Last week in Reception, we embraced the spirit of Kindness Week! The highlight was creating a kindness chain. Each child gave a compliment to someone in the class which was written down on a paper link. Once they were all joined together, it was a visual reminder of how small acts of kindness can connect us all. In English, we extended the theme by writing about why being kind is important, with some wonderful sentences like, “I am kind because I share my toys.” The children also made a feelings diary, and their own ‘zones of regulation’ lanyard. In maths, we introduced the children to the concept of part-whole models, breaking down numbers to see how they are made. Using the number block characters and coloured cubes, the children explored different ways to make numbers 1-5, and used the sentence stem “I’m 1 and I’m a part, and 1 and I’m a part and the whole of me is 2.” This week, science was illuminating (literally!) as we learned about sources of light. We went on a source of light hunt and noticed how some of the sources of light do not come from electricity. The week became even more exciting with a shadow puppet activity! After exploring how light creates shadows, the children made their own puppets and used torches to put on imaginative shadow shows. In phonics, the children learned the sounds z and x; they have now learned all the single sounds and will begin learning ‘special friends’ next week. These two weeks were full of curiosity and collaboration, whether through acts of kindness, creative shadow play, or practising their nativity.

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Key messages:

• We have noticed that increasingly children are eating their breakfast at the school gates and the classroom door. Please can we ask that children are not eating food at the door and have finished their breakfast before school.

• Please bring reading folders back on Wednesday, in their named folder, in order for your child to receive new books the following day. Please write a short comment in their reading record.

• A reminder that children are not to play on the climbing frame or use the school equipment before and after school, including siblings.

• Please can you continue to give us donations of clean recycling to add to our junk modeling as we use it throughout the year - small boxes, toilet rolls etc. However we cannot accept anything that once contained nuts, eggs or fish.

• Christmas play - Wednesday 11th December (Opal class), Thursday 12th December (Topaz), Friday 13th December (Jade).