Key dates 

• Tuesday 15th December 2026 we will be having a carol service at 1:30pm - at St Peter’s church, which parents are welcome to join. 

• Wednesday 9th December 2026 - 9:30am Reception Nativity performance to parents/carers.

Noticeboard 

• Please bring in clean cardboard boxes of all sizes for our Design and Build area (junk modelling). No plastic please. 

• Children need to bring their book bag with their reading record and book into school every day. 

• If you haven’t already, please provide your child with a PE kit. 

• Please provide your child with 1 portion of fruit or vegetables (no crackers, breadsticks etc) in a named pot every day. 

• When dropping your child off at school in the morning, please make sure they do not play with the resources that have been carefully placed for learning later in the day.

• On your way into/out of school, please do not let your child climb on and walk along the wall. Due to safety reasons, we cannot allow 30 children to walk on during the school day. It is really difficult for children to have two different sets of rules, therefore we ask that no children walk on the wall. 

Tapestry observation 

We are asking parents to contribute to their child’s learning diary (Tapestry) for the first time! We will ask for one observation a week via the blog. You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers.

The focus this week is PSED. 

Please create an observation and send us a photo or video of something your child is good at. You can also write about it in the comments section. We will celebrate these observations and achievements on our interactive whiteboards during our PSED lesson.

Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices. 

Apple device 

Andriod device 

Desktop

 

Key text

The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.  

 

Book:	The Squirrels Who Squabbled
Vocabulary focus:	flighty, spontaneous, plentiful, convinced, wistfully, haste, intent, cease
At the end of the week, children will know:	that animals store food at certain times of the year for hibernation that sometimes friends squabble that some people in the world do not have enough food.
At the end of the week, children will be able to:	explain why sharing is important  talk about how greedy the squirrels were in the story describe the story setting and characters, saying how the characters were different.

 

Next week’s learning

Subject	This week’s learning objectives
Communication and language	To listen to longer stories and answer questions about a story they have just heard.
Personal, Social and Emotional development	To identify and express my feelings.
Physical development	Write Dance -To develop the gross and fine motor skills needed for writing.   PE - To develop running and stopping.
Phonics	To know the phonemes (sounds): y, z, zz, qu To know the common exception words : we, be
Reading	To blend words using known phonemes in phonics lessons and when reading books.  To say what the initial, middle and final sounds are in CVC words.  To say how many sounds there are in a word.
Writing	To label CVC words and write names in books
Maths	To Subitise amounts 1 - 4 (look at lots of different squares, work in 4s for a game and get into 4s, egg boxes cut into 4 - 2x2, tetronimos set, youcubed website for finger mazes, look at 4 on 5 frame
Understanding the World	To know that some animals store food for the winter. To know that some animals hibernate in the winter.
Expressive Arts and Design	DT - To plan and design a modelling using recycled materials