Friday 21st December

Useful information and requests:

• We have a fantastic pirate day coming up on Tuesday 15th January. The children will need to be dressed as pirates for the day. It is a fantastic workshop and we know the children will love it.We need lots of adult support to help us make it a special day. You can sign up online.
• We have loads of junk- so no more  at the moment please!!!

• Things to do...
• Please encourage your child to read over the holidays. It is also important to read to them as this helps them to learn new vocabulary and teaches them about the importance of expression to make a story more interesting for the listener and gives them an understanding of story structure. Ask them questions about the characters and what is happening.Can they say what might happen next?
• Please recap the sounds the children have learnt this term. Encourage your child to sound out simple words and blend them back together. You could speak in sound talk when you ask them to do something e.g. Please get the p-e-n. 

The children did so well in their Christmas production. We are incredibly proud of them. They sang and danced beautifully and said their words so clearly. They were amazing when we had technical difficulties and waited so patiently and quietly.

Here they are looking fantastic in their costumes:

Magic moments.We will be emailing the magic moments sheets to you. We would be very grateful if you could record any 'Magic Moments' that happen over the Christmas break. For example: Your child riding a bike for the first time or going to a wedding/ visiting a new place/ski-ing etc.


ChIL fun:

We were very sad to say goodbye to wonderful Mrs Pattrick this morning. The children were fantastic saying the Reception poem- all the words were their own ideas. They all drew fabulous pastel pictures of Mrs Pattrick which we used to decorate the hall. We are all going to miss Mrs Pattrick a great deal. We wish her masses of good luck in her new job.

The children had an early lunch today in the classroom. This was because they had a special treat. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous pantomime. It was 'Beauty and the Beast' The children really enjoyed it.

Thank you so much for the very generous Christmas presents and vouchers. We have had a great first term with your children and wish you all a very Happy Christmas and relaxing holiday!
The Year R Team