Find out what TURTLE CLASS have been learning

Welcome!

A warm welcome to Turtle Class from Mrs Tribe, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Williams and Mr Luckhurst.

P.E. days

Our PE day is Wednesday. Please send your children to school wearing their PE clothes on this day.

Our phonics session for parents

Thank you to everyone who came to Mrs Tribe's phonics session for parents. It was brilliant to see so many of you. The resources discussed are attached below:

Our timetable

This is what Turtle Class learn and when:

Upcoming events

We continue to try and be as open, supportive and welcoming to parents and carers as possible. As part of this ethos, we hold numerous events for parents and carers throughout the school year but you may wish to note these key dates:

Monday 23rd February - Children return to school

Thursday 26th February - Donate Day

Monday 2nd March - The start of ‘Readathon’ (4 weeks)

Wednesday 4th March - The new date for the Turtle Class church trip

Thursday 5th March - World Book Day

Friday 6th March - 8:55am to 9:25am, EYFS, Year 1 & Year 2 reading with parents and carers

Monday 9th March - The start of science week

Wednesday 11th March - Careers Day: BACA visiting Reception to Year 5

Friday 13th March - Science Fair (Parents and carers are invited to join at 2:30pm)

Tuesday 17th March - Parent consultations

Wednesday 18th March - 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Parents of children in KS1 drama club are invited to watch

Tuesday 24th March - Reception spring walk in Stanmer Park

Thursday 26th March - Parent consultations

Friday 27th March - Last day of term

Monday 13th April - Children return to school

Friday 17th April - 8:55am to 9:25am, EYFS, Year 1 & Year 2 reading with parents and carers

You can discuss the curriculum with your child

The overview for our learning this half-term is ‘SUPER HEROES’. This will focus around three books: 'Look Up' by Nathan Byron, 'Super Duper You' by Sophy Henn and 'Super Worm' by Julia Donaldson. These will help the children learn about the being super and resilient in different ways, and will also help them to learn that we all have super hero qualities, such as being super kind, super helpful, super brave, super strong and super clever!  This will stimulate our circle time session around 'we are special and unique in our own individual way’, and we will use and say the sentence ‘I am super because ….’

Please spend a few minutes chatting with your child and ask them some simple questions such as: Do they know any Super Heroes? What super hero magic would like to have and why? Who are the super heroes that help us every day? What might you like to be when you are grown up? Would you like to be an astronaut and visit space?  What might you see there?   

Write your child’s ideas, questions and comments in the speech bubble below and return this back to the Turtle Class team.

Click here to find out how you can support your child at home.

The overview for our spring term learning is here:

You can also help children with their phonics learning using the sounds below:

The Early Learning Goals

Our curriculum supports our children to meet the Early Learning Goals. You can find out more below:

The Reception Baseline Assessment

Children in reception will be participating in the reception baseline assessment within the first 6 weeks of them starting. The purpose of the assessment is to provide the starting point for a progress measure that will help parents understand how well schools support their pupils to progress between reception and year 6.

The reception baseline assessment is a short, interactive and practical assessment of your child’s early literacy, communication, language and mathematics skills when they begin school, using materials that most children of your child’s age will be familiar with. You can find an information leaflet below: