Welcome back to Autumn 2

We hope you have all had a fantastic half term and enjoyed lots of family time together.

The children made a fantastic start to F2 last half term and we were really proud at how well they all settled in to full time school. We will continue to have a huge focus on the children’s personal and social development as they continue to learn routines and establish new relationships. The children are becoming more confident each day and we love seeing their smiles as they greet us each morning.

The children have enjoyed getting to know their way around the new classroom and have been making good use of all of our resources. They have been particularly excited about our challenge lolly stick activities and earning lots of dojo points.

Our texts this half term are ‘The Little Red Hen’ and ‘The Leaf Thief’. We start Autumn 2 with ‘The Little Red Hen’ which gives the children lots of opportunities to use their phonics writing animal names and simple sentences. Our second text, ‘The Leaf Thief’ has a lovely autumn theme and enables us to explore the season in more depth. In maths, we will begin by continuing to explore 1,2,3,4 and 5 in lots of ways - we will look at counting, subitising, 1 more and 1 less and how we can make numbers in different ways. We will finish the half term looking at 4 sided shapes. We will continue our phonics lessons and the children will continue to learn more new phonemes and have lots of practise segmenting and blending words together.

Reading is key to all learning and we would encourage you all to share books daily with your children. Developing a love of reading from an early age is essential for every child. We will be continuing our guided reading sessions four times each week and the children will continue to bring a reading book home each Friday alongside a book for pleasure for you to read together. Please remember to practise the children’s phonics and tricky words with them as much as possible as this will really help them with their reading.

We will continue to use Class Dojo to communicate with parents - look out for messages posted on here which include key dates, activities to do at home and class updates. Please feel free to send any photos in of what the children have been up to outside of school, we love looking at these photos together in class.

A few quick reminders - PE Day is Wednesday, please ensure your child comes to school wearing their School PE Kit and pumps or trainers, the children will need a jacket or hoodie on top of their t-shirt please. Children also need to bring a coat every day - we do go out come rain or shine.

Children also need a water bottle each day.

Please make sure all uniform is labelled with your child’s name including their coat and water bottle.

We are excited to see the children make even more progress on the run up to Christmas.

As always our door is always open, please don’t sit at home worrying about anything, get in touch if you have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Jones, Mrs Lyon & Miss Ballard