Reception Weekly Review

  Prime Areas

(Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal, Social and Emotional Development). 

We have had a fantastic week in Reception this week with assembly, a trip to Balham Library and lots of fun! We have had an under the sea and circus theme this week which has linked to our English text. The children were involved in lots of circus activities including ball games, tight ropes, hula hoops and juggling. In our circle times this week we looked at positive behaviour for learning and the importance of looking and listening during carpet sessions. We also all enjoyed making cards for Fathers day cards for important people in our lives.

Sticky Dance 

WOW! What a fantastic morning we had at Balham library on Wednesday morning at Sticky Dance. We loved being able to move, groove, touch, see and listen to the performance. A big thanks to all the parents who came and helped us! We also got to listen to the librarian read some funny stories.

    English

This week our text was a familiar book ‘ The Singing Mermaid’ written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Lydia Monk. The children enjoyed learning about the circus and the different acts we could perform if we were part of the circus. 

We also spent some time learning about rhyming words and had a go at writing a few sentences as a class that included rhyme. Each child had a turn at writing a sentence about if they were in the circus..

  Phonics and Reading Practice

This week in Phonics we looked at Phase 4 longer words and compound words. We learnt that a compound word is 2 words joined together to make a new word. We even had a turn at writing some compound words. Our tricky words this week were ‘there,when,what and one’.

This week we had two reading practices due to our special sticky dance trip.

  Maths 

In maths this week we looked at comparison. We looked at 2 quantities and decided which group had more than, fewer than or if they were equal. We remembered that it wasn’t about the size, colour of object and only about the number. On Friday, we used 3D shapes to make a complex structure and used shapes to create characters in 'The Singing Mermaid'.

Information and Key Dates

Information

Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you

 Key Dates

 Wandsworth Fringe festival of the Sticky Dance Show at Balham Library – Wednesday 11th June 2025 (parent volunteers needed please!)

 Lower Showing Assembly:

Friday 13th  June

Friday 27th  June

 End of Year Celebration

Wednesday 15th July.

Miss Roborgh, Mrs Cunningham, Miss Banton, Tara and Angie 

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 Things we need

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks