Welcome to Sunflower Class

Your class teacher is Miss Smith.

Our classroom assistants are Qamile and Gerry

We have PE on Thursdays.

The children should wear their PE kit to school on PE days.

Hello everyone,

Here we are in the second half of the Autumn Term and how time has flown by already! We have enjoyed getting to know your children and have been doing some fantastic learning and playing together.

This half term we will be learning about Celebrations!

There are quite a few this half term and as they are part of the children's lives it is important for us to learn a little more about them through teaching and taking part in different activities - ‘Spooky stuff!’, Remembrance Day, Diwali, Keeping our teeth healthy, People who help us and Christmas.

Our books will be......

Winnie the Witch
Funny Bones
Non -fiction books about the body, teeth and visiting the dentist
Various titles about people who help us (to include the teaching of road safety and keeping safe)
Stickman
The Christmas story and other Christmas stories.

Please have a look at the learning in more detail below on our Curriculum plans.

On Friday the 6th of November we have a Spooky dress up day at school. The children can come dressed as anything spooky, the staff will be dressed up too!

The children also have had a challenge we set for their half term – show us how you put on and fasten your coat independently. Your child can receive a certificate for doing so.

We are also continuing to learn the next letter sounds from Read, Write Inc Set 1 as well as practicing our sounds skills to read and spell words.

There is a 'Learning to Read' meeting in the school hall on Wednesday the 11^th of November at 8.40am which we encourage you to come to, to help support your child with reading at home.

We shall be starting our Supervised Toothbrushing Programme this half term.

As part of our Reception curriculum plans, every child will brush their teeth once a day during school time, which will be supervised by the staff. All the resources have been provided by our Oral Health Improvement Practitioner (Essex) from The Community Dental Services CIC.

We have a challenge on the way - 'Brush your teeth chart', see below. Once completed, the children can win a prize for their healthy teeth!

I am looking forward to a very packed half term of learning once again!

Thank you, Miss Smith

Curriculum Plans for this half term.

Please make sure that your child has their coat everyday as we like to go out in the garden for some of our learning.

Please ensure your child has all their uniform, coats, P.E. kit and bags labelled clearly. Thank you.

School lunch

All children in Year 0 are entitled to a free school meal.

The menu is designed and cooked from fresh by our experienced catering staff every day. The menu runs on a 3 week timetable and can be found here.

Every child is entitled to lunch and it is a good social and learning experience for the children as well as saving you making a packed lunch every day!

The Early Years staff have lunch with the children to encourage tasting and eating a variety of foods and good table manners.

Please come and ask any member of the Early Years staff anything you are unsure of. Every morning there is a member of staff at the gate that you can speak to. If it is something more detailed you can make an appointment to see the teacher after school.