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 are in the children's Christmas folders, which have come home today. 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.

The children do not have their Reading folders - we do! Please don't worry, we want them to have a lovely break and enjoy the Christmas celebrations.

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 Monday 5th January 2026, ready to start our next learning adventures!
With love
The Early Years Team xxx

15.12.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

WOW!! We have had a busy, busy time in Early Years. 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 Fincham and Miss Goddard

08.12.25 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

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 9th December - Early years will be going to St Michael's for a Christingle service
• Thursday 11th December - Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch
• Friday 12th December - Father Christmas / PTA Christmas Shopping Day & Bazaar
• Friday 19th December - Early Years Nativity performance

Christmas Jumper Day - Thursday 11th 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.
• Visiting St Michael's church on Tuesday and taking part in a Christingle service.
• Working on our blending and segmenting of 3 phoneme words. 
• Thinking about our daily routines in our Mathematics sessions.
• Enjoying another Forest School session on Thursday. (The children can wear their jumpers with their Forest School trousers and bring their uniform to change into).
• Wearing our Christmas jumpers for Christmas Jumper day on Thursday and talking about Khadiza and enjoying Christmas Dinner together.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!

Miss Wakefield, Mrs Fincham and Miss Goddard