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Oscar and the Frog!

Dear Parents,

This week children have enjoyed the story ‘Oscar and the Frog’. We have been looking at the Life Cycle of the Frog and comparing it with the Life Cycle of Butterfly and Plant. 

During Maths, we explored numbers bonds to 5 and 10 (a combination of pairs, which, when added, give the sum as a whole number).

What is a Number Bond? | Definition & Examples - Twinkl

In PHSE, we celebrated Fathers Day and shared our experiences with important male figures in our families. We also, made cards for the children to share with their loved ones.

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team.

Farm Visit

Dear parents/carers,

Early Years children enjoyed visiting Deen City Farm where they learnt about farm animals, their features and characteristics. We had the opportunity to feed them and pet them.

The children had a very enjoyable day, sharing lunch together, singing with ukulele man, and finally playing in the playground farm.

We would like to share some of the pictures with you. I hope you enjoy them, as we did on our trips.

Have a lovely half-term!!

Evia (24.05.2023)

Corfu (25.05.2023)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kefallonia (26.05.2023)

Life Cycles!!

Dear Parents/ Carers,

 

The children are enjoying watching how our seeds and caterpillars are going through their life cycles.

We have explored fiction and non-fiction books around our topic and went on a small trip to the school library. Children enjoyed looking at different fiction and non fiction books.

In Maths, we have been focusing on one more/less and writing the mathematical equations using the correct symbols.

We hoped you enjoyed Corfu’s Assembly.

We hope you have a lovely, sunny weekend,

Early Years Team 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

Hello Parents/ Carers,

We hope you enjoyed your bank holiday and the Coronation Day!!!

 

We have been very busy practicing for our assemblies. We kindly ask you to practice your child’s lines with them and to please bring in their costumes as soon as possible.

 

The book for the rest of the term is ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Children will be retelling the story using props and exploring the different fruits.

 

During Maths we are continuing our learning of representing numbers in different ways.

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team

Week 28.04.23

Dear Parents/ Carers,

 

This week, we have been talking about caring for plants and vegetables. Children learnt that plants need soil, water and sun to grow and they also had the opportunity to grow some cress seeds in class.

 

Children have been busy rehearsing and practising their lines for our class assemblies. We are sending home the lines for each child so you can practice them at home as well. We will keep you posted with any updates!!

 

In Maths, we have introduced subsidise and different ways of making numbers.

 

During R.E we talked about Baptism- the day that someone becomes a Christian.

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team.

Welcome Back!

Dear Parents/ Carers,

 

We hope you had a restful Easter. The children have settled in nicely and enjoyed sharing what they did over the holidays.

 

The topic of this term is ‘In the Garden’. We have been exploring ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and we have been talking about root vegetables as well as their Life Cycle. Additionally, we linked the topic to our PSHE lessons; how to care for our environment by recycling.

 

In Maths, we have introduced the Inspire Maths Scheme and we focused on different ways to represent numbers.

 

P.S Please complete the homework sheets for English and Maths.

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team.

Preparations for Easter!

Dear parents/carers,

This week children have been busy with Easter activities, making cards, painting candles, making Easter bags and dying Easter eggs.

We learnt about the Orthodox Easter Story and the Annunciation (the announcement of the good news).

During Maths, we practiced addition using Numicon and number blocks. We introduced the mathematical equation of addition; plus and equals sign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great weekend, 

Early Years

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Good afternoon parents & carers,

 

Early Years Team would like to wish all the mums, a very happy Mother’s Day.

 

 

 

 

 

During this week, children have been learning about the five senses and sharing their night routines.

 

 

We learn a new concept: Sharing Equally. ‘When we have an even number (2,4,6,8 or 10), we share it by saying “1 for you, 1 for me” and everyone needs to have the same quantity at the end’

 

 

 

During RE, children started learning about Easter, and we have learnt about Lazarus and Jesus.

 

 

 

 

Homework-17.03.2023

 

Have a lovely weekend!!

Early Years Team

Peace at Last!

Hello parents/ carers,

 

This week’s topic book is ‘Peace at Last’. Children have been exploring houses from the past and present and compared similarities and differences (e.g. in the past people were using buckets of water to wash their clothes were as now people have washing machines).

 

 

 

 

In maths, we revisit 2D shapes and their properties and introduced more 3D shapes.

We looked around our environment and find many objects with different shapes.

 

Children learnt about germs and how we need to wash our hand through experiments. We pretend that ground black pepper were the germs and they put soap to keep the germs away.

 

 

 

 

During RE, we learnt how we show our love to God in his house by lighting a candle in church and saying a prayer:  Dear God, I came to light a candle at school today, to show how much I love you, Amen.

Homework-10.03.2023

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team.

Peepo Week 2!

Dear Parents/ Carers,

 

The children this week have been practising rhyming words e.g. ‘One, two, three, What can you see?’ from our topic book.

 

In Maths, we have been exploring subtraction using Numicon Shapes and playdough.

 

During R.E, the children got to fly their own kites for Clean Monday – Greek Orthodox celebration in preparation for Easter.

Homework-03.03.2023

Have a lovely weekend,

Early Years Team.