Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA)
Let’s get ready to play!
Hello everyone!
We’ve been busy this week meeting some of our new children at their home visits. It’s been lovely finding out about you all and what you like to do. We’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our returning children. We can’t wait see see how much you have grown and to find out about your summer holidays. Remember your first day back at Nursery will be for a half day session.
Nursery is now ready for the new school year. Have a look at the photos to see what you might like to play with next week. We’ve tried to make sure that there’s something for everyone to enjoy, including some of your favourite things that you told us about on home visits. We’ve got Paw Patrol, fairies, diggers, The Gruffalo and lots more ready for you to come and play.
Where will you play?
A few reminders from home visits: what your child will need every day…
- A waterproof coat (named)
- A pair of wellies (named)
- A change of clothes (top, trousers/ leggings, underwear, socks)
- A filled water bottle (named)
See you on Monday !
Living and learning : I follow the school rules
We’ve spent lots of time this week talking about our school rules. We want our school to be a happy and healthy place to learn and our school rules help it to be that.
The children had lots of ideas about what we do in school to follow our school rules.
Year 5,6 Reading Records
This week, we have launched our Year 5,6 Reading Records for the new school year!
Each Friday, your child will be given a Reading Record activity to complete. This should be completed at home and returned by the following Friday.
Alongside the weekly activity, we would also like to see evidence of your child reading at home with an adult. This can be recorded in the ‘Comments from Home’ section underneath the activity area. A short, signed comment from an adult is perfect. We recommend that children read aloud with an adult five times each week, as regular reading at home is incredibly valuable for developing fluency, prosody and understanding.
This week’s activity: Story Map
This week, children have been asked to create a Story Map based on the book they are currently reading.
They should choose a scene or chapter from their book and recreate it in the form of a comic strip or story map. They should draw the important parts of the scene and can add dialogue to help retell what happened.
We’re looking forward to seeing the children’s first Reading Record activities next Friday!
Dates for your diary
Key Dates for the Year: Here’s a list of dates for your diary, including Stay and Learns and our Learning Journey drop-in sessions, to help you plan ahead. These dates can also be found in your child’s Reception Welcome Pack.
Class Novel
In Year 5 and 6 this term, our class novel is…
Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
This novel links to our current History topic which includes learning about Ancient Egypt.
Help at home: Ask your child to summarise the key points of the story so far. Support them to be succinct by playing the ERM challenge! This is where they can’t say ERM or take long pauses when summarising! This will help develop their oracy skills.
Class information and Numbots logins
Your child will have brought home a class information letter and their Numbots/Times Table Rockstars login information. Have a look in their bags!
The class info letter is below too.
KS1 class information
Below is some information about your child’s new class and some of the day to day things that will help your child settle into their new class and routine. Please name everything your child brings into school.
- PE and/or swimming days – see below (PE kit from uniform policy can be worn all day on both days)
- Reading eBooks allocation day – Thursday. Please bring reading record in on this day and it will be returned on Friday.
- Library/love of reading book – Friday
- Spare clothes – can be kept in a small bag on their peg, if required
- Lunch menus – on the Class News/Year 1 & 2 page of the website
- Playtime snacks – fruit or vegetables only please but there is a fruit/veg bowl in each class for playtimes
- Water bottle – should be in school every day (can be emptied and refilled in school)
- Children will have their own tray for suncream, tissues, hats/gloves, snack
- Coat – please send one every day as we may be learning outside
- Numbots/TTRockstars and Collins Hub eBook usernames and passwords are stuck on the back of reading records
- Each class will swim for 1 term during the year. Classes will be informed when it is their turn.
PE days
- 1A (Mrs Palmer/Mrs Brown) – Monday and Friday
- 1,2B (Mrs Latham) – Tuesday and Friday
- 2C (Mrs Paterson/Mrs Wilkins) – Monday and Friday
Homework and spellings are posted weekly too :
https://50ba64cf42aa5ce33ed5ffd3ca44503c-11586.sites.k-hosting.co.uk/scholes/category/homework/
Teachers emails for non-urgent questions :
- 1A Mrs Palmer / Mrs Brown – [email protected] / [email protected]
- 1,2B Mrs Latham – [email protected]
- 2C Mrs Paterson/Mrs Wilkins – [email protected] / [email protected]
Please call the office for urgent queries or questions 0113-3649149
Welcome back
Welcome back everyone after the summer break. We hope everyone had a lovely summer. It was fantastic to see all the children returning to school this morning with big smiles on their faces. Parents looked pretty happy too!
Here are a few reminders to help everyone through the first term.
PE days
5,6A – Mondays and Wednesdays
5,6 B – Wednesdays and Fridays
5,6 C – Wednesdays and Fridays
If your child has PE on a Friday, please wear PE kit on Friday this week.
Just a little reminder of uniform expectations. Here is a link to the uniform policy to make sure your child wears the correct uniform. This also includes PE kit.
The children will be bringing a library book and journal home this week. Please encourage your child to read aloud at home daily. We will be explaining how to use the journals but if you’re still unsure, please feel free to come and chat with us.
Remember to get your child logged onto Times Tables Rock Stars. Playing daily on this will massively help their mental maths skills and help them feel more confident in maths lessons. Homework will be handed out on a Friday and will contain spellings for the children to learn at home.
We hope your child has had a great first day and that they’ve settled back into school life well. Feel free to come and chat to us if you need any support or even just to say ‘hello’.
Welcome to Reception!
Welcome to Reception!
We’re looking forward to welcoming children to Reception this week and next week. As promised, here’s a sneaky peek at some of the classroom areas.
If you look carefully, you’ll be able to spot a few of the Reception teaching team playing in the classrooms and outside.
Mrs Myers loves dinosaurs!
Mrs Palmer enjoyed some subitising in the maths area.
Can you spot Mrs Long hiding?
Mrs Cowgill enjoyed making a sandcastle.
What do you think Mrs Albrecht is building?
Miss Pennock loves reading stories.
We can’t wait for you to join us playing – see you soon!
Welcome back
What a fantastic summer! We hope that you managed to get out and enjoy the warm weather.
We’re looking forward to welcoming the children back to school today. Please take a minute to read through our uniform and PE policy.
PE days for all of year 3/4 are on Tuesday and Thursday. Children should come in their PE kit on those days.
Wednesday will be our Book Club day. For children and parents, this means that children will need to have their signed, completed reading record task and their library book in school. Each week, children will be set a reading task to be completed for homework. Help your child generate ideas as you read their library book to or with them. Get creative! encourage your child to consider their presentation and really explore the character, plot or author.