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1 year ago
Posted on 17th May 2023 by

Worries

As part of our Mental Health week, Reception had an assembly where we talked about our worries. The children were very sensible and very brave and shared concerns such as

“starting a new dance class”

“moving up a group at beavers”

“going to the cinema”

“at night when it’s dark”

We talked about ways we can reduce our worries such as:-

Doing something to take your mind off it-walking, colouring in, playing a game

Hand breathing

Talking about it.

We also shared the book Ruby has a worry by Tom Percival.

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1 year ago
Posted on 16th May 2023 by

Mathsframe Website

https://mathsframe.co.uk/

We have recently purchased a subscription to a website called ‘Mathsframe’ where our children can log-in to access a wide range of games to play at home.

Your children will be bringing home the username and password soon that they will require to access all of the games that are available.

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1 year ago
Posted on 14th May 2023 by

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Walk to School Week | Living Streets

This week at St George’s we will be promoting Walk to School Week.

This is a five-day walking challenge that begins on Monday 15th of May. It encourages children to travel actively to school every day of the week. This could be walking, cycling or scooting to school. If it is not possible to walk the distance, you could ‘park and stride,’ which means parking further than you normally would and walking the rest of the way. 

During the week, the children will meet various animals and they’ll learn about the important reasons to walk and the difference it can make for individuals, communities and the planet! Each animal will educate the children on one of the following reasons: Inclusion, Sustainability, Health, Mindfulness and Friendship.

Good luck!

1 year ago
Posted on 09th May 2023 by

Egg-citing news!

Today we had some exciting visitors to reception- 10 eggs ready to hatch! They had not been with us for more than 30 minutes before our first two chicks hatched. We decided to call them King Charles the third and Queen Camilla.

But that wasn’t all! By the end of the day we had 8 chicks hatch! Over the next two weeks we will learn how to care and look after them and all about their life cycle. We look forward to giving you more updates and hope the children come home and tell you all about what they are learning!

1 year ago
Posted on 08th May 2023 by

Tricky words

We are challenging the children to learn to recognise tricky words quickly. Over the year, we have introduced the children to lots of tricky words. It is important that children are regularly practising sight recognition of these words to enable them to develop into more fluent and confident readers. Below are links to two tricky words songs to help you practise with your child!

Phase two tricky words

Tricky Words and Sight Words Song – YouTube

Phase three tricky words

Any work that you do at home with your children we would love to hear about! Please head over to tapestry and upload pictures and videos to show us what they are getting up to outside of school!

1 year ago
Posted on 08th May 2023 by

Phonics revision

Over this week , we have been reminding ourselves about some of the phase three sounds we have learnt. Due to a couple of weeks with bank holidays, we will be continuing revision of these sounds next week.

oo   oo  ar  or

Long oo lesson

Short oo lesson

ar lesson

or lesson

1 year ago
Posted on 01st May 2023 by

Phonics revision

We have been revising some of the phonic sounds that we have already learnt this year. This week it is ai, ee, igh, oa.

Here are some of the Little Wandle lessons that you can practise with your child at home to help them:

ai- https://youtu.be/MoCnunAWbGk

ee- https://youtu.be/cEffZUP4d_8

igh- https://youtu.be/cEffZUP4d_8

oa- https://youtu.be/d0X8phlr3Jc

It would be great if you could take pictures/videos of the children practising their phonics at home and add it to their tapestry account.

 

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1 year ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2023 by

Coronation bunting

We have been very busy in Reception this afternoon preparing for the coronation. We talked about King Charles the Third. We looked carefully at the Union Jack flag and then made bunting.

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1 year ago
Posted on 26th Apr 2023 by

Blooming

After our focus on healthy bodies and vegetables last week, we have now turned our attention to healthy minds. We have been reading the book Bloom which is all about the effects of kind words.

We have also been examining some flowers. We have looked at the stems, the petals, the roots and the leaves. We talked about plants you can eat and plants you can’t eat.