Reception celebrate Yellow day!


Today we celebrated World Mental Health day by dressing up in Yellow clothes. It was so lovely to see the children looking so colourful. We talked about how we were feeling and lots of children said they felt happy because of their yellow top or yellow dress. Here are some photos of us all under the balloon arch!

Reception Class Visitor

Last week, we were very lucky in Reception to have a visitor to come and see us in school. Sandy Goldstraw, who used to work here at St Georges, very kindly came in to tell us some interesting stories about events involving animals that happened during her time here. It was a great introduction to the children to think about the meaning of the past. The children (and the staff) found the stories very interesting, we particularly liked the story about the tiger! Reception parents- be sure to ask your children the tiger story!

Reception scooters

Reception have really enjoyed using the new scooters this week. We have made sure we have helmets on to be safe.

We have also had fun learning how to  using spanners and allen keys to check that everything is tight.

Reception learning about lanyards

As part of our ‘all about school’ week, we have looked at lanyards that we will see adults wearing when they are working here. We talked about our rainbow lanyards and what they mean. We also looked at the different lanyards that visitors to our school may wear and discussed what each one meant.

Bug club log on

You should have received a Bug Club letter with your child’s log on details on Friday. This will enable you to access reading books at home to help support your child to learn to read. We are initially focussing on wordless books whilst we learn how to blend and recognise all our letter sounds.

Tapestry

All parents should by now have received a Tapestry e-mail activation link. If you haven’t, please check your spam folders and then speak to your class teacher.

As well as putting photos of your child on there, we will also publish weekly memos to keep you up to day with the phonics, maths, stories and songs we are learning.

As always, please speak to a staff member or email us on

receptionteam@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

if you need any further advice.

Information for parents

Your children have all  settled into school really well. As part of the Statutory Assessment Duties,  over the next couple of weeks we will be carrying out the Reception Baseline Assessment with your child. This involves practical activities that help us learn what your child can already do and what their next steps are. There is more information in the leaflet below. Please speak to a teacher if you have any further queries. Thank you.

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Well done

Good morning

Well done to all the new children. We had a super first morning yesterday. The children will be in school all day today (Thursday 7th September) and collection time is 3.15. Please bear with us for the first few days as we learn all the new parent faces.