Year R's Weekly Checklist

                             Monday - PE Day -  dress in PE kit today

                             Tuesday - Home reader book change

                             Wednesday   - Library day -library book change day 

                             Friday - Home reader book change 

Our theme for this term is ...

Welcome to the very first half term of school. Our children will be learning all about themselves and their families, their new class, their immediate environments, their body, feelings, rules, values and routines and their favourite nursery rhymes and fairy tales. And most importantly, what makes them special and unique. What better to way to get to know ourselves and each other!

Here a few reminders about your child's day in school:

We will keep you up to date with our learning each week on our Tapestry app so that you can join in too at home.

The school doors open at 8.35am and the registers close at 8.45am.

You can collect your little ones at 3pm.

We have a school water bottle for your child which they can access throughout the whole day. We also provide a fruit snack at around 10.15am.

If your child is having a hot dinner with us, the lunch menu is on this website. We also have a copy on the door in the morning if you want to help your child choose each day.

Homework is all about spending special time together. You will receive a 'Homework' selector each half term to give you some ideas. These will range from art to craft activities to fun times together like splashing in muddy puddles! You will also receive a half termly overview of your child's learning and some important language words to learn with your child to help them boost their talking skills for the next half term.

We also send home a school reading book which will be levelled at your child's current reading ability. If you read this with your child, please fill in our 'Golden Reading Ticket'. If your child has read three times, they can get a special treat at the end of half term!

You will receive passwords so that you can access the 'Reading Eggs and Math Seeds' app. This is a fun, educational, engaging way to support learning at home. And of course, there are certificates and rewards for this too!

Celebration Assembly  happens on a Friday and as well as celebrating birthdays there are also certificates of recognition for our Christian Values of: Love, Grace and Respect and our Foundations of Learning; Independence and Resilience (Pogo Penguin), Self-Awareness (Oreo Owl) , Collaboration and Relationships (Bingo Bee) and Thinking Skills (Cosmo Cat).

FABB- First Attention to Best Behaviour

There is also another special reward for those children who are always on their 'best behaviour'. Once a week the Head of School has a special story time in her Octopus office. One child from each class is invited to share the story and have  a little treat of juice and a biscuit alongside their special gold sticker, certificate and special letter home.

Stories for Snories!

by the Year R Team

Snuggle up at home and listen to a story from your lovely year R team. This could be perfect for bedtime but it  could also be anytime you have 5 minutes to listen to a story! Remember the more time you hear it the better you will know it. This half term's stories are all about heroes. 

What's that Nursery Rhyme?

We love learning all about rhyme in Early Years. Some familiar faces from around school have helped us by singing us their favourites. How many can you sing on your own? Practise together at home and then come in and surprise us! 

Our Homework Heroes!

Watch this space for some of our wonderful 'Homework Heroes' this year...

For weekly pictures of our learning and experiences in year R, please remember to  look at TAPESTRY. You will see what the children have been learning about and all the progress they are making.

Fun with Phonics!

This half  term we will be start to learn all about sounds in the environment. We will then the sounds which letters make - phonics. We will use these to learn to blend sounds to make real words which will start us on the exciting path to becoming readers.

Magical Maths

This half term in maths, we will learning all about our numbers to 5. We will count beyond this but we will be learning the values and properties of each of these numbers. We will learn the composition of them using adding and subtractions as well as recognising the digits and the amount by 'subitising'.

Our Learning Landscape in Pictures

This year we have been able to welcome Early Years settings from Fareham and Gosport to our wonderful learning environment. It was lovely to get such positive feedback and being able to share ideas with our other Early Years colleagues. 

Here are some of our Teachers in Year R, reading their favourite book.

Can you guess who they are?

Mrs Rendall was wondering 'What does the fox say?' ...

Watch the video to find out!

Red Tricky Word Games

Click on to this fabulous web page full of ideas for playing games with those

'red tricky words' which don't follow the rules. We call them 'sight words' because you have to learn them by just looking at them...  

https://sightwords.com/sight-words/games/

Here are the words we learn in year R...

Getting Ready to Write

 The children are practising how to hold their pencil correctly.

This is how we practise holding our pencil here at Leesland...

Try this little trick at home to help with pencil grip. Place a pom pom in your child's hand and get them to grip it with their two fingers - whilst holding their pencil!

Useful website links you can use at home...