very own caterpillar and sequenced the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". A huge thank you to all of you who have helped your children complete their minibeast ideas sheet, we have loved looking through these and will continue to do so next week. The children have also created artwork this week to show the lifecycle of a butterfly and Mrs O'Connor has used it to create a lovely display. 

On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing another book by Eric Carle, this time it is all about a bad-tempered ladybird.
• Retelling the story "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird and thinking about how the ladybird behaved and whether this was the right thing to do, sharing our ideas during Circle Time.
• Watching a film showing the life cycle of a ladybird.
• Labelling the different parts of a ladybird.
• Learning about time, making different o'clock times, just like those in the story.
• Making our very own ladybirds using pebbles.

We will also be continuing our reading sessions next week. The books that have come home today will be collected back in on Friday and swapped for the children's next one.

As we are now in the Summer Term, we will be starting to get the children ready for their move into Key Stage 1. With this is mind, it is time for them to start walking round to Early Years by themselves and saying goodbye to you at the gate. We have already got a number of children who do this and we are very proud of their independence. We would ask that from Monday you start to let your child walk to Early Years by themselves. We realise, that depending on which gate you use, some children have further to walk than others. If you come in via the Brooklyn Drive or Torquay Close gates please start by walking part of the way with your child, allowing them to do the final bit by themselves. It is often the parents that find this the most difficult, your children are used to navigating their way from one end of school to the other on a daily basis and will be fine. We also appreciate that there are times when you might need to talk to us about something, please remember that we do check both our Class Dojo and the email address on a daily basis so messages can always be sent there, shared to the adult on the main school gates or indeed saved for home time.

Drop in sessions are starting back up again and this week it will take place on THURSDAY. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

15.04.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We hope you have all had a lovely Easter break. We are looking forward to seeing the children again to start the Summer term. We would be really grateful if the children could bring in their sheets about our Minibeasts project this coming week. If you are unable to find them, then they can also be found here.

On to our new learning for this coming week:

• Sharing the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.
• Watching a film version of the story and comparing it to the book.
• Sequencing the events in the story.
• Starting our new Reading sessions (see below).
• Learning a song to help us remember the days of the week.
• Creating our own repeating pattern caterpillars, printing using corks.
• Starting our new units in JIGSAW and Charanga.
• Playing a new Circle Time game, trying to pass bells around our circle without them making a sound!
• Starting our swimming lessons again on Wednesday!

New Reading Scheme

As mentioned at the parent/teacher meetings, we collected in everyone's reading book prior to the Easter break in order to make way for the new reading scheme we are starting. The children will have a book which they will use in Guided Reading during the first week back and then on Friday 19th April, they will be bringing this book home as their home reading book. It will be really important that the children keep this book in their book bags as we will need to collect them in weekly to swap for the next ones.

Art Day

Our first day back after the holidays is whole school Art Day. On this day, the children will be taking part in a range of activities. Therefore they need to come to school wearing clothes that they can get messy in as they will spend the day being artists!

See you on Monday!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

25.03.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week we have marked World Down Syndrome day by wearing odd socks. The children have also brought home their sunflowers today, these were planted on the 1st March. We talked about them yesterday and discussed how they were all different, with some growing lots and some not much at all. There are photos of our sunflower challenge in this week's newsletter too.

There will be no drop in this week as Tuesday and Wednesday are the parent/teacher consultation evenings. At these meetings there will be an opportunity to look at your child's books and to discuss their progress.

The deadline for the Easter activities has been extended by the PTA, it is now Monday.

Now on to our learning for the coming week, we will be:

• Sharing the story "Stuck", this is a very silly story about a little boy called Floyd and how his kite got stuck in a tree.
• Learning about 3D shapes in our Mathematics sessions.
• Listening to and discussing the story "It Wasn't Me" in our Circle Time session and thinking about how we would behave in that situation.
• Updating the name displays in our classrooms and thinking about how much they have improved. 
• Making Easter cards for our families.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

18.03.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who has helped us raise money for Comic Relief. We will let you know the total raised in next week's newsletter. The JustGiving page is still open as an additional way to donate to our Comic Relief collection should you wish to use it. It can be found here.

Thank you for continued support in our teaching and learning about Children's Rights
RRS A2: Children's Rights apply to every child everywhere, all of the time. 

Now on to our learning for next week, we will be:

• Sharing the story "The Way Back Home", a fourth story about the Boy.
• Thinking about how this week's book links to the story from last week.
• Learning about 5 more words in our Vocabulary Ninja sessions.
• Using our new found knowledge to help us write some of our own penguin facts.
• Finding out about odd and even numbers and sorting our Numicon tiles in our Mathematics sessions. 
• Sharing the book "How Long is a Whale?" and using it to help us compare different sea animals by their length.

There are 2 messages this week from other teachers in school.

Firstly from Mrs Hurley:

MATHS WORKSHOPS FOR EVERYONE. DON'T MISS THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!
We are delighted to announce that we are running a number of Maths workshops for adults. You can be a parent, grandparent, carer, aunt or uncle - you are all welcome! Are you someone who feels they need some support with maths? Perhaps your own experience in school wasn’t a good one. Well fear not, we have the solution to this!
Multiply courses are free and fully funded by Essex County Council as part of their Multiply Maths programme. Each course is 6 hours face-to-face in school. Each session will be between 1pm-3pm on the dates below:

EYFS 16th / 23rd / 30th April
KS1 18th / 25th April, 2nd May
KS2 10th / 17th / 24th May
Here is the link for you to register your interest.  https://forms.gle/BV9pj1FmAegMRLhw8

And from Miss Harvey:

Turn On The Subtitles

https://turnonthesubtitles.org/parents/ 

Turning on quality subtitles means your child will read a staggering number of words. Put them on and your child will read the equivalent number of words that are in all the Harry Potter books, all of the Lord of the Rings, all of the Chronicles of Narnia and everything Roald Dahl wrote, combined!

Research has shown that it can double the chance of your child leaving school as a proficient reader. You can turn them on for the whole family or most streaming services will now allow you to do it just for children’s profiles.

Perhaps, after all, there is a magic button…

Drop in this week will be on MONDAY.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

11.03.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

The children all looked fantastic on Thursday in their various costumes and we had a lovely time sharing stories both in our coloured Houses during the afternoon.

This coming week we will be:

• Sharing and discussing the story "How To Catch A Star". This was Oliver Jeffers' first book and also the first story about the Boy.
• Continuing the phase "Building 9 & 10" in our Mathematics sessions, counting backwards from 10, finding 1 more or 1 less than a number to 10 and finding different ways to make 10 using our 10 frames.
• Starting to look at non-fiction books to learn about penguins.
• Comparing our height to that of an Emperor Penguin, finding out if we are taller or shorter.
• Painting our own moose, thinking about the way Oliver Jeffers drew them in his book "This Moose Belongs To Me".
• Taking part in Comic Relief activities and raising money on Friday. (See below)

Finally a quick message from Mrs Yuille:

As a Gold RRS school we are proud to be raising money to help children achieve their Rights within the UK and in the wider global community.  This year we have set up a Just Giving page as an additional way to donate to our collection fund if preferred.   

Down Hall Comic Relief Just Giving Page

On the day children will be able to buy a red nose for £2, bring in some jokes or something funny to share in class and come to school in non-uniform for a donation of your choice.  Thank you for helping us to teach your children about The Rights, and to learn that small actions together can make a big difference!  We are looking forward to a fun Friday taking part in Comic Relief next week!  

RRS Article 2:  Children's Rights apply to every child, everywhere all of the time.

Drop in this week will be on THURSDAY.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

04.03.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

Many thanks for all of the children's sheets about our new project, we made a great start on it this week and are looking forward to continuing to learn more about the Boy and the Penguin next week. The children have started a beautiful display, which you can see at our next drop in.

This coming week we will be:

• Sharing and discussing the story "Up and Down", which is another story about the Boy and the Penguin.
• Discussing what it means to be a good friend in our Circle Time session and linking this to what we know about the Boy and the Penguin.
• Looking at globes and maps of the world to find the South Pole and comparing it to Rayleigh, as we ran out of time for this last week.
• Starting the phase "Building 9 & 10" in our Mathematics sessions.
• Learning 5 new Vocabulary Ninja words.
• Celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. (More information below).

World Book Day is on Thursday. To promote reading within our school community, for this day the children can bring in a favourite book from home which they can share with the other children in their class. They can also bring in a prop which serves as a clue to their favourite book/character or come dressed up as a favourite character too if they so wish. On this day all the children will also receive a £1 World Book Day voucher! The letter about World Book Day can be found here.  

Drop in this week will be on TUESDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley