31.03.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

The children have worked hard this week with their writing and we have loved seeing how well they are using their Phonics. They have also been creative and we hope everyone loves their special cards on Sunday!

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. All meetings will take place in the hall.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday 1st April - Parent/Teacher consultations
Wednesday 2nd April - Parent/Teacher consultations

Thursday 3rd April - Mother's Day Cream Tea

Friday 4th April - PTA Easter Egg hunt and Wellbeing day

Friday 4th April - PTA Disco 

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

• Updating the name displays in our classrooms and thinking about how much they have improved. 
• Finishing our current units in Jigsaw and Charanga.
• Ordering numbers to help the Easter Bunny find the eggs.
• Making Easter cards and Easter decorations for our families.
• Checking we have answered ALL of our questions about Dinosaurs.
• Enjoying a Wellbeing day on Friday - the children do not need to come to school in uniform on this day.

Please note the children will be bringing home a different reading book for over the Easter holidays. We will continue with our Anima Phonics books after the Easter break.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

24.03.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week we have enjoyed the book "Dinosaur More!" and found out some facts about the dinosaurs from last week's book. The children then did some magnificent labels for their dinosaurs.

Today, the children have looked amazing in their red and pink clothes for Comic Relief. Many thanks for all of the cakes that came in for the children's cake sale. They enjoyed eating their cakes this morning! We will let you know how much has been raised next week.

As promised last week, here are some of the upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

Friday 28th March - PTA Mother's Day sale
Tuesday 1st April - Parent/Teacher consultations
Wednesday 2nd April - Parent/Teacher consultations

Thursday 3rd April - Mother's Day Cream Tea

Friday 4th April - PTA Easter Egg hunt and Wellbeing day

Friday 4th April - PTA Disco 

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

• Sharing non-fiction texts to find out facts about different dinosaurs. 
• Looking at fossils and learning about the job of a Palaeontologist.
• Learning about Mary Anning, Robert Plot and the Kraffts, all of whom have helped us understand more about dinosaurs and volcanoes.
• Writing some captions for some different fossils.
• Thinking about 3D shapes in our Mathematics sessions.

The final drop in session for this term will take place on TUESDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

17.03.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

This week we have enjoyed the book "Dinosaur Roar". The children listened carefully to try and find all of the rhyming words. They also did some fabulous writing about some of the dinosaurs from the book.

There are a number of events coming up over the next weeks, so we thought it might be useful to pop them on here. We will then update them each week.

Upcoming Events

Friday 21st March - Red Nose Day (see note below)
Friday 28th March - PTA Mother's Day sale
Tuesday 1st April - Parent/Teacher consultations
Wednesday 2nd April - Parent/Teacher consultations

Thursday 3rd April - Mother's Day Cream Tea

Friday 4th April - PTA Easter Egg hunt and Wellbeing day

Friday 4th April - PTA Disco 

Red Nose Day - Comic Relief's Big 40th Birthday Bake!

This year marks 40 years of Comic Relief. Next Friday, there will be a cake sale to raise money and children are being asked to bring in a few cakes, if possible (homemade or shop bought), to be sold during the day.

Cakes will be sold at 50p a cake, so if you would like your child to take part please bring in money for this and a box to pop them in, if they are buying more than one cake to bring home.

Below is a link to our Just Giving Page if you wish to donate money in this way, but please note that this is separate to the cake sale - children will need to bring in money if they wish to buy a cake!

Down Hall's Just Giving Page

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

• Sharing the book "Dinosaur More!". This is a non-fiction version of last week's book "Dinosaur Roar!".
• Learning what non-fiction means and using our book to find out information about the different dinosaurs.
• Labelling the different parts of a dinosaur, using our segmenting skills to help us spell the words.
• Finding all of the different ways to make 10, learning to recall these number bonds.
• Learning about pumice stone and creating our very own volcano.
• Creating our own salt dough fossils.

Drop in this week will be on THURSDAY.

We hope you have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley

10.03.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello!

The children looked amazing yesterday, in their World Book day costumes and the weather meant that the whole school was able to spend time reading on the field together. What a difference a little bit of sun can bring! 

We have also enjoyed making lots of robots this week, these are on display in the corridor, so you can always see them during a drop in session.

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

          

• Sharing the story "Dinosaur Roar!", this is another rhyming book so we will be trying to find all of the rhyming words. 
• Writing a caption to go along with one of the pictures from "Dinosaur Roar!", using describing words to match the picture. 
• Continuing with our "Building 9 and 10" block in Mathematics, working on finding 1 more and 1 less than different numbers.
• Learning our 15th Rainbow word in our Phonics sessions.
• Learning the definitions of 5 more words in our Vocabulary Ninja sessions.
• Learning a new Circle Time game, talking about what makes Trevor Triceratops happy, sad or cross.

Drop in this week will be on MONDAY.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Wakefield, Mrs O'Connor and Miss Langley