We have had an exciting week of learning.

This week we read the story MOG and the V.E.T. The children discussed what vets do and they wrote about how Mog felt going to the vet.

In Maths this week we have been looking at telling the time. We have been practicing O’clock and half past times. The link below is a fun game that your child may wish to play on a tablet or computer at home to practice telling the time.  http://www.tvokids.com/play/clock_talk/clockTalk.swf

On Wednesday we had our second stay and play session with the new Reception children starting in September. The children were very kind and helpful to the new starters and were fantastic ambassadors for the school.

Sports day is fast approaching! Can you please ensure that your child has a clearly labelled water bottle and the correct coloured t-shirt. I do apologise that I wrote the wrong t-shirt colour for Amber team on the letters. It is in fact yellow, not orange. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused! Remember that you are welcome to have lunch with the children on the field and infants will be doing their sports day activities in the afternoon. We hope you can all make it!

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Reception team 🙂

We have had a busy week learning all about what we want to be when we grow up.

The children have had visits from the Mrs Divall who looks after all of the school dinners across Havering. She taught the children about healthy eating and having a rainbow of colours on your plate. We also had a visit from PC Boyle who told us all about being a Police officer and we got to sit in the Police van and hear the sirens!

We have done lots of writing this week about what are Mums and Dads do as a job and what jobs we would like to do when we’re older and why.

In Maths this week we have been learning all the properties of 3D shapes. The children have been on shape hunts to find 3D shapes inside and outside and have been able to list 3D shape facts!

We will be doing lots of practice leading up to sports day next week. Please can you ensure that your child has a clearly labelled water bottle. Also the fathers day messages and class photos are in this weeks Romford recorder.

Have a lovey weekend!

Reception team 🙂

Dear Parents and Children,

I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a sincere and heart felt ‘Thank You’. The gifts, flowers, cards and generosity you have shown me has deeply moved me and words cannot express my gratitude.

I have throughly enjoyed getting to know the children and parents this year and I am sorry that I will not see the end of the year through. I will particularly miss seeing the children’s smiling faces every morning.

The children have already met Miss Davis who will be the Willow 1 Teacher for the remainder of the year and I am certain she is going to love getting to know the classes as much as I have.

Thank you once again for everything and I hope the children enjoy the rest of their time in Reception.

Mrs Jones 🙂

p.s. Here is a picture of Miss Davis

This week has been yet another busy week!

It has been learning together week and parents have been coming to see their child learn in phonics, literacy and numeracy. We would like to thank all of those parents that could make it. I know the children really enjoyed showing off what they could do to you all.

In Literacy we have been learning all about mini beasts! The children have looked at different non-fiction books and information online to write all about different mini beasts. We also had zoo lab come in to visit us and Chloe showed us some fascinating mini beasts that we had the chance to hold! We got to meet Gary the Madagascan hissing cockroach, Barry the Millipede, Lola the tarantula, Speedy the snail, and a corn snake. The children enjoyed holding the animals and learning some cool facts about the creatures!

In maths this week we have been looking at adding and taking away using number lines and counting objects to help them. The children are becoming more confident at writing number sentences.

This week we were also lucky enough to have West Ham under 21’s come to visit us. The players spoke to the children in assembly about respect on and off the field. The children then did a fun workshop with the players outside, playing a range of football games.

During half term if you have the time these are some things that your child could be learning at home:

• Adding two more or two less to a number up to 20
• Handwriting practice of the sounds learnt so far and numbers formed correctly
• Getting changed independently
• Helicopter stories
• Naming properties of 2D and 3D shapes

We have had such a fantastic half term with the children and we would like to thank you so much for your continued support. We hope you have a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing you all in June!

Reception team 🙂