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 🙂

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 🙂

This week we have had yet another fun packed week!

In Literacy we have been learning about the story ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’. We designed our own magic shoes, retold the story and wrote about why the elves in the story were special. We have also been telling more helicopter stories this week. Some children have even been writing their own helicopter stories at home and in school!

In Maths this week we have been looking at doubling numbers, number bonds to 10 and adding two one digit numbers in our heads. The children have also been using our shoemaker shop to buy and sell elf shoes using money. 

In PE the children have been setting up the apparatus for gymnastics and putting it away safely. They have shown great skills by balancing, jumping, slithering, skipping and climbing.

We hope you have a lovely Bank holiday weekend.

Reception Team

🙂

This week we have been learning about the traditional tale of ‘The Gingerbread Man’. The children acted out the story, baked their own delicious gingerbread men and wrote all about them. We especially enjoyed baking, decorating and of course eating our own gingerbread men!

In maths this week we have been looking at counting one, two or three more or less than any given number. The children wrote down subtraction and addition sums on whiteboards and used number lines and objects to help them.

We have transformed one of our role play areas in to a garden centre! It is open and ready for business. The children helped to get it ready by making flowers and plants using tissue paper, pinecones and drawing.

To celebrate the 90^th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the children in Reception were learning all about who the Queen is and what she does for our country. They already knew lots of information about the Queen and the Royal family. We spent the whole morning making crowns and flags, creating birthday cards for the Queen as well as attending a special assembly all about the Queen. As you can see, the children loved celebrating this special birthday.

The children have enjoyed the independence of walking down to the classroom with an adult this week as part of their transition. We would like to thank you for your continued support.

We hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂

It has been wonderful to have the children back after the holidays. We hope you all had a brilliant holiday.

This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’. We created our own wanted poster for the mean and nasty troll and retold part of the story in our writing books. We also acted out the story using the bridge in the climbing frame garden.

In maths we have been learning how to count in 10’s. The children have been singing songs, playing games and counting different objects in groups of 10. The links below will take you to the song and the game we played.

Duck shoot: counting in 10’s game:

http://www.ictgames.com/newduckshoot10s.html

We have been really lucky to get some new toys this week. Ava-Rose very kindly brought in some of her Peppa Pig toys, which the children have really enjoyed playing with. Mrs Williams has also very kindly brought in some scooters, which the children have been using on our pretend road.

As part of our transition in to Year 1, we have had the chance to go in to the big playground this week. The children wore Hi-Vis jackets so they could be spotted easily and the reception gardens were empty most days! The children have really enjoyed playing with their older siblings or friends.

Just a quick reminder that as of Monday 18th your child will be collected from the school gate by a member of the Reception team and we will walk your child to the classroom. This is another step of transition for Year 1, so that they feel confident to walk to class independently.

You may have noticed that your child has come home with two books; a Read Write Inc book and a book band book. This will continue as they move in to Year 1. The Book band book should be of a similar level to the Read Write Inc books. If there are any sounds that your child is not be familiar with in the book band books, they may need your support with this. If you have any questions please ask.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

See you next week!

🙂

It has been lovely to have the children back and to do lot’s of great learning. The school has been far too quiet without them!

This week we have been learning about the traditional tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The children wrote what they would like to find at the top of their beanstalk and also wrote a wanted poster for the giant.

We have planted lots of vegetables in our vegetable patch including carrots, cabbage and courgette! The children enjoyed planting and sowing the seeds and have been checking everyday to see if there has been any changes. We also created a scarecrow to scare away the birds while we’re not in school!

In maths this week we have been learning all about 3D shapes. The children have been learning the names and properties for each shape and have been looking for 3D shapes in the environment.

To help raise money for sports relief we took part in the school skipathon, played dodgeball, baked some delicious raisin cookies and took part in dancing and singing to the sport relief song.

As the weather is starting to get warmer can we ask that you make sure that your child brings in a clearly labelled water bottle. Can you also ensure that your child brings in their book bag daily so that we are able to read with them.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Reception team

We have had yet another exciting and busy week!

We have been reading the story Oliver’s Vegetables this week. We started by trying different fruits and vegetables and talking about our favourites and why. The kiwi fruit was a firm favourite with most of the children.

We have also been preparing our vegetable patch outside with the help of Mrs Miles. We welcome all parent helpers, so please let us know if you would like to come and help.

From the taste testing experience, the children completed some guided writing and wrote some fantastic sentences.

In maths this week we have been focusing on weighing and started looking at data. On Monday the children created a pictogram to show Willow’s favourite fruit. The children weighed different objects, making predictions, discussing size and investigating how we can make things balanced. We also made some cookies  using the weighing scales!

Thank you for all of those who attended our last helicopter session. We hope you found the training useful and enjoyed the sessions. For those of you who couldn’t make it and would like to find out more about helicopter stories please feel free to come and speak to us so we can tell you all about it! Here are some photos of the children’s brilliant helicopter stories.

On Thursday it was World book day. The children looked fantastic as their favourite book characters and we had a lovely day dressing up. We also had a story time in the afternoon where the children shared some of their favourite stories with children from other year groups.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Reception team

This week we have had yet another busy week!

We have been doing lots of fun activities based on the story ‘Bog Baby’. We started by making our own bog babies using blue salt dough and craft materials. We then wrote about our Bog babies describing what they look like and why they are special.

This week we also went on a Bog baby hunt to the pond next to the field. The children followed the foot prints and magic dust to find the bog babies home! The children then gathered natural materials to make a home for their own bog baby. We also learnt about the different living things you may find in a pond habitat and either drew a pond scene or a bog baby on the ipads, using the app 2paint.

In maths this week we have been learning about finding one more or two more than a given number. The children created number lines, used money and other objects to help them work out these addition problems.

Our ASPIRE core values focus for this half term is independence. We had a circle time talking about what this means and the children shared their experiences of when they did something all by themselves. Every time we see the children doing something independently for the first time we add a pebble to our core values jar. We hope to have a party and dress up day as a reward at the end of term once it is full (more details to follow). If you see your child doing something independently for the first time please let us know so we can add a pebble to the jar!

This week we were also very excited to witness some chicks hatching! We got the chance to hold and stoke the chicks. They are very cute and fluffy!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend ready for another exciting week of learning!

Reception team

As you may know Willow class have been taking part in Helicopter stories. The first of the parent workshops was last week. The final workshop is on the 2nd of March and will be a practical session that will show you how the concept of helicopter stories can be used at home with you and your child.

This will be starting at 9:00am in the big hall.

We hope that you can all make it!

Reception team