Our Class Teacher is Mr Wilkes and our LSP is Mr Ali
Important Information
Uniform
The children in Elephant Class look so smart in their school uniform!
We know how expensive they can be, so we kindly ask you to label your child's uniform to eliminate the risk of any items being lost.
Children can also bring in a named water bottle for use throughout the day.
P.E
Children in Reception have P.E. every Friday.
Please bring the appropriate P.E kit into school in their school P.E. bag. This will stay in school and be sent home half termly to be washed. The children should wear a plain white/blue t-shirt, black jogging bottoms or leggings or black shorts in appropriate weather and black P.E pumps or plain black trainers.
Homework
Children will be sent home with a writing book and name card to practise forming their names correctly. These do not need to be handed in, your child can keep them at home or in their book bags.
We will also send letter cards for your child to practise saying the corresponding phoneme (letter sound). Please encourage your child to practise saying these phonemes as often as possible!
Homework Menu
In addition to this, a homework menu will be sent out each half term with a variety of learning activities for your child to choose from. The activities aim to compliment and consolidate learning that has taken place across the half term.
To showcase this, we would love for you as parents/carers to send us images or videos of the children's learning. The 'EvidenceMe' app on your mobile phone is the place for this. Simply take a photo or video and upload this to the app with a comment about your child's learning.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask the Reception staff.
Thank you for your support with this.
Reading at Home:
Your child will be sent home with a book and reading record. Children will begin with picture books and progress towards books with words, which match their phonics teaching and learning. Please share these books with your children at home as often as you can. You can comment on the book and ask your children questions about what is happening or what might happen next. Please record any comments in your child's reading record.
Remember! The more your child reads at home, the closer they will be to achieving their bronze, silver or gold reading awards and will be displayed on our trophy wall in class!
Bronze - 45 reads (45 comments in your child's reading record)
Silver - 90 reads (45 additional comments in your child's reading record)
Gold - 135 reads (45 additional comments in your child's reading record)
Remember! You can also achieve more read to succeed points when you read the books allocated to you on Bug Club!
Reading in School
We love to read together in Elephant Class and have lots of opportunities to read and share stories throughout the day.
We have a voting station in our classroom, where children are encouraged to vote for the book they would like to share at the end of the day. The children enjoy taking part in this and are getting much better at voting fairly!
Termly Topics
Summer 1 Topic is `Nurturing Nature'
During this half term we will be planting our own beans, watching them grow and identifying the changes.
We will learn stories and write about them such as the "Enormous Turnip"
Our Big Questions is.... Can plants grow in the dark?
In Summer 2 our topic is 'Earth Explorers', where we will be learning all about the world around us. Investigating materials and the differences between them
Our Big Question is.....What do we notice happening around us?