Yearly Plan
To view our plan of meetings for the academic year 2017/18, please click here.
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Statutory information re: Governors
To view more details about our governors including attendance statistics please click here
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Forthcoming Meeting Dates
Academic Year 2018/2019 Term 2: -
Wednesday 7th November - Premises and Safety SC
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Monday 12th November - Curriculum and Play SC
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Thursday 21st November - Finance and Personnel SC
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Wednesday 28th November - Full Governing Body
Click here to learn more about our sub-committees
Visit our blog page for snap shot of our Full Governing body meetings
Yearly Plan
To view our plan of meetings for the academic year 2017/18, please click here.
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Statutory information re: Governors
To view more details about our governors including attendance statistics please click here
​
​
Forthcoming Meeting Dates
Academic Year 2018/2019 Term 2: -
Wednesday 7th November - Premises and Safety SC
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Monday 12th November - Curriculum and Play SC
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Thursday 21st November - Finance and Personnel SC
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Wednesday 28th November - Full Governing Body
Click here to learn more about our sub-committees
Visit our blog page for snap shot of our Full Governing body meetings
Term 4
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Key Dates for Term 4
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Tuesday 23rd February - First day of term
Thursday 1st April - Last day of term
Learning at home
It has been announced that all children will return to school on the 8th of March so home learning will continue for most children for the first 2 weeks of this term. We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back soon.
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We have been very impressed by how well many children have engaged in home learning and are so grateful for all the support you have given your children and how you have communicated this learning with us. Thank you! Please continue to access planning and resources on this page and to provide us with daily updates on Evidence Me.
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It is important to remember how children learn at this age. While the government have specified that primary children should be provided with 3 hours work a day, Reception children cannot and should not be expected to sit down and focus on academic work for long stretches. When in school, typically children would sit and listen to an adult led lesson for around 15 minutes and this would often include some involvement from the children. They are usually then free to go and select activities from the range of continuous and enhanced provision we have in the classroom or outside area. Continuous provision includes resources which are always available such as the climbing frame, scissors and glue or a doll's house. Enhanced provision is carefully chosen by practitioners to spark interest and develop skills. For example this might include pumpkins and golf tees to hammer to engage children and strengthen finger muscles; maybe Christmas decoration making; or making pasta necklaces. Adults observe and sometimes play alongside children, communicating and modelling where necessary. Sometimes adults call children over to complete specific directed tasks such as letter formation or phonics practice.
We would recommend working in a similar way at home. You will all be experiencing lockdown under a range of circumstances and we want learning to be as flexible as possible to suit you. For this reason we are providing video clips to introduce and model new learning. We suggest watching these clips with your child so you can see the language used and concepts introduced. Staggering these throughout the day is likely to be the easiest and most productive way to access the learning. We require that you use the evidence me app to send in observations of your child's learning so we can track their progress and offer support.
We are continuing to offer a daily zoom story time where an adult from the EYFS bubble reads a story to the EYFS children. This is daily at 2:30pm for anyone who would like to join in. Stories can also be viewed afterwards on this page. Class teachers will be in touch with details of two interactive zoom sessions a week.
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Term 4 Summary
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This term we are going to start with exploring pets, expanding our vocabularies related to pets and considering how we care for other living creatures. We will then move on to the joys of spring before finishing with Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs. We will continue to provide lessons in the format of daily short video clips with accompanying activities for literacy, phonics and maths. We will also suggest activities from the wider curriculum designed to engage your child and inspire further play. If you would like a reminder of what it is hoped children are able to do by the end of Reception you can see the Early Learning Goals here.
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Phonics and Reading in Term 4 of Reception
In phonics we will be reviewing all those phase 3 sounds we have just learnt and applying them in our reading and writing. We will steadily continue adding new tricky words at an average of 1 new word a week. Please find here some general resources and links to support with phonics and reading at this stage.
Phase 3 flashcards - word reading with sound buttons for support
Phase 3 flashcards - word reading unsupported
Phase 3 flashcards - caption reading
Tricky words arranged in word bag sets
Oxford Owls - ebook Library for Letters and Sounds
Phonics play - phase 3 games and activities
Oxford Owl story teller videos
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Writing in Term 4 of Reception
In writing we will continue to work on constructing simple sentences. We will practise planning our sentence, 'holding' it in our heads, forming letters neatly, using soundtalk to spell, writing tricky words, using finger spaces, including full stops and capital letters and reading the sentences we have written back out loud to check for mistakes. An updated set of colourful semantics including words with phase 3 sounds will be used a lot this term. Please find here some general resources and links to support with writing at this stage.
Alphabet strip for letter formation
Video clip - How to use colourful sematics to practise simple sentences
Colourful semantics cards - phase 2 sounds
Additional colourful semantics cards - phase 3 sounds
Video clip - How to write a simple sentence.
Picture and sentence cards. Read, match, memorise, cover, write, check.
Uppercase and lowercase tracing
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Maths in Term 4 of Reception
In maths we will look at the numbers 9 and 10 and explore their composition before spending some time consolidating all our maths learning so far. We will particularly work on strengthening recall of number bonds within ten.
Early Number Sense video clip
Subitising - A guide for parents
I spy numbers 1-10 - spotting numbers with a range of representations
All About Numbers Booklet 1-10 - different representations including number formation
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Weekly planning and resources
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Week 1 23/02/21 The Great Pet Sale
This week we are looking at all things pets! We will be thinking about how to care for
other creatures and share our own experiences of pet ownership with each other. We
will ease back into phonics by reviewing phase 3 and will explore numbers 9 and 10 in
maths.
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Planning for the week can be found here.
Additional cards for phase 3 colourful semantics - simple sentence writing
Tuesday: I spy phonics 1
Wednesday: Literacy - My Favourite Pet writing template
Thursday: Literacy - Find the pet
Friday: Phonics - read and draw 1
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Tuesday - Storytime with Miss Ireland - Hairy Maclary's Bone
Wednesday - Storytime with Mrs Upham - Mog the forgetful cat
Thursday - Storytime with Miss Light - Where, oh Where is Kipper's bear?
Friday - Storytime with Miss Ireland - Cockatoos
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Week 2 01/03/21 The Great Pet Sale continued
As this is Book Week, we are going to read as many different books as
we can about pets and even make our own non-fiction books by writing
a page a day. We are also going to begin identifying and writing capital
letters for us to use at the start of sentences and for names.
Planning for the week can be found here.
Uppercase and lowercase tracing
Monday: Phonics boardgame
Tuesday: Phonics gap fill
Wednesday: Phonics read and draw
Thursday: Phonics Activity Mats
Friday: Phonics circle the word
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Monday - Storytime with Mrs Upham - Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet
Tuesday - Storytime with Miss Ireland - The Wish Cat
Wednesday - Storytime with Miss Light - Some Dogs Do
Thursday - Storytime with Mrs Upham - What the Ladybird Heard
Friday - Storytime with Miss Light - Mog and the vet
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Week 3 08/03/21 When Spring Comes
School is open for all! :)
Planning for the week can be found here
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Week 4 15/03/21 The Bog Baby
Planning for the week can be found here
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Week 5 22/03/21 Tap! Tap! The Egg Cracked!
Planning for the week can be found here
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