Reception has had such a busy week this week! On Tuesday, we went on our first school trip to Hounslow Urban Farm. The children loved it! We had 3 activities planned for the day. At the farm talk, children got to hold and stroke fluffy farm animals including: a mouse, guinea pig, duck, chicken and even a chinchilla. At the exotic talk, children got to hold and stroke a tortoise, bearded dragon, giant African land snail, stick insect, hissing cockroach, lizard and a boa constrictor! They really amazed and surprised us with how fearless and brave they were. At the end of the day, we went to an owl display; we enjoyed calling out to the owl to tell him where to fly. Ozzie the owl was very good at coming back to the lady who was looking after him, and the children ducked as he flew over their heads. In maths this week, we have been revisiting our number bond knowledge. As it was ‘World Bee Day’ on Monday, in our topic lesson, we learned about the importance of bees, what they do to help us and how we can support their existence. Very excitingly, we have released our beautiful butterflies that arrived as caterpillars when we started to care for them. We have seen the life cycle and it was a very special moment seeing them happily fly away. We are ready for half term, and to finish it off we are going to have a ‘Bug Ball’ to conclude our topic learning about ‘minibeasts’.

            

            

            

            

            

 

Key messages:

• To review the phonics sounds that your child has been learning, please visit the phonics website: https://sites.google.com/thevineyardschool.org/phonicsthevineyard/reception 

• Please continue to give us donations of clean recycling to add to our junk modelling as we use it throughout the year - egg boxes, small boxes, toilet rolls etc. 

• Vineyard Adventurers has started; please make sure children come in their PE kit with long trousers to cover their legs, with some wellies and a waterproof coat. If they have waterproof trousers, please send them in too.

• Class photos are on Thursday 6th June - please send your child in wearing their normal uniform, NOT their PE kit.

• Own clothes day is on Friday 7th June to raise some money for the summer fair.