Welcome to Term 3 in Foundation

Happy New Year and welcome back to school everybody!

We hope that all had a lovely Christmas with your families and friends.

We had some very wet weather last term. Let’s hope this term is a bit drier but please remember to wear a coat and wrap up warm ready for outside play and learning.

We will continue to observe the changes to the weather and our environment and enjoy lots of winter activities.

This term we will continue to introduce letters and their sounds during our Phonics. We have already learnt so many and are beginning to blend when reading. This term we will be developing our skills in spelling. Please support your child with their reading at home. We all have a reading book (please remember to write in your child’s reading planner) and we are applying our phonic skills when reading them.

Name writing is very important so we will continue to practise this.

In Drawing Club we will be developing our language and understanding of stories.

We have been using our Maths skills to deepen our knowledge of number, shape and pattern. We have and will continue to widen our knowledge of mathematical vocabulary.

Term 3 will be lots of fun and we will continue to be the best we can be…the best citizen, the best learner and the best friend.  

Please remember to name all of your child's clothing, including all PE Kit, hats and coats. Also remember that all jewellery needs to be removed for PE on Mondays.

Thank you. 

End of Term 2

What a busy term that was!

We have grown in confidence and have been very busy learning lots of new things.

We learnt all about Remembrance and we participated in the whole school Remembrance Day service.

 We learnt all about Guy Fawkes and how we celebrate bonfire night with our families.

We then learnt all about how we celebrate Christmas in England and performed our Nativity to our parents. We also sang our hearts out during the school carol concert

We have continued to learn lots of new story language during Drawing Club and are developing our drawing and writing.

We have been busy with numbers and we have been using the mathematical language more and fewer when comparing groups of objects.  

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas with your friends and families.

We look forward to seeing you in in Term 3.

The Foundation Team

Foundation Stage

Term 2

Well our first term at school certainly whizzed by and now we are at the beginning of

Term 2! 

As we head into Autumn/Winter the weather is changing. We will be observing the changes to the weather and our environment and enjoying lots of autumn activities.

We will learn about Guy Fawkes and also Remembrance Day.

We will continue to develop our fine motor skills through patterning and will introduce letter formation too.

This term we will continue to introduce letters and their sounds during our Phonics. We have already learnt so many and have begun to use these when blending to read. We will also use our phonic knowledge to segment to spell words when writing.

Parents and Carers, don’t forget that there is a Phonic Workshop on Wednesday 6^th November at 9.10am in the school hall where you will be able to find out more about how we teach phonics in school and how you can support your child at home.

We have been using our Maths skills and have learnt to subitise in Maths. We will be continuing to deepen our knowledge of number, shapes and pattern.

Term 2 is always such an exciting term as it is our Christmas term. We will be inviting our grown-ups back into school later in the term to enjoy a Christmas activity with us, and we will begin to rehearse our Nativity and songs ready to perform in December!

We also have Christmas jumper day, Christmas Dinner and party day to look forward to too.

We were lucky enough to enjoy some warm and sunny weather during Term 1 however we are expecting some chillier (and maybe wetter) weather this term so we will all need to remember our coats and wellies for when we are playing outside.

What a lot of exciting things to look forward to!

Reminders:

• Please ensure that children have a warm coat (hats, scarves and gloves) and sensible footwear for playing outdoors. 
• Please ensure your child has a pair of wellies in school where we will store them for the children to access when needed. We encourage all children to change into their wellies before going down to play in the sandpit or mud kitchen and we wear wellies during our weekly Forest School sessions.
• When you listen to your child read their reading book remember to sign or write a comment in their reading record so that we know they are ready to change it. 
• Our PE day is a Monday. Please ensure children wear School PE kit (Kit details can be found on the website and displayed on classroom doors) and that all jewellery is removed before coming to school. If earrings cannot be removed you can cover them with tape before coming to school. All long hair should be tied back.

End of Term 1

We are extremely proud of the Foundation children for each and every one of their successes during their first term at school.

They have developed a huge amount of independence and have shown us that they are ready for their journey at Minster.

During our first term we have begun Phonic inputs and the children are already recognising so many of the phonemes we have introduced. We have even begun to blend sounds to read!

In Maths, we have been deepening our understanding of number and have been looking at arrangements of objects. We have even realised that we do not always have to count as we can often see how many objects are in a group. This is called subitising and we are using this mathematical language when we are talking about what we see.

We have begun to develop our imaginations, vocabulary and language through Drawing Club. We are all really enjoying this and have seen some amazing drawings and ideas.

We learnt about the Hindu Festival of Light - 'Diwali'. This was an opportunity for us to learn about how Diwali is celebrated and we used our creative skills when making Diva Lamps, creating Rangoli Patterns and Mehndi Patterns. 

Well done to you all!

Thank you to all the Foundation children and to all your grown-ups for such a great start to our school year.

Have a wonderful half term holiday.

We are all looking forward to Term 2! 

Welcome to Foundation

A very warm welcome to all children, parents and carers.

Starting School is a big step for everyone and we are here to ensure that the transition into school is happy and as easy as can be.

Term 1 is all about settling in, building relationships with staff and children and becoming familiar with new surroundings and routines.

We are here to support children and their grown-ups with the start of their Minster journey.  

We have an open door policy so please do not hesitate to ask us any questions or share any concerns you may have.

We are looking forward to seeing you all. 

The Foundation Team