YearR-20222023 – St Mark's CofE Primary School https://www.stmarksprimary.net Growing and Learning Together In God's Love Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:34:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.stmarksprimary.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-32x32.png YearR-20222023 – St Mark's CofE Primary School https://www.stmarksprimary.net 32 32 What an adventure….continued! https://www.stmarksprimary.net/2023/06/04/what-an-adventure-continued-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-an-adventure-continued-2 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:12:31 +0000 https://www.stmarksprimary.net/?p=58570

What a fantastic time we all had on Sports Day! We were all so proud of the Year R children for their team work, perseverance and resilience on their very first Sports Day. It was wonderful to end the term on such a high. Thank you for coming along to support your child and their colour teams, the atmosphere was amazing!

We are continuing on our hot air balloon adventure this term. We are currently in Tanzania in the Serengeti National Park and we are going to remain here and travel further into Kenya for one more week, learning more about life in Africa and the similarities and differences between Africa and the UK.

We are looking forward to continuing on our journey around the world over the coming weeks and also look forward to other special events along the way; our trip to Bucklebury Farm Park, a mock wedding when we are learning about ‘Special Clothes’ in RE, and a buddy picnic to finish off the term.

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

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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.

Please can we remind you to complete the form for our Bucklebury Farm trip by Friday 28th April. Your prompt response with this is much appreciated and helps us to begin organisation for the trip. Information about this trip, and a link for the form can be found in the email sent to you on  30th March.

The Year R team

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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 

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We 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 

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