Reception
16th December
admin on: Reception
Well we made it to the end of a very successful term.
Thank you so much for your gifts this Christmas it is very much appreciated and not expected.
Our attendance has been really good and we have won the attendance trophy a few times.
Thank you to everyone for your support with your child at home reading and just spending time talking and playing with them.
I know we all have busy lives but 5 minutes a day really does make a difference.
Over the holiday it is important to rest and spend time with family and friends.
Do things you enjoy.
Eat food you love.
Make someone laugh or smile.
Watch a favourite film.
Do something nice for someone.
Play with your toys.
I am sure you will join me in saying thank you to Mrs Hemingway for her support everyday and Mrs Parker on a Wednesday.
Here our a few highlights this week.
snakes and ladders
Making and Elf
Writing Christmas cards
Problem solving with the UNU.
Have a fantastic Christmas holiday and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 4th December 2023!
Mrs Oddy and the Team
9th December
admin on: Reception
What a super week of concerts.
We are all so proud of the children.
This week we have been looking at the job of the postal workers and their run up to Christmas.
Nativity
Painting
Nativity
Sewing
Cosmic Yoga.
Thank you for all your support.
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
2nd December
admin on: Reception
Hello all,
Well we are here, in the final weeks before Christmas.
The Christmas Nativity 'Going on a Baby Hunt' is going really well.
Thank you for helping your child learn their lines. Over the weekend if they could practise saying it slower and louder that would be fantastic.
It's their big moment and you will be very proud of them.
Practise outside, on a walk if you go and in the garden.
This week has been a week of looking at different materials we use for building and various pieces of furniture and objects around the classroom.
We have talk about some of the properties of these materials.
Plastic
Wood
Metal
Glass
Paper/cardboard
Which materials can be recycled and why we need to recycle many materials.
Which materials are man-made and which are natural.
We used magnets to test for metals.
In maths this week we looked at shapes and spotted shapes in our environment and which shapes are used for building materials and why? We discovered the school is made from stone and bricks.
Recycling station
Shape boats
Recycling and looking and talking about different buildings
Looking and describing different shapes and their properties.
Do they roll or slide?
Are the solid or flat?
Are they good shapes for building?
Next Thursday is our Christmas play. The dress rehersel is Tuesday.
Please make sure your costume is in school and if you don't have one please ask as we have some in school you can borrow.
Thank you for all your support and we are looking forward to seeing you all next week.
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
25th November
admin on: Reception
Hello,
Please spend time each week to help your child to read.
We can see the improvement in many children who are having a go at home.
It makes a massive difference to a child's confidence and progression in these early stages of learning to read.
If you are unsure of how to help PLEASE come and see us and we are here to support you, to help your child at home.
This week have been learning about jobs of Police officers and Life boat, life guards at the coast.
We realise just because we don't live near the sea we do have life guards at Holmfirth Swimming Pool to keep us safe our our local community.
We have a Police Station near the swimming pool too.
We made our own boats using shapes cut from shapes using lots of mathematical language.
We also did an experiment outside to see what objects would float or sink.
We were composing and decomposing 5 which is part of our Early Learning Goal that we can recall all the number facts to 5 instantly.
We have use counters, 5 frames and cubes inside and outside.
Thank you also to Nurse Liz and Nurse Rebecca who came into school and talked to the the childen about their jobs in our community.
Thank you for you support,
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
18th November
admin on: Reception
This week we have been learning about Vets, Doctors and Nurses.
They all have really important jobs in our community and we have both of them in Holmfirth.
We are learning in our community there are lots of people with jobs that help us if we are sick, need glasses, need to see a dentist or there is a fire.
We also learnt about how important it is to be safe on the roads especially in winter and why reflectors work.
On Friday we celebrated children in need and talked about why we need to support other children who are less fortunate than ourselves.
I wonder what we will discover next week?
Making a first aid kit!
Playing Doctors and Nurses
Inspirational patterns
Playing at being a Vet.
Thank you for your support.
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway