Welcome back, we hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable half term break. We are set for a busy term over the next few weeks with the children finishing their Reception year, assessing against the Early Learning Goals, Sports day and getting ready for their transition to Year 1. We will be talking a lot about the move to Year 1 and will be doing some transition work to help them to prepare for the move. It would be a good idea to begin to talk about this with your child so they can start to prepare for moving to a new year group.
Due to last half term being so short and us missing a week of Read Write Inc due to Year 6 SAT’s the children will not be assessed for another two weeks. Continue to hear your child daily either with their book bag book or their on line book and quiz. Continue to go through the sounds that can be found at the front of the online book. Encourage your child to read each book several times until they are reading it fluently. Below are some extra practice videos.
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/nw24Acx8/4Wz2rBMh
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/wKrJBlPT/NJkdJDA9
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JhGaM0Z8/CHDPeYb2
This week the children will begin to develop an understanding of sharing. They will investigate what sharing is and describe equal sharing as fair and unequal sharing as unfair. Within this block, we explore sharing and grouping, which are both different methods of division. Sharing involves dividing a set equally between a certain number of groups. Grouping involves dividing a set by placing a certain number of items in each group. . Children may remember from previous steps the concepts of even and odd numbers relating to this.
As we now head into the summer, please make sure your child comes to school each day for the varied British weather. Children should come into school each day with a water bottle containing only water, a sun hat and a waterproof jacket with a hood (even on hot sunny days). Sun cream should be applied before your child comes in to school. We recommend applying an all day sun cream as staff are not permitted to apply sun cream to your child. If you wish your child to reapply sun cream then please teach them how to do this themselves and discuss only needing a small amount.
Have a lovely week
The Reception Team