Please remember

To put a spare set of clearly labelled clothes, shoes and socks in your

child’s bag to keep on their peg.

If your child is in Nursery, all school dinners need to be paid for. Children

are eligible for free school meals when they move into Reception.

Children are expected to wear black shoes (ones they can put on them-

selves please) to school every day unless they come in wellies and bring

shoes with them.

Reception applications for 2018 close January 15th

Friday 15th of December is Christmas Jumper day so children can wear a

special jumper. It’s also the same day as Christmas lunch for the children.

Doors will be open at 1.45pm on the last day of term, Wednesday 20th

December as school finishes at 2.00pm

Early Years Winter Glee

The children have been practising for

their performance and we would love you

to join us on Tuesday 19th December at

9.30am in the middle hall.

Please let us know if your child will not

be attending school on this day.

You will receive a reminder and some let-

ters regarding costumes for the children

in the weeks to follow.

Nursery has a soft start between

8.45-9.00am and

a soft finish between 2.55-3.10pm

The register is done at 9.00am so

please inform the office if your child

comes in after 9.00am

At 3.10pm your child will be taken to

the office for collection unless some-

one has contacted us about running

late

Early Years News December 2017

Julia Donaldson is a hugely popular and talented author of some of the world's best-loved picture books in-

cluding The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child and Stick Man.

We will be enjoying these stories over the next few weeks and many of our activities will be inspired around

these books.

In communication and language we will…

Listen to audio version of The Gruffalo and watch animated film version

Compare stories ,and talk about similarities and differences

Make stick puppets of characters to create own stories and role play

In personal, social, emotional development we will…

Explore different emotions and feelings

Talk about things that are special to us

Continue to talk about our classroom rules and how we can be kind friends

In physical development we will…

Make footprints and compare sizes

Draw our own Gruffalo

Go on a Gruffalo hunt through an obstacle course

In literacy we will…

Play rhyming games with key words from the story

Create story maps and retell the story

Use props and masks to act out the story

In maths we will…

Match the footprint to the animal and measure who has the biggest/smallest footprint

Use positional language to talk about where the animals are hiding

Experiment with the concept of floating and sinking, talk about heavy and light

In understanding of the world we will…

Learn about the changes in the environment due to change of season

Explore different habitats of woodland animals

In expressive arts and design we will…

Feel different textures in a feely bag and sensory tray filled with items linked to the story and winter

Make dens as Gruffalo caves using a variety of resources

Family Learning Make paper snowflakes using folding and cutting skills

Read stories about the change of seasons

Create your own Gruffalo and woodland animals

We have been busy in Nursery…

The children have enjoyed all things monsters over the last few weeks after reading ‘Bedtime

for Monsters’. We found monster footprints in class so we went on a monster hunt and then

the children drew their own version of the monster from the story. The children made their

own monster dens using big boxes and blankets. In the make and do area the children helped

to make a large scale monster by using boxes, tape, glue and paper and then they all helped to

paint it! On the playdough table we have been making our own little monsters and adding fea-

tures with various resources. Outside the children have been using their balance and hand eye

coordination to successfully climb across the ladders and planks we set up during PE lessons.

We have been busy in Reception…

We enjoyed reading the ‘Bedtime for Monsters’ book. We started by discovering that a monster

was loose in the school! So we went on a monster hunt and found lots of little monsters hidden

around the back playground. We learnt about the settings from the story (the places) and put

these into order. We also made our own monsters and made little homes for them out of recycled

materials! Outside, we worked together to build monster dens and chose lots of different

materials to use by ourselves. We have also learnt the story off by heart by using a story map.

We can use actions and expressions to make our retelling really exciting. In maths we’ve been

learning about addition and subtraction. We’ve been using concrete resources like cubes and

counters. We’ve even had a go at writing equations!