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11th January 2011
Happy New Year and welcome back. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and we would like to thank you for the thoughtful gifts that we received. Now is the time for detox and diet!
The weather has not been too kind so far and so we thought we could give you a few ideas if school has to close because of snow. The children have the opportunity to work on various websites at school and if you have internet access at home you might like to visit them.
Our topic this half term is called Rhyme time. We will be looking at different nursery rhymes, poems and reading lots of rhyming stories as well as playing rhyming games.
We have begun the term with a super rhyme about robots and the children have used boxes and bits to create their own. They are up on the wall already and make a magnificent display!
We have been singing “Pat a cake pat a cake baker’s man” and today the children were very excited to make buns. They followed the recipe and the buns look delicious!
On Friday 14th January it is the turn of the Foundation Unit to sell cakes and buns to the rest of the school. Please bring donations to school on Friday morning.
Miss Ashleigh Pole is an education student in her final year at Huddersfield University. She will be completing her final teaching placement in the unit and will be working closely with the reception children. She has been to visit several times and we are looking forward to working with her.
It seems a while away but parents evenings have been organised for 16th and 17th February. As usual there will be an early meeting (3.30-5.30pm) and a later evening (6-8pm). Nursery parents will also be invited to attend.
Welcome back after half term!
We’ve had a very busy first week back at school building up to our Diwali celebration. We made beautiful Rangoli patterns to welcome visitors.
We read the exciting story of Rama and the demon king. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening and re-telling the story using the puppets.
Ravana the ten headed demon king caught the imagination of the children and they made wonderful collages and paintings to show what he looked like.
We had a taste of India when we made uncooked sweets. The children weighed, crushed and mixed the ingredients before rolling the dough. Then they took their sweets home to eat!
The children dressed in traditional Indian clothes as they played in the home corner.
Their beautiful work has made a fantastic display in our classroom!
Our topic this half term is called ‘Over the rainbow!’ We are going to be looking at colour, pattern and shape. We went on a shape hunt to look at different shapes in our environment.
This week is open week, so please feel free to come and have a look at what we are doing and have a tour of the whole school.
Next week we will be welcoming Mrs Greenwood back to the FSU! She is going to be working in the unit every morning.
22nd September 2010
Just a quick update.
It was great to see so many parents/carers at our reading meeting last night. We hope you found it interesting, informative and fun! There was a lot of information so the powerpoint presentation is being made available for you to view just click on the link.
For those who missed it here are a few of the games we played!
Eyes down ready for Tricky word Bingo!
Racing against the timer to match the words and pictures.
Learning new skills on the interactive whiteboard.
Trying to cross the Golden River!
AUTUMN TERM 2010
Welcome to a new school year! We hope you all had a good summer and are ready for the year ahead!
The reception children have settled back into the routines of the unit very well. We have been joined by the new nursery children and our very sensible older children are taking on the responsibility of helping them settle in.
As usual we begin the year with a topic called “All about me” This will involve getting to know our new environment and making friends. We will be talking about our families and the things that we like to do together. Through the snack routine we will be looking at healthy eating and making sensible choices.
Our extra role play area this half term is a baby clinic and the children are already getting busy looking after the babies.
Mr Corbridge has once again been very busy making our outdoor space even better. He has put up brushwood screening to hide the fence and been busy tying off the willow to create a tunnel. He cut out shapes which the children have now painted and he has hung them in our shelter. The top of the sandpit suffered from vandalism so he has made a new stronger lid and hopefully this will be vandal proof! He made a wonderful role play board which we can use as a house, shop, petrol station, in fact anything the children decide upon!
Harry’s sunflowers! WOW!
Mr Corbridge gives his time and skill voluntarily and we are very grateful. Our outdoor area is fab!
We are always looking for volunteers to help in the unit especially on book changing days! If you feel you could help out on a regular basis that would be fantastic. Please speak to a member of the FSU team.
We have arranged an information meeting for Foundation Stage parents to give an insight into the way we teach reading at this level. This will be held in the unit on Tuesday 21st September at 6.00pm
Another date for your diary is Friday 8th October at 10.00am when we are all going along to St Michael’s church for our Harvest celebration.
Our first parents’ evenings will be on Wednesday 13th October (3.30pm- 5.30pm) and Thursday 14th October (6.00 – 8.00pm).
The reception children are enjoying their time in the computer suite with Mrs Saville and are becoming very good at mouse control and finding their way around the website. If you want to see what they can do visit www.poissonrouge.com and find out.
Remember if you have any questions or concerns please speak to a member of the FS team and we will do our best to help!
Curriculum
Long Term Planning Foundation Stage Cycle A
Themes for medium term planning
Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
Investigations: Settling into new environment both indoor and outdoor
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Festivals: Bonfire Night, Divali, Christmas Eid (direction taken from children’s interest and timing of festivals) |
Food and Keeping Healthy: Favourite foods Role-play restaurant Handa’s Surprise & other story books
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People Who Help Us: Police, fire, health, parents, teachers, lollipop people; Road safety Stranger danger Caring for each other at school |
Animals Naming, environments, sounds, stories, visits, sorting – domestic/ wild etc |
Materials textures, investigating different materials in the environment recycling magnets, making instruments |