We have had a lovely time this week, learning lots of new sounds and numbers. We have been to the woods in our wellies as well as having our photo taken by a photographer from the News (which will be published in Friday’s paper supplement)!

A massive thanks to all the parents who came to our collective worship drop in and to the open evening to look at the books- it was lovely to see you!

Miss Moncreaff

Our Year R Liturgy will be taking place on Friday 24th October at 10:15am in the hall. The children will be sending home invitations this week.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and see you all tomorrow…

Miss Rhoades

Hello everyone!

As you may know we are due to have our outdoor area completely revamped which is extremely exciting for the children (and adults too!!)

The work is due to commence this week hopefully and is hopefully going to last around 3 weeks, weather permitting! If there are any disruptions to drop off or pick up points we will let you know as soon as possible.

See you all tomorrow!

Miss Rhoades

Thank you to everyone who managed to come to our picnic this afternoon! It was such a shame we couldn’t use our outdoor area due to the building works beginning shortly, although we all had a wonderful time in the classrooms.

This week to prepare for the picnic the children wrote a shopping list of all of the sandwich fillings they wanted which we then bought for them. Today we then made their sandwiches and iced their biscuits which they enjoyed with a cup of orange squash at the picnic.

See you all tomorrow!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

This week we have had a fantastic week at school!

In Number Crunch this week we have been learning all about numbers 1-5, exploring what those numbers look like, what each number represents and where they come in the number system. In Loopy Letters this week we have been reading the story ‘we’re going on a bear hunt’ and acted out the story in the woods and went on a real bear hunt! In Letters and Sounds we have learnt the sounds ‘g,o and c’ this week.

You may also have noticed our pine trees have gone! We really enjoyed watching the trees being taken down and were so excited to explore the freshly cut logs and sawdust.

Thank you to all of the parents who came to our welcome meetings this week, it was so lovely to have so many of you there. For any parents who were unable to make the meetings due to other commitments we will be sending out a Powerpoint covering all of the information that was delivered at the meeting.

We hope you all have a restful weekend,

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

Dear parents,

Just to remind you that our welcome meetings are this Thursday at 2pm and 4pm.

See you all there!

Miss Rhoades

This week we have been saving all of our washing up liquid bottles and filling them with coloured water for the children to use. They have had so much fun writing their names using the water and even practising our new sounds ‘s,a,t,p,i,n and m’!

We hope everyone who came for our coffee afternoon today enjoyed the time to talk with other parents and ask any burning questions they had!

See you all tomorrow…

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

Dear Parents,

What a brilliant week we have had in Reception! All of the children have been so eager to learn and participate in the learning activities which has been a joy to behold.

This week we have introduced Letters and Sounds to your children, learning ‘s,a,t,p’ this week (bottle tops and cards will be sent out next week). We have also been practising our name recognition and writing, creating name labels for our classrooms. In Maths this week we have been exploring measures and even had a visit from a Giant asking us to measure his footprints! During discovery time the children have been exploring new sensory activities such as shaving foam, corn flour gloop, coloured water, rice and pasta which they have loved.

See you all on Monday!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff

p.s you will meet the rest of your class next week…how exciting!!! 🙂

Dear Parents,

We have had a wonderful first week in school! Your children have settled in beautifully and have shown real independence as the week has progressed!

This week we have been:

•  Creating self portraits, exploring the paint, chalks, crayons and pastels which we really enjoyed!
• Going on a school treasure hunt to find out all about our new school
• Creating our class rules
• Exploring our woodland nature trail on our field, foraging for blackberries which we washed and ate back in the class.
• Naming our new class goldfish ‘Octopus, Candy and Acorn’

Thank you for all of your support this week!

Miss Rhoades and Miss Moncreaff