YearR-20202022 – St Mark's CofE Primary School

What an adventure…..continued!

Mr Applegate — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:19:30 +0000

Wow, what a way to end last half term’s learning, with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations! It was so special to come together as a whole school on such a sunny day; singing, dancing and having fun together. The Year R children particularly enjoyed eating their lunch with their buddies and sharing an extra playtime on the field. Did your child mention that Her Majesty was able to drop in to see us too?!

We are continuing on our hot air balloon adventure this term, taking off from Windsor castle on Tuesday. We are looking forward to finishing our journey around the world and also look forward to our special events along the way; sports day, our trip to Bucklebury Farm Park and our mock wedding!

You can find out more about our topic and other learning for this half term in our newsletter here.

During this term we will also be preparing the children for the changes which will come in September when they move up to Year 1. Please be assured that we will approach this very carefully and ensure that all the children are prepared as best as we can. We will be arranging story swaps with the Year 1 staff soon, and they will visit the classrooms for some of these too. We will let you know via the Walk and Talk board when these have happened so you can follow it up at home that day.

The Year R team

What an adventure!

Mr Applegate — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:14:08 +0000

We trust that you have all had a good break and the children enjoyed lots of Easter fun! We certainly enjoyed our Easter themed learning just before the holidays and it was especially lovely to see our Year R children spending time with their Year 6 buddies at our Easter event. We are looking forward to arranging other opportunities to meet with our buddies during the Summer term.

For the whole of the Summer term our topic is ‘What an adventure!’ After this first week when we are focussing on RE and the concept of ‘belonging’ we will begin our adventure with an imaginary hot air balloon ride. Once we are off in our balloons we will visit the Amazon and the UK this half term before continuing on to Africa, the Great Barrier Reef and then up into outer space during the last half term.

You can find out more about our topic and other learning for this half term in our newsletter here.

We are looking forward to travelling the world with your children! As always, information about what we have learned day by day will be shared on your child’s ‘walk and talk’ board.

The Year R team

Spring to life!

Mr Applegate — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:50:27 +0000

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 and a GP and 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

People who help us

Mr Applegate — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:15:31 +0000

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

After our RE focus this week on ‘Jesus as a storyteller’ our topic for the half term is ‘People Who Help Us’. We have some visits lined up from the fire service, police and a doctor 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