Robins Class

Class News Autumn Term 2024

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!