No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
This week we have discussed that we are all unique and speacial because we are created by God.
Conversation starter
Each week we will give you a question that we would like you to think about and discuss together at home. This could be over dinner time as a family, at bedtime, on a walk or even in the car. However you choose to discuss this question is up to you, but the idea is that it will help to give an insight in to what we talk about in school, help children to understand more about themselves or others.
What makes you unique?
What have we been learning this week:
This week we have continued to get into a routine and delevelop relationships with the whole class. We have met our Year 6 buddies and enjoyed eating our lunch with them.
Phonics: This week we have begun our reading and writing journey, following the phonics scheme Read Write Inc. This journey begins by introducing a letter at a time; exploring words with the initial sound, how the letter looks so we can identify it and how it is formed so we can write it. This week, we introduced the letter ‘m’.
We focused on how the letter makes a soft ‘mmm’ sound rather than the ‘muh’ sound, then the children thought of as many different words as they could beginning with this sound. They also enjoyed exploring the environment to find the letter.
Reception, can you find the letter ‘m’ at home this weekend?
Understanding the World: This half term our topic is ‘All About Me’. As a class we have spoken about how we have come together as a Reception family and over the next few weeks we will celebrate the things that make us all unique. This week, we began by creating our self portraits which will be displayed in our classroom.
Our School Learning Characters: Across school, we have a number of learning characters that help us to encourage and support a positive growth mindset in the children as they enjoy their journey through school. This week in Reception we met Brave Tommy Turtle and Cooper Crab.
KIDSAFE
Across school, we use KIDSAFE which is a series of age appropriate lessons that aim help children keep themselves safe. In our first lesson, we met KS who is the KIDSAFE puppet. Through various games, he helped us to think about what we already do to keep ourselves safe and why these things are important. We spoke about wearing a seatbelt in the car, wearing a helmet when riding a bike and holding a grown ups hand when crossing the road safely. KS also introduced the word ‘trust’. We talked about trust making us feel safe for example, the children can trust that their teachers will keep them safe in school and that they can come and tell us if they have hurt themselves so that we can help them. Then we played a game to help us think about what it means to trust someone and how we can show other people that they can trust us.
We have a series of KIDSAFE lessons that we will explore over the next few weeks. Following each lesson we will share some information and a letter here on our blog. Please click the link below to read more information regarding our first KIDSAFE lesson.
Fun Friday: every Friday we will spend our afternoon with Nursery, today was our first session together.
Let’s Celebrate:
Well done to our certificate awardee: A brave ‘Tommy Turtle’ you have been brave trying new activities this week and made new friends, well done :).
Whole School Virtues - Learned and Wise: You have been wise by making great choices in Reception and you are shining your light brightly setting a good example to the rest of our class, well done :).
Henry the Dog: Our class dog Henry get’s lonely at the weekends, so every week myself, Mrs Summersall, Mrs Kroll and Mrs Ely will choose someone to take Henry home.
Well done you have had a brilliant week, you have been a super tidier and been very focused during our carpet input.
Important Information and Upcoming Events
Important Reminders:
Stay and Plays:
Each term there will be a stay and play session where you can come into school and spend time with your child, and join them with their learning. Please can you fill in this form to let me know the best days and times for you to come in.
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 Wednesday (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.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