‘Play is our brain's favourite way of learning’
Diane Ackerman
I can’t believe it’s the end of another half term and there is only 6 weeks left in Reception. I am so proud of all the progress we have made so far and we have an exciting half term term planned with sports day, stay and plays and our school trip.
We finnished our RE off by reflecting on our trip to church and our visit to the Parish Centre. Our learning objective was Our Parish is a Family and a Community. Jesus wants our Church to be a family. Families are all different we are all special because God made us. What joins us together is love. So it was lovey to dicuss our trip out last week.
Conversation starter
What are you proud of this week?
What have we been learning this week:
Drawing club:
This week we read The Tiger Who came to teas, ask your child if they can remember the actions and what the words mean?
The Tiger who came to tea vocabulary:
Slurping: making a loud sucking noise when you drink something.
Feast: to eat a lot of food at a large, special meal.
Cautious: taking care to avoid danger or trouble, being careful.
Suddenly: something happens quickly and unexpectedly.
Total: the sum or whole amount.
Crouch: to lower the body close to the ground by bending the legs.
Farewell: saying goodbye
Arrive: to reach a destination
Understanding the World (science): Mrs Summersall and the children have created our amazing display.
A reminder our Water Cycle vocabulary is:
Evaporation: heat makes water rise (action hands moving from the ground to the sky)
Condensation: air gets cold, it turns the water into clouds. (shivering action, arms crossed moving up and down)
Precipitation: water or snow falls out of the clouds. (hands moving down from the sky to the ground rain action)
Accumulation: Water gathers into seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, streams. (arms come together to hug yourself)
We created our own water cycle experiment too!
Forest school: It is group 2 on Wednesday 11th June and group 3 on Thursday 12th June.
The final maths activity is in your child’s bag.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: a ‘Bobby Bee and a Cooper Crab’ for your focus and enthusiasm in phonics, you have been working so hard practising your sounds and blending.
Whole School Virtues - Active and Curious:
You are active and curious with you learning you have blown me away this week with your maths. You have remembered our STEM sentences well done.
Henry the Dog: Henry is going home with this person for your independent writing in drawing club.
Important Information and Upcoming Events
Stay and play: It is our final session where you can observe a Drawing Club lesson.
The sessions are on Wednesday 25th June at 2:15-3:15 and Friday 27th June 9:15-10:15
Please can you fill in the form to let me know which date is best for you. As always any family member can attend.
Pizza Express: A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Fenwick who have organised our school trip. It will be on Friday 13th June.
The cost of the trip is £10 please can you pay for this on Parent pay.
We have loved having your support with our trips, if you or another family member are able to join us please email me.
We will be leaving school at around 9:10 we are walking to the train station and we are getting the train to Lytham. Then we will make pizzas, walk to Lowther Pavilion to eat our pizzas and play on the park, then have an ice cream before getting the bus back to school. We should be back at school at around 2.
As always thank you for your support, without you a lot of the opportunities wouldn’t be able to happen.
Sports Day:
Our sports day is on Wednesday 11th June starting at 1:30.
Gym Jam Jog: Thursday 19th June.
Show and Tell:
Thank you for the show and tells this week, they have been lovely. We have loved hearing about your trips celebrating achievemnts and seeing your wonderful crafts.
Please look below to see which day your child can share their show and tell news. We love to celebrate each child’s achievements in class. So we use show and tell as an opportunity to share things that they are proud of, or to share something that is important to them. Great show and tell examples are: sharing photos, bringing in certificates or medals, a souvenir from a trip out or something that they have made at home.
Important Reminders:
Polite reminder that we are a Nut free school. Please can you bring in healthy snacks please refer to the poster for suitable snacks, we always have fruit avalible too.
PE
Our PE days are Tuesday (outside) and Friday (inside). On these days, children can come to school in their PE uniform and will remain in this for the day. We kindly ask that velcro trainers (white, black or navy) are worn as this allows the children to be indepoendent when taking their shoes off and putting them back on. Polite reminder that for health and safety reasons, no jewellery is to be worn on PE days. We kindly ask that this is removed at home before coming into school.Art T-shirt
Please can you bring in an art T-shirt, if you haven’t already, these help us keep uniforms as clean as possible.Jumpers: please can you check that your child has brought the right jumper or PE jacket home, they can easily get mixed up when bags are being packed, there are a few missing in class, thank you.
if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at:
d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
Thank you for all of your support
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Drummond, Mrs Summersall, Mrs Krol and Miss Forster