Happy Christmas!

 

Hello everyone, 

We hope you all enjoyed our Nativity performance this morning, we are SO, SO proud of the children and how hard they have worked to put it all together. 

We also wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of you for your support this term and for the lovely Christmas cards and gifts we have received. You have been very kind and we are very appreciative.  

After Christmas we will start our new project "Lost and Found". There is a project letter which will give you a little more information and there is also a sheet for the children to complete, to give us their ideas for this project. These were sent home yesterday and can be found in your child's folder. We would be very grateful if you would complete this with your child as we use the children's ideas to inform our future planning. The letters have also been added to the Early Years part of the website, under the "Our Projects" tab.

We have also sent home our 8 Rainbow Words. These are for using at home, the children have been introduced to all of these words this term and they are simply there as a reminder for them. As they are Rainbow Words, we do not expect the children to use their sounds to read them, instead to recall them from memory.

The children also have a reading book - this is one that they haven't read in class, but should be able to use their sounds to read.

Finally, we would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year! We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 7th January 2025, ready to start our next learning adventures!
With love
The Early Years Team xxx

16.12.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

WOW!! We have had a busy, busy time in Early Years. We had a fantabulous time at the Panto on Tuesday - we won't mention the journey home though! We've also had Mrs Morgan in playing some of her instruments and playing some Christmas carols. The children looked fantastic in their Christmas Jumpers and we all enjoyed the Christmas lunch. Finally, we have had an amazing day today, with a very special visitor in school along with his reindeer, followed by our Christmas shopping afternoon! We definitely need the weekend to recover before our last week of the term!

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

• Watching the Key Stage 1 children perform their Christmas production on Monday.
• Finishing our Christmas cards and calendars ready to take them home to our families on Friday.
• Playing the different games on Phonics Play.
• Creating our own Fairy Light patterns and completing some Christmas counting activities in our Mathematics sessions.
• Performing our Nativity to the rest of the school on Thursday.
• Performing our Nativity to our families on Friday.

For the performance on Friday, please make your way round to the front of the school as we will be unable open all the gates. You will be able to enter the hall via the double doors in the car park. The PTA will be offering teas and coffees and there will also be a collection for the school charity at the end of the performance - so please bring along some pennies!

As Friday is the last day of term, it will also be a wellbeing day, so the children can come to school in comfy clothes - they will still be having PE and will also need to pop on their nativity costume, so please consider this when the children are picking their outfits!

Don't forget that school is also finishing at 2pm on Friday.

We are looking forward to sharing our Nativity with you all! Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

09.12.24 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

We have had a lovely week! We were SO proud of all of the children during our visit to St Michael's for our Christingle Service.

The children have now picked their parts for our Nativity and we will be working hard on that next week. The costumes are all sorted and from next week some of the children will be bringing home some words to learn and we would be very grateful if you could support them with this.

Upcoming Events

• 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

Christmas Jumper Day - Thursday 12th December

On this day, the children can wear their fabulous festive jumpers and make a £1 donation which goes to our continued sponsorship of Khadiza. The charity Action Aid use this money to ensure that Khadiza and the other children in her community enjoy their right to an education, just like all of us at Down Hall! (Articles 28 & 29)

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

• Practising our Nativity, singing the songs and learning our words.
• Starting to make our own Christmas cards and calendars for our families.
• Updating our name display in the classrooms to show how our writing is improving.
• Working on our blending and segmenting of 3 phoneme words. 
• Wearing our Christmas jumpers for Christmas Jumper day on Thursday and talking about Khadiza and enjoying Christmas Dinner together.

Our last drop in for this year will be on THURSDAY.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley