Class Teacher: Miss Tomlinson
Teaching Assistant:
Mr Smith-Cattell
A massive welcome to all FS2 children, parents and visitors. We hope you have all had a fabulous summer and are as excited as we are about starting this new autumn term. We are thrilled to see so many familiar faces returning to the team and we extend a very warm welcome to those parents and children joining us for the first time this September.
Please do not hesitate to ask me questions regarding your child and their education or if you require a general update on how your child is progressing. I will ensure I make time to meet or speak with you.
I love working out, HIIT is my favourite activity followed by hiking. I spend lots of time climbing mountains and exploring new places. I am so excited to learn all about your children's hobbies and interests and generally getting to know them!
Miss Tomlinson
Children in Reception have learnt that God is love and that being made by His image means being called to be loved and to love others. Children have engaged with their learning and joined in discussion. They have also taken part in a treasure hunt to develop their understanding of virtues to live by.
Children in Reception have been getting better at doubling, halving, adding and subtraction. Today the children put all their knowledge together. They used fine motor skills and applied art skills to create their own calculation critter.
Children were asked questions to deepen their understanding.
"What is double 3?" Double 3 is 6
"If double 3 is 6, what is half of 6? Half of 6 is 3
"3+3=6 what other sentence can we say for this? "Double 3"
Reception children have been using a range of resources to help them learn number bonds to 10 ready for recalling some of these facts to 10.
Roll up, Roll up, the Carnival has arrived in EYFS!
The children are so excited to start our new topic and they really enjoyed making all the resources to make our classroom fully immersive. The children are enthusiastic and full of curiosity to all the wonderful learning ahead of them.
They are looking forward to developing their strength and coordination, positional awareness and improve their core strength, stability, balance and agility.
Keep your eyes and ears open as the children may have a little surprise for you at the end of this term...
Reception children learnt that wildlife is all around them and the steps we can take to care for wild animals and their homes. As well as experiencing awe and wonder at the variety of wildlife with whom they share their world, children learnt to be respectful explorers of the outdoors. Children understood that they share their world with a variety of wild animals and can name some of the animals found in their local environment. They were extremely interested in Bees.
After having read, 'The Colour Monster' Reception discussed their feelings. New vocabulary was introduced and the children also wrote their feelings and posted them into their own Colour Monster. Together the children made a self registration area to allow us to discuss feelings daily.
Reception then explored the theme of 'Growing Together'. They were asked, 'WHAT IS GROWING TOGETHER AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?' We planted seeds and discussed what might grow from them, what they will need to grow and they predicted how long they thought they would take to grow.
Children learnt that Diwali is a five day festival and lamps are lit and everyone gathers together.
The children also learnt other ways to celebrate the festival:
Key Information
- School starts at 9.00am with the school gates opening at 8.35am (allowing extra time).
- School ends at 3.25pm
- Please ensure the office staff have your up to date contact details.
- Please ring the office if your child will be absent.
-If someone else is collecting your child, please inform the office, we will not allow your child to leave the premises if we have not been notified.
►Reading - Reading is at the heart of all our learning at Holy Family. To support this at home, please could all children ensure that they read their school reading book every night and that the planner is signed by an adult. Alongside this, it is also key that all children select their own reading for pleasure book which they will also have opportunities to read and share with others in school.
►Phonics- Phonics is a way of teaching reading where children are taught to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sound(s) they represent. The phonics programme we follow is called Read Write Inc. (RWI). In reception we are beginning to blend sounds together to create words. Your child will bring home sounds that they are learning to consolidate at home. It is really important that the children practise blending sounds together to create words so please blend, blend, blend with your children at home. Playing simple listening games can help your children understand phonics a lot more. Asking your child 'Can you get your c-oa-t?' 'Sit on the ch-air.' etc. will help them understand 'fred talk' or 'sounding out'.
►Homework - All children will be given weekly English/Phonics or Maths homework. This is to be completed and returned to school as required.
Uniform
Here at Holy Family we pride ourselves on our smart appearances. Please ensure children come to school dressed appropriately wearing full school uniform in line with school policy, including black shoes and no jewellery.