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Class News Autumn Term 2024

All current news and activities are now on Tapestry. 

13.9.24

Dear Parents/ Carers,

Welcome to Owls and Robins class email. We are delighted to welcome you all to the Reception class.

Firstly, we would like to ‘Thank you’ for allowing us to visit you at your home and spend a little time together prior to the start of school. We are so incredibly proud of all the children for settling in so well!

We have all been learning the class and school rules and are doing so well to remember them in such a short period of time. Many friendships have already been established which has been wonderful to see. A truly wonderful start to the year!

This week we have begun our new theme of learning – ‘All about me!’ We thoroughly enjoyed talking about what ‘makes me, me’, finding out what colour eyes, hair and skin we have, creating some amazing look alike pictures and self-portraits! We have some budding artists in our midst!

We really enjoyed our first PE lessons this week. We listened carefully to the rules and thoroughly enjoyed playing games in the hall.

To aid the children when changing for PE we suggest that the children wear a polo shirt rather than a buttoned shirt and please can we ask that children try their best to put their socks and shoes on independently at home too!

Earrings: please can earrings either be taken out on PE days or taped over with micro-pore tape. Please ensure this is done prior to entering school.

If your child has long hair, please can this be tied back on PE days. Thank you for your support.

 Messages:

  • Water bottles - Please ensure that they are in school each day.      

  • Homework will be set on a Friday and is to be completed by the following Wednesday. This will be set on Tapestry for the time being and will begin on Friday 20th September. 

  • Packed lunchboxes – please do not overfill your child’s lunchbox with food as it can be overwhelming for them. Just a reminder that we are a nut free school. Please do not give your child any food containing nuts. Thank you.

  • Children will be choosing a library book on a Wednesday. Please ensure that the library books are in your child’s book bags in preparation for changing them on a weekly basis.

  • If you haven’t already done so, please send in a family photo. Your child will be talking about them next week. This can be emailed into office@larkrise.com or sent in your child’s bookbag.

  • Tapestry - if your child attended Lark Rise Nursery or used Tapestry at their previous setting, their observations, comments and photos have been transferred to the Reception class and we will continue to use it. We will download the lovely learning at the beginning of the next academic year (2024-2025, when the children are in Year 1) for you to be able to keep.

Thank you so much for your amazing support so far. We look forward to continuing our journeys together.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. We will see you on Monday.

Best Wishes

Miss Hazell, Mrs Skelton, Mrs Rumbelow, Miss Branscombe, Mrs Ofoma, Mrs Sworka and Mrs Prew x

 27.9.2024

Dear Parents/ Carers,

Welcome to our class email. We have had an amazing few weeks, getting to know each other, playing together, following classroom rules and enjoying our learning tasks.

Last week we talked about families, which people live in our houses and who our extended family is. The children happily talked about all the people and some of the pets in their family and drew super pictures to show this. We have been working on holding the pencil correctly and that a person has a head, body, arms and legs. A body is a difficult thing to draw and we continue to think about the shapes we might need.

We enjoy looking at our family photos that are in the role play area and encourage you to send one in if you haven’t already done so.

This week we have started to learn about houses and homes. The excitement in all of the children to see their house photo on the screen was so lovely to witness. They shared the number of the house they live at, their address if they were able to recall it and their door colour. With this information we were able to complete a bar chart that showed the most popular colour of door. We bet you can’t guess which one it is!

We have talked about the different type of home that people may live in including: detached, semi-detached, flat, bungalow and even looked at types of homes in different countries. When you are out and about on a walk, maybe you could look out for the different types of home too!

 Messages:

  • We were so excited to win ‘Attendopoly’ for 100% attendance in our first week at school. We enjoyed juice and biscuits as our reward! We hope to be able to win again soon!  

  • Please ensure that your child has a coat in school - we do venture outside when it is raining, therefore we do need to be prepared!

  • The children are doing so well at eating their lunches. Thank you to those parents who are selecting their child’s food choices for the day. If anyone is experiencing difficulty with this, please talk to Mrs Hunt in the office.

  • If you need to speak to an adult at the end of the day, we politely request that you wait until we have dismissed all of the children from the class. Thank you.

Thank you for your continued support.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. We will see you on Monday.

Best Wishes

Miss Hazell, Mrs Skelton, Mrs Rumbelow, Miss Branscombe, Mrs Ofoma, Mrs Sworka and Mrs Prew x

 11.10.2024

Dear Parents/ Carers,

We have had a fantastic couple of weeks in Robins and Owls class, full of great learning experiences. The children were ever so excited to have our new school guinea pigs in the classroom where they fed them, cared for them and came up with some wonderful, imaginative names for each of them.  

Even though the weather has been unpredictable, we have made the most of every opportunity to learn outdoors. Our main highlight was our class walk in our local area! We were so proud of the children’s impeccable behaviour (as always) and we were impressed with how engaged they were to learn about different style houses/buildings, including detached, semi-detached, bungalows and a cabin for a local nursery. The children all spotted numbers on their journey including on doors, a post box, car number plates  and on speed signs. Well done children! Also, a huge  thank you to all of our parent volunteers. The trip couldn’t have gone ahead without you. 

This week was Biology week which kicked off with an incredible, inspiring assembly delivered by Mrs True, learning about why we need trees and plants to survive and what the negative effects of pollution can do to our environment. The children were very knowledgeable and were fascinated to learn even more.  The children continued to  immerse themselves into their biology learning by planting some bulbs. We hope our tulips and daffodils will brighten the spring months ahead.

This week's homework will be found on Tapestry where you are welcome to upload photos, videos, notes or if you prefer to bring in paper copies we will equally celebrate these. 

Robins were so excited to win ‘Attendopoly’ for fantastic attendance at school. We enjoyed an extra playtime on the exercise/climbing equipment as our reward! Fingers crossed all of Owls and Robins will win ‘Attendopoly’ again soon!

 Messages:

  • We look forward to seeing you all at parents evening on 17th October. Please book an appointment on SchoolCloud. 

  • Please continue to ensure that your child has a coat in school . Any gloves, hats and scarves also need to be named. Thank you!

  • Thank you for waiting for the children to be dismissed before speaking with us at the end of the day. This allows us to dismiss the children calmly and safely. 

  • Our Handwriting heroes and heroines this week are Florence, Joshua, Logan and Tymek. Well done!

Thank you for your continued support. 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Best Wishes

Miss Hazell, Mrs Skelton, Mrs Rumbelow, Miss Branscombe, Mrs Ofoma, Mrs Sworka and Mrs Prew x

 25.10.2024

Dear Parents/ Carers,

Welcome to our class email. We cannot believe that this half term is at an end already! We have thoroughly enjoyed spending time with all the children and getting to know them. Together we have completed so much learning and so many steps of progress have been made! We are so proud!

Last week we spent our time thinking about Harvest time in preparation for our Harvest festival. The children thought about different types of fruits and vegetables, where they grow, how they are harvested and then used some to create printed pictures. We thought about scarecrows and why they are used to protect the farmers fields with the children creating their own scarecrow faces using cutting and glueing techniques.

We hope you all enjoyed watching the children’s performance of the Harvest song. They were all very quick to pick up the words and the Makaton signing. If you haven’t seen it, please watch it on Tapestry.

Through our Religious Education and Worldviews learning we have been thinking about places and groups that we belong to. It was exciting to realise that not only do we belong in our family groups we belong to the Lark Rise family too. We broke that down even further and recognised that we belong to Owls and Robins classes and from here realised that we can have other groups that we belong to too including: children who have school lunch, children who have packed lunch or children who go to after school club.

This week our focus has been Autumn time. Following on from the homework that the children were set last week, we enjoyed searching our school environment for signs of Autumn.  The colours were so vibrant and we used bright paints to create pictures using the leaves we found. We particularly enjoyed learning about hedgehogs! We learnt some facts about hedgehogs. These are our favourites!

  • A baby hedgehog is called a ‘hoglet’.

  • Hedgehogs have 5 toes on each paw.

  • Hedgehogs can’t drink milk as it makes them poorly.

  • Hedgehogs have between 5000 and 7000 spines!

 Messages:

  • Thank you for coming to our learning review meetings last week. We hope you found them useful.

  • Please login to Google Classroom (details were sent out to you at the beginning of the week) for the homework over the half term.

  • Our Handwriting heroes and heroines this week are …. Well done!

Thank you for your continued support. 

We wish you all a wonderful half term. Enjoy spending time with your loved ones! See you on Monday 4th November 2024.

Best Wishes

Miss Hazell, Mrs Skelton, Mrs Rumbelow, Miss Branscombe, Mrs Ofoma, Mrs Sworka and Mrs Prew x