Week Ending 28/03/25
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 9:46am
Happy Friday! Easter is a time of joy, renewal and reflection, filled with delightful traditions and profound spiritual meaning. While children eagerly anticipate Easter eggs and hot cross buns, it's essential to also highlight the religious significance of this event.So, along with all of the other ‘egg-cellent’ Easter activities we will undoubtedly have planned, we want our children to foster a deeper understanding of the religious side of Easter and why it is so important to Christians. This is something we have been delving deeper in our class collective worships.
Spring Term Dates
- Wednesday 2ndApril – Dormice class assembly (9am – school hall)
- Tuesday 22nd April (Summer term) - - Trip to Crown Bank Quarry Nature Reserve.
REMINDER:
We will be holding our Class Assembly on Wednesday morning at 9am. Please wait outside at drop off and a member of staff will let you in once all the children have entered school.
Class Assembly - Three Pigs Show
Children can still come to school in their jogging bottoms/shorts and trainers as they will still have their PE lesson with Mr Elton later that morning. Please see email that was sent yesterday regarding different colour tops for the performance. If anyone has any spare childrens sunglasses we could borrow for the
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Easter Bonnet Competition
It is that lovely time of year when the first signs of spring are upon us and Easter! This year on Friday 25th April will be having an Easter hat/bonnet competition for the children in Key Stage One and EYFS. Please could you support your child in designing and making an Easter hat or bonnet. Your hat could be made from card, paper, or use a baseball cap/sunhat/woolly hat as a base. Then allow your child to decide what they would like on their hat, it could be flowers, signs of new life such as Lambs, chicks and chocolate eggs. It can be anything linked to Easter. Please send the hat in with your child on Friday 25th we look forward to seeing all the wonderful hats and bonnets! Pictures of the parade will be on Twitter and Tapestry. We will send out a reminder on the first day back.
Kinetic Letters
At parents evening, I spoke with lots of parents about the importance of fine motor skills on a child's writing journey. By enabling handwriting to become automatic, we remove that from a child's cognitive load when writing. This way they can focus on sentence construction and spelling. We do Kinetic Letters each more to give each child automaticity in their handwriting as soon as possible. You can help at home by encouraging play that strengthens little hands; playdough, tweezers, lacing, tying shoe laces, doing their own zip up, opening crisp packets/food boxes. In fact, developing independence and fine motor skills go hand in hand!
Dough Disco with Shonette is a firm favourite in the Early Years as it focuses on strengthening our fine motor skills making it easier for writing. Here is the link if you want to have a go at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spread+the+happiness+dough+disco
Phonics (Little Wandle)
Please see the downloadable attachment below to practise the sounds/words we have been learning this week. Next week is assessment week so please continue to look over all tricky words and Phase 3 sounds as you can see in the videos and tricky word mat attached.
Next week we will completing this half term's phonics assessment with your child. You will find this recorded in their reading record by the end of the week so be sure to check.
In Maths, we have been learning about more complex pattern making. We revisited looking at simple AB patterns then looked at ABB and ABC patterns and discussed what was similar and different. We read the story 'The Princess and the Wizard' which gave us lots of opportunities to copy, continue and create our own complex patterns for our friends to solve. Miss Selwyn might have got a few wrong for the children to correct! Remember to always say the pattern out loud first before identifying the unit of repeat. If your child makes any patterns at home with Lego, pasta shapes or different toys then please do upload them to Tapestry for us to see!
On Monday, we arranged a conscience alley to answer the question ‘would you like to be a pirate?’ We discussed reasons for our decisions. Some said yes because they wanted to talk like one and others said no because they would be away from home for too long!
On Tuesday, we were creeping towards the end of our story ‘The Pirates Are Coming!’ and asked the children to predict what might happen next and why. In class worship we read about the Last Supper where Jesus shared bread and wine with his friends. We pretended to share our own bread and wine (ribena) as we reflected on this part in the Easter story.
On Wednesday, we enjoyed finishing the story of ‘The Pirates are Coming’. The children were amazed to find that the pirate captain was Tom’s Mum! They laughed as they realised that the villagers were hiding to shout ‘SURPRISE!’ and not because they were scared. No one predicted that ending!
On Thursday, we had a run through of our Class Assembly with only five sleeps to go until the big day. The children can't wait to retell the story of the Three Little Pigs with you.
On Friday, we had a circle time focussing on ourselves and our bodies. The EYFS Framework highlights the importance of Personal, Social and Emotional development under the headings self-regulation, managing self and building relationships. The NSPCC have some great resources which we have delved into today including Pantosaurus. The children may come home today with the attached song in their head. We have also been learning about ways to keep ourselves safe such as road safety, keeping ourselves safe around school, rules for keeping safe at home and out and about in public.
Well done to our Star of the Week, Cole!
Our mystery reader this week was Annika's Dad. Thank you for coming to share a story with us!
Have a fantastic weekend!
Miss Selwyn
