YearR

We hope that you have all enjoyed a fun, yet restful Half Term. We are looking forward to a fun week when we return, learning about Bonfire Night and meeting with our Year 6 buddies again for some firework craft!

We enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you before Half Term to share and celebrate your child’s successes since starting school. Please can we remind you to add a comment to the Tapestry post we sent out before your parents evening meeting, titled ‘My first half term at school’. It’s lovely to hear your views on your child’s achievements so far.

The children have all done amazingly well and we hope they are recharged after the holiday ready to begin our next topic ‘Terrific Tales.’ Here is the Newsletter for this Half Term Year R newsletter Autumn 2 2024. As always, please do speak to us if you have a question.

Please can we remind you that the school’s weekly newsletter published every Friday contains information relevant to the whole school, including Year R. For some school-wide events, the information is emailed out directly to you.  Although we do communicate directly with you via Tapestry for Year R specific events (e.g. Autumn Walk), we do not duplicate information published on the school newsletter or emailed out directly to you. Please do ensure you are reading the school’s newsletter thoroughly each week to ensure you don’t miss out on an event, and making a note of events sent out via email from the school office. The next school-wide events coming up are the Scholastic book fair, and ‘Odd Socks Day’ during Anti-Bullying week. Check your emails from the school office, and take a look at the newsletter to find out more.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year R Team.

We have all thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and your children properly over the last week and beginning to get to know you. We really appreciate you giving us such a warm welcome into your homes, so thank you from us all in Year R.

The children have all been amazing as they’ve come into school; they’ve shown such resilience and risk taking in the face of their new adventure and lots of curiosity as they’ve met new classmates and explored their new classrooms and outside learning areas. Everyone’s gone home smiling!

As we explained on our home visits we will post a half termly newsletter during the first week of each half term. These newsletters will give you an overview of what we will be teaching your child during the half term so you can support them with their learning at home.

This term we will spend the first few weeks focussing on settling the children into school before beginning our Phonics and Maths teaching.

During this period we will be:

• building supportive and trusting relationships with your child.
• supporting your child to form new relationships with their classmates.
• building up our daily routines gradually to ensure they are embedded and understood.
• building your child’s independence in completing daily routines.
• introducing new areas of the school gradually so all the children feel safe and secure.
• playing games and completing activities with the children to find out more about their individual starting points before their learning journey with us begins.

You can click on the link below to read this term’s newsletter.

Year R newsletter Autumn 1 2024

Please can we remind you that we are holding an online meeting this Wednesday 11th September at 6pm on Zoom. During this meeting we’ll give you information about how we teach Phonics, Reading, Writing and Maths in Year R and you’ll hopefully find it useful so you can support your child’s learning at home. The link for this meeting was sent out last week. Please check your junk mail if you haven’t seen it yet.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Mrs Baird, Mrs Callaghan and Mrs Rushton