Hi all

We are currently unable to approve your submissions to our 2Simple Evidence Me assessment system.  The app has a fault – we are looking into this.

Thanks for your patience,

Reception Team

This morning, Willow 1 & 2  visited Elm Park Library.

Kathy Scourfield is our link librarian who runs the sessions for children at Elm Park School.  The children walked beautifully and safely and had a lovely time listening to stories and looking through the books.

Well done Willows!

Hi all

Thank you to each and every one of you who took the time to come to our Read Write Inc Phonics Workshop.  It was really heartwarming to lead the sessions with such enthusiastic parents.

Here are the links to the phonics sounds videos as taught by the fabulous Mr Chris Thorne aka Mr Phonics/Mr Thorne Does Phonics.

https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris

Subscribe to his channel to see all the sounds your child will be taught in Reception and Year 1/2.

Below is a video produced to tell you more about the Read Write Inc scheme.

An outcome of the workshops was that parents would like more support with the pre cursive handwriting.  Therefore each child will receive a print out with an explanation note stapled to it during the week of 11.11.2019.  This is yours to keep for your reference.

We are more than happy to post tutorials of how to form each letter in the cursive style if you feel that this is something you would benefit from. Please let me know.

We also discussed further workshops that we are keen to put on at your request.  Most parents said they would benefit from early maths and reading workshops.  Stay tuned for upcoming dates.

Many thanks again,

Mrs Toms

Our first new sound is ‘m’.

We can write this easily by saying ‘Maisie, mountain, mountain’ as we write the letter.

Our second new sound is ‘a’.

We can write this easily by saying ‘Around the apple, down the leaf’ as we write the letter.

Our third new sound is ‘s’.

We can write this easily by saying ‘Slither down the snake’ as we write the letter.

Our fourth new sound is ‘d’.

We can write this easily by saying ‘Around the dinosaur’s bottom, up his tall neck and down to his feet’ as we write the letter.

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Today we said “Congratulations” to two of our amazing readers.  They worked really hard over the summer holidays to read as many books as they could and spoke to the librarians and volunteers about what they had read.  They each received a medal and a certificate.

The reading challenges take place in Havering libraries (and libraries across the country) every summer.  Look our for publications on how your child can be involved in the next summer challenge.

Well done!

Mrs Toms xx

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Don’t forget our RWI workshop THIS week! Wednesday 6th November 2019 at 8:45 in the large hall OR Thursday 7th November 2019 at 5pm in Willow Class.

We hope to see many of you there.

Mrs Toms xxx

Rosie has been working very hard at home and has written (with help from her mummy!) an amazing story all about children who enter the TV and end up on The Great British Bake Off and Bo Peep who comes to life!

Rosie told the story to her mummy who kindly wrote it down word for word.  Rosie then illustrated the story with pictures of secret doors and delicious cakes.

The paper was beautifully placed inside a pink, glittery card cover and tied off with string.

Mrs Toms enjoyed reading it to the children and Rosie was very excited too!

THEN…. Rosie’s mummy sent Mrs Toms a photograph of even MORE work that Rosie has been doing.  Take a look at the picture below!

Well done Rosie!

If you have any great stories to tell, ask your parents and carers to help you write them down and send them in.  We love to read them!

Mrs Toms xxx

Don’t forget to download the 2Simple Evidence Me app and log in with your credentials! If you have any difficulty logging in, please contact Mrs Sale.

Once you’re up and running with the app, simply snap a photo or video of any incredible learning that has happened at home and write a little note to say what happened.

For example:

“Jessie counted the stairs from 1-12 as she walked up them”.

“Daisy learned how to put her coat on by herself and fastened the buttons”.

“Harry wrote ‘dad’ by himself using his sounds”

Evidence comes from everywhere in the early years!

If we share something with you, please write a parent note to say how pleased/impressed you are with your child!

Many thanks

Mrs Toms

Hi all,

We kick-started our first day back at school by learning all about Diwali!

We read ‘Dipal’s Diwali’ and discovered how much preparation some families make for Diwali, including cleaning the house, giving away unwanted toys and going shopping for supplies.

We looked at some beautiful clothes from India and even got to try some of them on! We watched some traditional Indian dances and tried to recreate some of the movements.  The children bravely stood on the stage in the garden and twirled and stomped to the beat in their sparkly and special clothes.  The speaker was on in the garden and we hope everyone heard our happy voices as we laughed and giggled while dancing.

We then found out more about beautiful Rangoli patterns and how the temples are decorated with pretty, bright colours.  The children then drew their own rangoli patterns onto the garden floor with colourful chalks.  Lots of children really took their time to create their patterns.  One child worked especially hard to draw an intricate rangoli pattern on the interactive whiteboard screen using the electronic pen.

Later this week, we will be making coconut burfi sweets and decorating our hands with henna.  If you have not spoken to a member of staff to grant or deny permission for your child to have mehndi patterns on their hands, please do so before Wednesday.  We will also be making clay diva lamps and finding out more about the story of Rama and Sita (one of Mrs Toms’ favourite stories ever!).

Keep up the good work wonderful Receptions!

This video was shown to the parents of our prospective new joiners for September 2020.  We emphasised the fact that this video was taken just 10 days into our new school year and how it demonstrated how well your children have settled and taken to life in Reception.  It made lots of parents smile and see how wonderful our school is.  We hope you enjoy it too!