Hello everyone!
We have had a very busy first week back! The children were fabulous during their first swimming session and Mr Attfield was very impressed. Next week, as the children will be back in their uniform, they do not need to wear their tie on Wednesday, as this will help with the dressing after their session.
The children have been enjoying learning about caterpillars and butterflies this week. The children all made their very own caterpillar and sequenced the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". We have also started to create a new display for the hall, based on this story. A huge thank you to all of you who have helped your children complete their minibeast ideas sheet, we have loved looking through these and will continue to do so next week.
On to our learning for the coming week, we will be:
- Sharing another book by Eric Carle, this time it is all about a bad-tempered ladybird.
- Retelling the story "The Bad-Tempered Ladybird and thinking about how the ladybird behaved and whether this was the right thing to do, sharing our ideas during Circle Time.
- Watching a film showing the life cycle of a ladybird.
- Labelling the different parts of a ladybird.
- Learning about time, making different o'clock times, just like those in the story.
- Making our very own ladybirds using pebbles.
- Enjoying our Forest School session on Thursday.
- Wearing red and white to school on Thursday to mark St George's Day.
As we are now in the Summer Term, we will be starting to get the children ready for their move into Key Stage 1. With this is mind, it is time for them to start walking round to Early Years by themselves and saying goodbye to you at the gate. We have already got a number of children who do this and we are very proud of their independence. We would ask that from Monday you start to let your child walk to Early Years by themselves.
We realise, that depending on which gate you use, some children have further to walk than others. If you come in via the Brooklyn Drive or Torquay Close gates then please do start by walking part of the way with your child, allowing them to do the final bit by themselves. For those of you coming in via Downhall Park Way, it is easier as you can see them from this gate.
It is often the parents that find this the most difficult, your children are used to navigating their way from one end of school to the other on a daily basis and will be fine. We also appreciate that there are times when you might need to talk to us about something, please remember that we do check our Class Dojo on a daily basis so messages can always be sent there, shared to the adult on the main school gates or saved for home time. We also know that sometimes, for whatever reason, you will still need to come to our gate, please know that this is fine, we are just wanting to start to prepare the children.
Thank you in advance for your support with this.
This week our Drop in sessions will be on THURSDAY.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wakefield, Mrs Fincham and Miss Goddard
