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Please feel free to email in photos of your child's learning adventures during the school closure to add to our gallery.

Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge 2020

This year’s Summer Reading Challenge will run from June to September, offering children and families the chance to take part online and receive rewards for their reading.

Silly Squad, the Summer Reading Challenge 2020, will celebrate funny books, happiness and laughter. Children taking part in the Challenge will join the Silly Squad, an adventurous team of animals who love to have a laugh and get stuck into all different kinds of funny books!

To take part your child will need to sign up and create a profile at sillysquad.org.uk. They can then set their own challenge to read any amounts of books during this time. They can read anything that makes them happy – comics, joke books, poetry, fiction or non-fiction; in digital or print format: from e-book lending through the public library service or from what they already have at home.

Each time they finish a book, they add it to their profile and write a review. Along the way they will be rewarded with activities and incentives such as badges, games and videos. They will also receive a downloadable certificate once they’ve completed the challenge!

Spring

The children have been in school for over a term now. They have already enjoyed many experiences such as our harvest festival and performing in our Christmas concert. The children have also been working hard during RWI sessions which is helping them to learn the skills in order to read and write. Please support your child by helping them to write sentences at home and by reading with them. In Maths the children are also learning to recognise digits 0-20, finding one more/less than a number, adding and subtracting, learning the vocabulary involved in weight such as heavy and light and learning the names and properties of 3D shapes such as sphere, cube, cuboid, cylinder and cone. Any support you can give your child in these areas at home will really support their progress.

Our outdoor classroom 

In Reception we have a garden which we refer to as an 'outdoor classroom', this is because children learn so much by playing and exploring in the outdoors; all areas of the EYFS curriculum can be learnt about outdoors. The children in Reception utilise the outdoor classroom at all times of the year, helping them to learn about seasons and the weather, so please ensure your child has a coat for cold weather and sun cream and hat for hot weather.

Discovery time

During Discovery time we combine stories with topic work. In this way we can support children to become familiar with text, increase their vocabulary and understanding of it and learn to love books. They also gain a better  understanding of the world around them. Linking these experiences and stories will support children in their future learning, story writing in particular.

Author of the moment

Author 1:

Cressida Cowell, who recently became the new children's laureate is our current author of the moment. Every week we read one of her stories and review it. In this way we are encouraging children to read for pleasure in order to gain a life long love of books.

Author 2:

As part of National Schools Film Week the children visited the cinema to watch 'Peter Rabbit'. To link with this we made our author of the moment Beatrix Potter.

Author 3:

Tom Fletcher is our next author of the moment. The children are enjoying the humorous stories and colourful illustrations.

Things to bring in:

• PE kit- please ensure all items of clothing are named and in a bag. Your child's uniform should also be named.
• A pair of named Wellington boots to use in the outdoor classroom.

Thank you.