We have come to the end of a wonderful first term in Reception. Where has the time gone? The boys are making tremendous progress and they definitely deserve a well earned rest with family and friends.

This week we have enjoyed many Christmas activities including Mufti day where many Christmas jumpers were featured!

We had a Christmas party with RGC:

A Christmas lunch with the rest of Pre-Prep:

  

And Christmas entertainment:

Here are some other things we have been doing:

After Christmas our new theme for Show and Tell will be ‘Our Holidays’. Could you please bring in a photograph of your family on Christmas day. Alternatively, please bring in a photograph of something else you did over the Christmas holidays.

The Starboys will be as follows:

Thursday: Alex Lee

Friday: Alex Sembi

You will have received some ‘Christmas Challenges’ in your book bags, directing you to the maths questions below. To reply to these questions, please comment by clicking the ‘heart’ on the left hand side of this blog post.

How many different ways can you make 10 and then 20 by counting on and using your fingers?

Using toys in your house can you line them up and find one more and one less than the amount you lined up?

Can you find these shapes in your house… square, triangle, circle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon and octagon?

 

Merry Christmas!

Miss Goring and Mrs MacNeill

 

The boys have been practising for their Christmas play all week and have been superb during each practice. Today and yesterday they sat, stood, sang and danced brilliantly to you all. A very big well done to them!

Our classrooms are full of glitter and numerous Christmas arts and crafts are being made. We hope you like receiving them all next week!

On Thursday afternoon we welcomed a visit from Mr De Vos (Chistopher’s father) who talked to the boys about Christmas in Belgium. They thoroughly enjoyed listening to interesting similarities and differences between England and Belgium and also receiving a chocolate coin!

Here are some other things we got up to:

The star boys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Rhys and Rory

Tuesday: Rufus and Sahil

Wednesday: Udodi and Zach

 

Please return your washed costume at the beginning of next week, including the plastic bag it was sent home in. On Thursday you will not need to bring in your bookbag.

 

Have a wonderful weekend

Miss Goring and Mrs MacNeill

 

 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We began our week listening to the Christmas story. We cut out and sequenced the pictures to retell the story and and wrote accompanying labels and captions to retell the story.

In Maths we reached the number 20 and practised writing and adding numbers together.

In phonics the boys are thoroughly enjoying learning the new digraphs. They are definitely understanding that digraphs have two letters make one sound.

During Expressive Arts and Design the boys are working hard practising for their Christmas Play and making Christmas crafts. The boys are also having lots of fun in our Christmas role play area, which is titled ‘Father Christmas’ workshop’.

During Advent, the boys are enjoying turning over baubles on our class Advent tree. Each boy is also receiving a chocolate coin.

Next week the starboys are as follows:

Monday: Jai

Tuesday: Jamie

Wednesday: Jude

Thursday: Louis

Friday: Mateo and Max.

We hope you enjoy the Christmas Fair and have a super weekend!

Miss Goring and Mrs MacNeill