St Martin's Reception Blog  

Dear Parents / Carers,

This week is EPIC Week! During this week the children will be trying lots of different activities every afternoon. These include climbing on a bouncy castle, making stick people, programming robots, craft and cooking. Reception will be joining Year One teachers and children and rotating throughout the week. Children need to wear PE kit to school all week, NO Uniform please.  This does not need to be school PE kit, just comfy clothes and trainers. Please ensure your children have a hat and a water bottle.

Swimming will be as normal.

We will also be recapping some of our most recent sounds, ‘oa’, ‘ur’, ‘or’, ‘ay’. In Numeracy we will be looking at place value.

Thank you for all your support,

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents / Carers,

A short week this week means no new phonic sounds. We will be talking lots about Liberation Day and writing about our extended weekend. We hope you all have fun.

We will be having PE on Thursday so remember to pack shorts (we still hope for sunny weather!) a water bottle and a hat.

We have three confirmed cases of Scarlet Fever in reception at the moment. Please look out for temperature, sore throat and a rash on the body.  Antibiotics are required so please pop to the doctors if you have any concerns.

Happy Liberation Day long weekend!

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents / Carers,

This week we will be learning the sounds ‘ay’ ‘May I play’, ‘or’ ‘Shut the door’. We will be looking at the Three Billy Goats Gruff story and describing the characters. On Tuesday we have a visiting author ‘Ann Bryant’ who will be leading a story telling session with the children.

During maths we will be continuing to look at telling the time (O’clock and half past). We will also be writing addition number sentences and using shopping as a stimulus.

Please remember PE and swimming kits.

Many thanks

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents/Carers

This week in Phonics we will be learning 3 new sounds: th, ‘The princess in the tower is rescued by the horse.  She says thank you’ , sh ‘sh said the horse to the hissing snake’ and ch ‘The caterpillar’s hairs make the horse sneeze’. We will also be continuing to apply our high frequency words within sentences. 

In Numeracy we will be learning to use money and begin to pay for things in our class shops and outdoor mud kitchen. We will be focusing on 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p, encourage your child to help you count out your coins when you go to the shop! We will also be working on missing number sentences working in our teams with some very big numbers!

In music we have been learning all about pitch, beat and how to be a composer so this week we will be putting these skills altogether. In teams we will compose a musical score and then play it to our class!

Many thanks

Reception Teachers

 

Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome back, we hope you had a very restful and enjoyable half term!

This week we will be continuing to apply our phonics knowledge by reading and writing CVC words as well as being very speedy high frequency word writers. In our Number we will be writing number sentences and jumping backwards on the number line to solve subtraction questions, in Shape, space and measure we will be learning the names and properties of 3D shapes.

We are also very excited to have 3 Police Officers and surprise friends visiting us this week. They will be telling us all about what it is like to work for the police and showing us their vehicles. This is taking place on Thursday afternoon so there will be no PE this week.

As we approach the Summer Term we want to say a big well done to all the children who are coming in on their own in the morning and doing all of their jobs!

Many thanks

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents/Carers

This week it is Book Week! We will be reading some of our favourite books and talking about what characters we would like to be. On Friday it is non uniform as the children are invited to come in dressed up as their favourite character from a book. We are also very lucky to be having a visit from Bernie who works with the Fire Service, he will be popping in on Monday morning to teach the children about fire safety.

In Phonics we will be learning ‘zz’- Bees buzz about pizza, ‘qu’- round her head, up past her ear-ring, down her hair and flick. In Shape, space and measure we will be continuing to measure and remembering to call them centimeters! In Number we will be subtracting using numicon and cubes, writing our own number sentences and finding the answer.

Many Thanks

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents/Carers

We have a number of different visitors coming in over the course of this half term to teach the children all about the different jobs people do to help us. This week we have Lindsay from the vets and Ben Henry the waste prevention and recycling officer coming into school to work with each class. We hope to visit the vets one afternoon soon, if you are able to help us walk to vets for pets please let your class teacher know.

During phonics we will be focusing on blending and segmenting words i.e. saying ‘c-a-t’ and hearing the word cat or saying cat and listening for the sounds in the word. In number we will be playing shape bingo and looking for 2D shapes in our environment, we will then stay playing bingo but with the focus on one less.

The Schools Dentist Service will be coming in on Friday this week, if you have not yet returned your form please make sure to send it in before then otherwise your child will not be seen. Also we are still waiting on a number of focus child forms to be returned to school, please return these or speak to your class teacher.

Many thanks

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents / Carers,

 

It was lovely to see the children looking so refreshed last week after the Christmas break. Lots of the children are now able to come in by themselves and independently sort out their belongings which is great.

We are back with a bang this week learning four new sounds. ‘L’, down the long leg, ‘ff’, huff and puff, ‘ll’, kick a ball at a wall and ‘ss’ Snakes like to hiss and kiss. The final sound clusters are new to St Martins now we are trialing the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics scheme so won’t be on your sound mats.

We will be revisiting addition by learning a new game using ‘The Three Little Pigs’ story as a starting point and learning to write simple number sentences.

We will also be learning how to use salt dough and pitched instruments including bells, a steel drum and boomwhackers!

For this term we will only have PE on a Thursday. Please send your children with appropriate winter kit including a hoodie and joggers.

 

Many thanks

 

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents / Carers,

What a busy week! We have had so much fun. Thank you all for your donations of party food. The children had a great time but are very tired and looking forward to a lovely Christmas break.

On Monday the children have a normal day and must remember their book bags so we can send home an extra book for the holidays. We have very limited stocks of books at the moment and are waiting for new ones to arrive in January. Please check if you have any at home that can be returned as they are an expensive resource.

On Tuesday the children finish school at 1pm. Please send a little snack for break time and no lunch. The children can also come to school in a Christmas jumper / mufti for a 50p donation to LEPRA.

We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas holiday and look forward to seeing you in the new year.

Reception Teachers

Dear Parents /  Carers,

What a busy week we have this week! Time for an early night…. not just the children!

On Monday we will be performing our Christmas Concert to you in the hall at 2pm. Please try to limit numbers to two people per family. You can collect your children straight from the classrooms after the show.

Thursday is party day. Please send your child to school wearing party clothes (sensible shoes) and the following food (no lunch box required)

Mrs Hynes’ Class – sandwiches  (x4 pieces of bread) tuna, Marmite, cheese, ham, jam (no peanut butter or Nutella)

Miss Rooney’s Class – Fruit and savoury snacks, cucumber, tomatoes, grapes, carrot sticks, sausages, sausage rolls

Miss Baker’s Class – small cakes and biscuits

The last day of term is Tuesday 19th of December. We will finish school at 1pm. Please do not send lunch on this day, just a snack. The children are invited to wear Christmas jumpers instead of a school jumper for a donation of 50p to the LEPRA charity.

In the Spring term Mrs Hynes and Mrs Lee will be running a workshop on Friday afternoons for four weeks. If you are interested in this please see your class teacher for more information. Please see the following link 2018 poster-wyaqjv

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Reception Teachers