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What a wonderful time we all had learning about ‘People Who Help Us’ last half term! The children were so engaged in this topic and motivated to learn more about each job role; the uniforms these people wear, the equipment they use and the vehicles they drive. Discovery Time was a busy hive of activity every day which was fantastic to see! 

Thank you for helping your children with their reading challenge last half term. The children are enjoying it so much that we are continuing it this half term and new cards will come home on Tuesday 8th June.

We hope you have enjoyed the sunshine during the Half Term break and we look forward to welcoming the children back and starting our next topic ‘Stomp, nibble, crawl, exploring animals great and small’ after Half Term. 

Click here to read our latest Year R Newsletter. 

Thank you, The Year R Team.

Year R have had a great week back after the Easter holiday! The weather has been glorious and it’s been so wonderful to see so many children taking advantage of this to spend lots of time outside in Discovery Time. They have also shown so much curiosity and enthusiasm for our RE topic this week as we’ve learned about the Jewish faith and ‘Shabbat.’ 

Next week we will be starting our ‘People Who Help Us’ topic which will take us through to Half Term. We are really looking forward to sharing this topic with your children and hope they enjoy it!

Please find below our Newsletter for this half term which includes an overview of what we will be covering, plus some key messages. 

Year R newsletter Summer 1 2021

We hope that you all enjoyed a fun, yet restful Half Term. The children came back very well and were all very excited to see each other and share their adventures with us, including their Autumn Walks! 

We enjoyed the opportunity to meet virtually with some of you before the Half Term holiday to share and celebrate your child’s successes since starting school, and are looking forward to chatting with the rest of you this week and next week.

After we have met with you please can we remind you to add a comment to the Tapestry post we sent out before your meeting? This was the post containing photos of your child’s work, and their responses to our questions. If you have your meeting next Wednesday 11th November we will send this out next week. 

Here is the Newsletter for this Half term: Year R newsletter Autumn 2 2020

As always, please do speak to us in person or send us an email if you have a question.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year R Team.

At St Mark’s we are keen to promote strong links between home and school and to also recognise children’s achievements in both settings.

We would really like Tapestry to be a collaborative effort between staff at school and parents and carers at home. It’s been lovely to read your comments to our observations sent home so far. Please continue to share your thoughts!

In addition it would be great to begin to see observations which you have made at home. You can upload your own observations and then your child can share their home learning with the whole class.

These observations can either be WOW moments, or just updates of home learning, which we also love to see! It is really useful to know if children are practising new skills, phonic sounds, Maths concepts or demonstrating their understanding of a topic or theme at home. 

A WOW moment would be something that you feel is a particular achievement or a ‘first’ e.g.

• Riding their bike without stabilisers for the first time.

• Completing some independent writing; hearing and recording sounds in the words.

• Picking up a book and attempting to sound out a word for the first time.

• Being brave and trying something new for the first time 

Instructions for how to write and send an observation can be found in these simple user guides:

Click here for Android guide  

Click here for iOS guide

We look forward to finding out what the children are achieving at home.

Year R Team