Weekly News 12th December

We have been very busy this week carefully writing in our Christmas cards! Your child should be taking their card home soon. The children have spent a long time carefully making their Christmas cards and are very proud of them.

We have also been learning about St Lucia this week and how it is celebrated, we looked at how Christmas is celebrated around the world. The children tried Scandinavian biscuits and had the chance to make candle crowns. Maybe you could ask your child what St Lucia is?

We would love to see an observation on tapestry of how you celebrate the winter holidays at home. If you upload a photograph on to tapestry, your child will get a chance to talk through their photograph with the class. This will add to the evidence for your child’s understanding of people and communities.

We have also been busy learning Christmas songs for our craft morning on Friday.

Your child should have received their homework about animals around the world. Please let a member of staff know if you do not have this.

The children have all worked really hard and have had a great first term at school, we are amazed at their progress so far- especially with their writing.

As you know we have started next steps with the children. This is working very well but we are noticing that the children who are practising their next steps at home, are racing through their next steps and therefore making more progress. Please look at your child’s next step on their board and any practise you can do at home will hugely benefit your child.

Weekly News - Visit from Father Christmas!

We have had a very exciting week as Father Christmas visited us at school! He left some footprints and a magical letter asking the children to reply and to write their Christmas lists. The children have been very busy using their phonic knowledge to write back to Father Christmas. He will be collecting the letters at the Christmas Fayre.

We also caught Father Christmas arriving at the yurt on CCTV – take a look!

The children have been very lucky as 2 of Father Christmas’ elves have visited us at school, try to spot where they are in the morning!

Every morning we have been counting down the sleeps until Christmas day and writing the number on a board- the children get very excited about this! Perhaps you could do this at home with your child to help with knowledge of numbers.

We have also been learning about why we celebrate Christmas and the nativity story and we have been learning some songs which the children will be singing to you at the end of the Christmas craft morning.

We have also been learning about Hanukah. Can your child tell you why Jewish people celebrate Hanukah?

The children have been busy decorating their Christmas cards ready to bring home to you at the end of term.

When you come to the Christmas fayre, don’t forget to take a look at our new display in the hall! The children used shapes to make pictures of themselves. From this, we found that some children are struggling with shape recognition. Perhaps you could look for shapes in the environment with your child at home.