Friday 14 May 2021

17.05.21 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

WOW! Another week has gone past and we now only have 2 weeks until half term!! The children have done some brilliant writing this week and Mrs Fincham and I were very proud of their great efforts. As we always say to the children great effort does lead to great progress.

As a Gold Level Rights Respecting School, we believe that children's voices should be heard. Over the next fortnight the children in school will be taking part in The Big Ask. However as the children in Pearl Class are 4-5 years old, I will be sending you an email with a link to take part in the survey as there is a parent section for children of this age. You can find out more about our RRS Gold Level award by clicking here.

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

  • Using the film "A Bug's Life" in our story time and thinking about how this film is similar to the story we shared last week.
  • Starting to think about the characters in the film and how they behave. We will then be linking this to our Circle Time session and talking about whether we would want someone to behave like Hopper did.
  • Labelling the different parts of either Flik or Hopper, using a ruler to carefully draw the lines. 
  • Sharing some non-fiction books to find out about some of the minibeasts in the film.
  • Continuing to use First Then and Now stories but this time when taking away numbers in our Mathematics sessions.
  • Recapping the last of our Phase 3 vowel digraphs in our Phonics sessions. We will be moving on to Phase 4 after half term!

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

On Thursday and Friday there is a change to the dinner menu.  
On Friday we are having a "Denim for Dementia" day where the children can wear some denim along with their uniform to raise money. 
If you wish to purchase your child's school photograph, this needs to be returned by Monday 24th May.

Further information regarding these important notices can be found in this week's newsletter - which can be found by clicking here. If you have any queries please remember you can always contact me using earlyyears@downhallprimary.com.

Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wakefield