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Year R topic this half term: Spring to Life!

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The children so enjoyed our topic last term ‘People Who Help Us.’ We were very fortunate to be visited by the police service, the fire service, a dental nurse and of course Simba and the guinea pigs! These visits really did ignite the children’s interest and promote so much discussion, role play and learning. We are grateful to those who gave their time to come and tell us about their important roles. We hope that your child enjoyed telling you about these special visits!

One of the other highlights of the term was celebrating Chinese New Year; making Chinese music, dancing like a Chinese dragon and making money envelopes, lanterns and Chinese dragons. 

This half term our topic is ‘Spring to life!’ Please click here to read this term’s newsletter which briefly outlines the topic and explains a little about what we will be focussing on across the curriculum. 

As always, you can find more information about what we have been learning each day on Tapestry in our ‘Walk and Talk’ post. 

The Year R Team 

Spring term learning in Year R: People Who Help Us

blankWe hope that you have all had a wonderful Christmas and that the children enjoyed the festivities! We are looking forward to hearing about their Christmas presents and the fun they had during the holidays. 

We will start the term with an RE focus learning about ‘Jesus as a storyteller’. We will then begin our ‘People Who Help Us’ topic next week and this will continue throughout the rest of this Half Term. We have some visits lined up from the fire service and police and we hope that the children enjoy these visits and it fills them with enthusiasm for their learning! 

Please click here to read the newsletter for this term which briefly outlines our learning.

As always, you can find more information about what we have been learning each day on Tapestry in our ‘Walk and Talk’ post. 

The Year R Team 

Year R newsletter – ‘Terrific Tales!’

 

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We hope that you all enjoyed a fun, yet restful Half Term. We are looking forward to having the children back and hearing about their adventures, including their Autumn Walks.

We enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you before Half Term to share and celebrate your child’s successes since starting school. Please can we remind you to add a comment to the Tapestry post we sent out before your parents evening meeting, titled ‘My first half term at school’. It’s lovely to hear your views on your child’s achievements so far.

The children have all done amazingly well and we hope they are recharged after the holiday ready to begin our next topic ‘Terrific Tales.’

Here is the Newsletter for this Half Term Year R newsletter Autumn 2 2022

 

As always, please do speak to us if you have a question.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year R Team.

English and Maths information – Year R

All of the children have settled so well over the past 2 weeks! We are so proud of how well they have learnt the class rules and routines and how they have settled into life in Year R. It has been wonderful to see them all making new friends and playing so nicely together during Discovery Time. We have really enjoyed getting to know your children better.

Now we have had a settling in period, we are ready to begin our Phonics teaching next week and Maths teaching the following week!

Before we begin, we have recorded two information videos which explain our approach to teaching English and Maths in Year R. We hope that you find them useful and you feel better informed about how you can support your child at home. 

English in Year R: Reading, Writing and Maths 

Maths in Year R

In addition to these two videos here another link we think will also help:

Phonic Sound pronunciation – how to correctly say the sounds

If you have any questions, please do email us at yearr@stmarksce.org.uk.

Welcome to Year R!

blankWe have all thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and your children properly over the last week and beginning to get to know you. We really appreciate you giving us such a warm welcome into your homes, so thank you from us all in Year R.

The children have all been amazing as they’ve come into school; they’ve shown such resilience and risk taking in the face of their new adventure and lots of curiosity as they’ve met new classmates and explored their new classrooms and outside learning areas. Everyone’s gone home smiling! 

As we explained on our home visits we will post a half termly newsletter during the first week of each half term. These newsletters will give you an overview of what we will be teaching your child during the half term so you can support them with their learning at home.

This term we will spend the first three weeks focussing on settling the children into school before beginning our Phonics and Maths teaching.

During this period we will be:

  • building supportive and trusting relationships with your child.
  • supporting your child to form new relationships with their classmates.
  • building up our daily routines gradually to ensure they are embedded and understood.
  • building your child’s independence in completing daily routines.
  • introducing new areas of the school gradually so all the children feel safe and secure. 
  • playing games and completing activities with the children to find out more about their individual starting points before their learning journey with us begins. 

You can click on the link below to read this term’s newsletter.

Year R newsletter Autumn 1 2022

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Mrs Baird, Mrs Hearn and Mrs Rushton