16.09.24 - This coming week in Early Years

WOW! What a busy week! The children are probably very tired today, as are we, but we are so proud of how they have coped during their first full week! 😊 It was also lovely to see so many of you at our first drop in session too, we hope you enjoyed having a look around the classes and seeing the children's lovely work.

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

• Sharing some more stories together and talking about what happens in them, including the story "Titch".
• Thinking about the members of Titch's family and talking about our own families.
• Learning about a famous family, our Royal Family, finding out about King Charles and his family.
• Learning about some more of the characters from Anima Phonics.
• Playing some more games with our namecards.
• Continuing to sing our "How Many Days" song and finding out what happens when we get to 10 days.
• Singing number rhymes, including the silly one about the monkeys and the crocodile!

Our drop-in will take place on THURSDAY.

A reminder of a date for your diaries - we will be holding our Phonics Workshop on Friday 27th September at 2.30pm. Please note this date was on the list of dates shared on our website, but the time had not been given.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

09.09.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a lovely first 2 days in Early Years, getting to know all of the children and having fun together. The children have also enjoyed their first assembly and PE session today.

It was lovely to meet so many of you earlier this week for our parent/teacher meetings, if you did not manage to come to one of these, then please do ask and we can always see you one day after school. Thank you for all of the waterproofs, wellies and completed packs that have already come in. Please feel free to send any outstanding ones in next week.

We are excited for our first full week with the children, so on to our learning for this coming week, we will be:

• Sharing the story "Starting School" and thinking about all the things that we have done in our new classes.
• Finding out about different areas around school - exploring the ladybird garden, field and adventure playground.
• Drawing pictures of ourselves for our classroom display.
• Talking about how we can work together to make our classes a happy place to work and play. (RRS Article 31)
• Taking class photos for the Echo New Starters supplement. If you do not want your child in this photograph please let us know.
• Joining in with the Roald Dahl day on Friday.
• Going to Celebration Assembly on Friday to find out who will be our first pupils of the week.

We will be having our first drop in session on FRIDAY.

Please remember we are only ever a message away, please use Class Dojo to send us any queries or messages.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend, don't forget it is the PTA Fete from 1pm until 5pm tomorrow! 

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

Welcome to our Early Years Blog

Welcome to our Early Years Blog, we hope you will find it helpful as your child starts their life at Down Hall Primary School.

We are looking forward to meeting you all this week for our parent/teacher meetings. Please contact the school office if you have not made an appointment and they will be able to help, or alternatively email us using earlyyears@downhallprimary.com. 

See you soon!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley