EYFS

Learning Link: People who help us

Welcome to Reception!

We are so excited about getting to know our new St Salvatore and St Henry classes and we know that we have a fantastic year ahead of us.

The first thing that we will be doing is making lots of new friends, learning everyone’s names, and finding out about each other and our school.

We are also going to be learning about the people who help us in our community. Not only those we turn to in emergencies, like doctors, nurses and firefighters, but also those who help to keep everything running in our daily lives. We are looking forward to hearing which jobs you would like to find out about and are hoping that we will have some visitors to come in and tell us about their roles.

Just before the Christmas holidays we will have a special S=P+A+C+E Day to celebrate and reflect on all the learning that we have done during our first term together at St Thomas’.

St. Salvatore:

Mrs Sumsion – mrssumsion@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St Henry:

Mon – Tues: Mrs Morgan– mrsmorgan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Weds – Fri: Mrs Hills- mrshills@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group Reminders

Week Commencing 8^th December

Nativity – Thursday 11^th December 9am

Please continue to support your child to learn these off by heart and with a loud clear voice by practising them at home. We hope that you can all join us on Thursday 11^th at 9am in the Junior Hall, when the children will be performing it for you. All costumes are being provided by the school so you don’t need to worry about bringing anything in.

S=P+A+C+E Day – Friday 12^th December

To celebrate our learning this term we are having our S=P+A+C+E day on Friday 12th December. On this day the children can come to school in their own clothes.

Advent Travelling Cribs

Our travelling cribs have already started coming home with the children. We have spoken to them about how special they are and how they can be shared with the family on the evening that they come home. Please be sure to return the wallet with all the contents the following day in order that we can ensure that each child has this wonderful opportunity before the end of term.

Uniform reminders

We have run out of joggers and grey school socks in our stock of spare clothing. If you have borrowed any, please could we ask for their return. Alternatively, if you have any that you would like to donate, we would be very grateful.

Please can you return the following on the following days:

Monday:

• Large plastic wallet including your child’s school reading book and completed reading record.
• Small plastic empty wallet (keep your sound cards at home)

Friday:

• Story sack

Pumpkin Soup Book

On Friday, the children will be bringing home their copy of the book that we have been reading this half-term, Pumpkin soup. This book is for your child to keep and enjoy reading at home, it does not need to be returned.

Story Sacks

On Friday 12^th December the sacks will be collected in for the holidays and we will continue to send them out in the new school term in January.

Home Learning

Phonics

Your child will be bringing home a small wallet containing the next set of Tricky Words learnt in school this week. Please keep the cards safe at home to use in a fun way. Please return the small wallet.

Over the next two weeks we will be assessing the children on their phonics as we have reached the end of Phase 2. Please can you  revisit all the digraphs and Tricky Words.

Reading books – Collins eBooks

Due to assessment week, we will not be sending home a reading book. Please enjoy reading the eBooks allocated and playing blending games with the flashcards.

Reading for Pleasure

The longest Wait by Alison Brewis

RE

Prophecy and Promise – Objective 6 – Jesus came for the whole world.

We will be listening to the Scripture of Luke 2:8-20.

We will learn that Jesus came for everyone in the whole world and Christians around the world celebrate His birth in different ways.

Personal, social, emotional development

We will be talking about how to be brave like Connie and show confidence when performing our first Nativity.

Literacy and Phonics

We will be rediscovering and assessing the sounds that we have learnt already:

s a t p i n m d g o c

k ck e u r h f l ll ss ff

j v w y z zz qu th sh

ch ng nk

We will be rediscovering and assessing the Tricky Words we have learnt:

is I the

put pull full as

and has his her

go no to into

she push he of

we me be

Communication and language

We will be asking relevant questions about how Christmas is celebrated around the world.

Mathematics

We will be ordering objects by size.

Understanding the World

We will be finding out about the tradition of the travelling nativity – an idea that originated in Mexico – known as Posada.

Expressive arts and design

We will be performing in our first Nativity at St Thomas’.

Music

We will practise finding the pulse of music. We will practise our Nativity songs and consider ‘performing’.

Physical Development (in PE)

Introduction to PE Unit 1

Introduction to PE Unit 2

Finding space, freezing on command, using and sharing equipment and working individually and in partners/groups. Take part in ‘adventure and fantasy’ themed activities which will develop fundamental movement skills such as running, jumping, skipping.

Ball skills

Roll and throw with some accuracy towards a target.Throw underarm. Beginning to catch with two hands.

Vocabulary

Additional resource