Spring 2

Welcome back to Reception!

We hope that you have had a lovely break and are all refreshed ready for the new half term.

This half term our theme is fantasy and imagination, and we are going to be reading 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. This question will form the basis of our learning.  We will celebrating Shrove Tuesday, having a Mother's Day Workshop and a visit to the St.Thomas' church.

We will be enjoying a full morning each week of Forest School too! Where we are going to go on lots of adventures, using a range of materials to build and learn all about the world around us.

Don’t forget to keep checking our classroom doors for our learning over the week and visiting our class page too where all of our learning, diary dates and information will be posted.

                                 Dates for Spring 

19th March - trip to the church @1pm.....We'd love for you to come with us!

1st April - Whole school Easter service

2nd April - Easter Fayre

3rd April - Wear blue for Autism

Autumn 1- Reception.

Hello everyone!  A very warm welcome back after the summer holidays. I hope that you have all had a lovely rest and everyone is excited to be back to school.

My name is Miss Little and it is a pleasure to be your child’s reception teacher this year and I am very much looking forward to getting to know you all in my first year at Catchgate Primary School. 

Theme

This term our topic is; “Who Would You Invite”. We will be sharing the books; “Superworm” and “The Enormous Turnip”. These texts will be the focus of our literacy discussion, carpet dialogue and exploring different characters and authors, thinking about which characters are our favourite and who we would choose to invite to school. We will also be looking closely at making our own choices, being independent and thinking about who is important to us and why. I would also love to see the children celebrating their own achievements and understanding their own talents and skills.

We have lots of exciting things happening this half term- all of which will be displayed on our notice board- don’t forget to check it weekly for key dates and finding out all about what we have been up to during the week. I am sure we will have a fantastic year!

Autumn 2

Welcome back to reception after a lovely well deserved half term break. I hope that you all had a lovely time and enjoyed spending time with your family and friends. 

We have a busy and exciting half term ahead of us in the build up to Christmas and I am sure we will have another fantastic half term. Thank you for your continued support! 

Theme 

This half term we are looking at the theme, 'What is the Greatest Gift', as we prepare for Christmas and the upcoming celebrations. 

Our texts this half term are Handa's Surprise and Stinky Sprouts. We will be creating and learning our own story maps based on these texts, exploring language and thinking about answering higher level questions and creating our own questions. The children are becoming fantastic at learning these story maps as many of us seen in our wonderful Harvest Festival. The children are retaining the stories so well and are beginning to build a knowledge of characters, settings and the structures of stories. 

This half term we are also going to be encouraging children's creativity as we create and think about the imaginative choices that we have to make the best pieces of art and craft that we have. In addition to this we will be beginning to have many many practises for our musical Nativity!! This is a great opportunity for the children to develop their confidence and really show their performance and musical skills. It will definitely not be one to miss! 

Dates for your diary! 

As you will all know, Christmas is a hectic time of year, so here is a list of important dates for your diary in this half term, so that you don't miss anything. I have also attached a newsletter below that has different information on for you. 

November

26.11.19 - Reception Christmas Workshop - 2:15pm 

December

9.12.19- Santa visit at Beamish Museum- more information to follow 

11.12.19 - Christmas Dinner Day 

13.12.19 Christmas Jumper Day 

16.12.19- Party day- children to come dressed in their party clothes 

18.12.19 Christmas Fayre in school hall 8:40am

19.12.19- Reception Christmas performance 2:15pm

20.12.19- Last day of term.

               Christmas dress up day and Sing a long around the Christmas Tree 1:15pm 

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