School Trip

We had an amazing day yesterday on our trip to Meanwood Valley Farm. I hope you've had chance to look at the photographs on the classroom window.

Well done to everybody for their fabulous behaviour!

Homework

Well done to everybody who spent time this weekend making an amazing spider (or two). Have a look at the clip and see if you can spot yours!

News round up

Well done to our super achiever Matthew Wardell and to our superstars this week - Amory and Lucas.

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We are looking forward to seeing your amazing spiders (Oliver was going into Leeds when I saw him this morning to get what he needed for his spider!) which we will be able to add to our super mini beast display (see above).

Other news:

Trip to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Don't forget we are going on our trip on Wednesday! Children need to wear their school uniform and should have a waterproof coat, sun hat and if appropriate sun cream applied. They will also need a packed lunch - please ensure everything is clearly labelled - thank you.

Junk modelling

Mrs Chin has almost emptied her garage and we have still run out of boxes, pots, caps etc! Please can you send in your clean junk modelling stuff and we will transform it (just ask Daisy's mum!!) no egg cartons or toilet roll tubes thank you.

If you are not fammiliar with the Incy Wincey Spider rhyme, there is a link on the British Council website
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-incy.swf

And even more!

We have some really creative people in Reception......

Creativity in Reception

We've had another amazing week in Reception. Welcome to Imogen who has joined us this week. She has told Miss Lambert and I that she has had a great week and will definitely be coming back on Monday!

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All children have had their reading assessed this week and we have seen some super progress. In order to get our assessments completed, children may have read on a different day to usual and may not have had book bags with them. If you would like to change books or collect additional ones, you are welcome to come into school on Friday evenings and we do encourage children to change their reading books regularly themselves.

Our homework this week is focusing on number formation and matching letter sounds to names of letters. Please can you spend some time this weekend encouraging your children to complete these tasks?

Here is a video the children might like to watch about number formation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSJQm4XLO4

and another one with the alphabet on: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm

Have a lovely weekend.

Mini beast homework - what the children found out!

Here are a few examples of the super homework that was handed in on Monday. Children hunted for the mini beasts over the weekend and then wrote some sentences summarising what they discovered.

George's super shaker!

Well done to George who created this super shaker at home. He told me it has 'rice and split peas inside to shake and I covered it with shiny foil'

A minibeast habitat

In our topic sessions this week the children have been working on a collaborative project - to create an indoor mini beast habitat. Here are a few photographs of the work so far......

Next week the children will be making their own mini beasts to add to the working wall. Well done to everybody for their amazing contribution so far!

News round up

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Homework this week is to undertake a mini beast hunt in your garden, at the park or anywhere you find yourself this weekend AND write some sentences summarising the facts about the mini beasts you discovered.

Well done to Kassi and Jasmine who are our superstars this week. Well done too to everybody in Reception and Nursery for their enthusiasm and superb behaviour on our mini beast hunts this week.

Have a super weekend.

Mini beasts

We've gone 'mini beast' mad in Reception this week! The children have been really excited about all our fabulous new areas of provision (thank you to the staff who have worked so hard to pull these areas together!) As you can see they have been very busy today......

Some of the mini beast homework.............

Here are just a few of the pieces of homework handed in today. Mrs Chin was so impressed she has started to put them up on display!
Thank you for all your hard work, you should feel very proud of yourselves.

A few more examples of our fabulous mini beast homework