02.12.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

Over the last 2 weeks, the children have been busy creating some lovely robins for the school's tree at the Christmas Tree Festival at Holy Trinity Church. The tree will be on display over this weekend, so if you are in Rayleigh and have the time, please do pop in and visit. The church is full of trees from lots of local schools and organisations and looks wonderful. (It would be great if you could vote for our tree if you do manage to visit too!)

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday 4th December - Early Years Christingle Service
• Friday 6th December - PTA Movie Night (letter came home last week)
• Tuesday 10th December - Early Years trip to the Panto
• Thursday 12th December - Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch
• Friday 13th December - PTA Christmas Shopping Day (letter came home this week)
• Friday 20th December - Early Years Nativity performance

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

• Talking about the start of Advent and our Advent calendar.
• Talking about different Christmas customs from around the world with our interactive Advent calendar.
• Decorating our classroom and putting up our Christmas tree in our Home Corner.
• Learning some of the songs for our Nativity.
• Continuing to learn some digraphs in our Phonics sessions.
• Learning about 4 sided shapes in our Mathematic sessions.
• Visiting St Michael's church on Wednesday and taking part in a Christingle Service.

Drop in this week will be on THURSDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

25.11.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

It was lovely to see the Snowdrop parents at the Parent/Teacher consultations this week. A new date for Buttercup parents will be sent out as soon as it has been rescheduled and we are very appreciative of your understanding regarding this. 

Upcoming Events

As we approach a busy time of year there is an increasing number of events coming up. We thought it might be helpful if we added them to the blog each week. Further information is always in the newsletter.

• Wednesday 4th December - Early Years Christingle Service
• Friday 6th December - PTA Movie Night
• Tuesday 10th December - Early years trip to the Panto
• Thursday 12th December - Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch
• Friday 13th December - PTA Christmas Shopping Day
• Friday 20th December - Early Years Nativity performance

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

• Reading the story "Each Peach Pear Plum" and trying to identify all the different nursery rhyme and story book characters.
• Identifying the rhyming words in our story and making lists of rhyming words.
• Trying to learn the rhyme in the book, working on our memory skills!
• Continuing our work about the numbers 4 and 5 in our Mathematics sessions; by finding 1 more or 1 less than them.
• Creating our own picnic scene, like the one in the story, by carefully cutting out story book characters.

This week's drop in will be on TUESDAY.

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

18.11.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone! 

Firstly, we just wanted to say how proud we were of the children on Monday when we all sat for the silence as part of our work about Remembrance. The children wore their poppies with pride. 

Secondly, thank you all for your kind donations for Children in Need today. The children looked fabulous in their bright clothes!

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

• Reading different versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and talking about the different characters.
• Discussing whether Red Riding Hood did the right thing during our Circle Time.
• Continuing to learn the Phase 3 sounds in our Phonics sessions, completing the letters of the alphabet.
• Working on Number again in our Mathematics sessions, working with numbers to 5.
• Using our sounds to write a shopping list for Red Riding Hood.
• Carefully weaving paper strips, remembering the pattern of over, under, over, under, to create a basket effect.

There will be no drop in this week due to the Parent/Teacher consultations on Tuesday and Wednesday. These meetings will take place in the hall, please come into school via the entrance at the school office. 

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

11.11.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone, 

We have had a very busy 4 days!! Today the children will be bringing home the QR code for their school photo. If your child has a sibling in school then this code will also allow you to see the sibling photos. We have been really impressed with the children's recall of their sounds this week too - it has made us SO happy! Thank you to all of you for your support at home.

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

• Reading different versions of this week's story, "The Three Little Pigs".
• Building houses using different construction materials and then testing them against a big bad wolf!
• Starting Phase 3 in our Phonics sessions.
• Learning about some 2D shapes in our Mathematics sessions and going on a shape hunt to find them in our classrooms.
• Watching the CBeebies film "Poppies" and observing the 2 minute silence on Monday.

This week we will resume our drop in sessions after school. The drop in this week will be on MONDAY.

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

04.11.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone! 

We hope you have all had a lovely half term. We are looking forward to seeing the children again tomorrow and look forward to hearing all about what they have been doing during the break.

So here are our plans for the coming week, when we will be starting our new project with the traditional tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

We will be:

• Reading different versions of the Goldilocks story.
• Creating some puppets of Goldilocks and the Bears to help us retell the story in our own words.
• Thinking about how to find 1 more and 1 less in our Mathematics sessions.
• Having a review week in our Phonics sessions, before we start on Phase 3.
• Continuing with our Start-Bee handwriting sessions, working on our patterns.
• Creating some fabulous firework pictures using different media.
• Creating some poppies for Remembrance, which we will then wear next Monday.

Drop in sessions will start again next week.

See you in the morning!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley