TEACHER LOGIN PARENT LOGIN SCHOOL BLOGS Cookie Policy Teaching Assistants : Miss Sandison, Mrs Grunner and Miss Purnell Other teachers: Mrs Cox (French) Mr Farmer (PE) School Council Representatives: George Bagley and Kara Hodgkinson Class Governor: Julie Columbine-Corlett The Reception class is the final year of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Spring 2 Robots Topic- To develop the children's knowledge of different materials and 3D shapes we have planned our topic on robots linked to the schools recycling competition. Learning activities will include: Sorting and naming materials, exploring magnets and floating and sinking, making collages and talking about recycling Setting up a robot centre in the role-play area inside and a "big tip" recycling centre outside Stories about robots- listening, writing and mini- world play Beebot work Spring 1 Hats and Masks topic- The children have been choosing to make hats and masks so to develop this interest our topic for this half term will focus on stories and information about different types of hats. Planning has been completed with the children and is displayed on the class noticeboard. Learrning activities will include: Designing and making magician/ jester hats Setting up a hat shop in the role-play area Writing lists, labels and information about hats based on the books 'Hats Off' and ' Hats, Hats, Hats' Sizing, measuring and ordering hats Re-telling stories hats about hats- 'Mrs Honey's Hat' and 'Keith the cat with the magic hat' Please see the file 'Help your child at home' for some ideas of activities you can do with your child. Autumn 2 Animal topic- To further develop the children's knowledge and understanding about different types of animals following on from our work on the Gruffalo- sorting woodland animals. Planning has been completed with the children and is displayed on the class noticeboard. Learrning activities will include: Re-telling stories based on animals using toys and props e.g. Dear Zoo, Elmer Sorting animals- wild/tame, farm/zoo/jungle etc Speaking and listening activities- my pet, guess the animal Measuring and Ordering based on the book Lazy Ozzie Finding information about animals- books, computer Role-play vets and pet shop Autumn 1 We will begin by sharing the children's 'All About Me' booklets to find out what they have enjoyed doing during the summer and these will lead into our first topic. Planning will be displayed in the classroom. P.E will now be on a Thursday and Friday morning. Gruffalo topic- As lots of the children had visited the Gruffalo trail over the summer and were really eager to share the photos of themselves in the woods with the Gruffalo we have completed our first topic plan with the children, based on the Gruffalo (see class notice board). We have been on a Gruffalo hunt following the footprints in order to find the Gruffalo toys.These are some of the activities that we will be doing linked to our topic: listening to the Gruffalo/ Gruffalo's child stories- sequencing, talking about the characters, talking about the setting and joining in the repeated parts of the text re-telling the story using toys and props drawing pictures of the Gruffalo using the descriptive parts of the text making homes for the characters writing signposts and lists ordering characters by size making woodland mixtures for Gruffalo crumble baking Gruffalo cakes Gruffalo dance Maths Challenge cards Class Groups Class Buddies Show and Tell days Welcome morning powerpoint Class Timetable Autumn term 2 Letters and Sounds Spring Term 1 Help your child at home Developmental writing information for parents Spring Term 2 View all News items Recycling Competition View all blog items There are no blog items to display View all Gallery items Easter egg hunt Hand hygiene session Den building View all Calendar items R1 Stay and Play R1 Stay and Play R1 Stay and Play Hermitage Primary School Hermitage Drive Holmes Chapel Cheshire CW4 7NP Please contact Laura Bevan in the office who deals with queries from parents and/or members of the general public Tel: 01477 532838 Email: admin@hermitage.cheshire.sch.uk Easter Holidays Bid for extension plans New Headteacher 20/04/2015: School open for Summer Term 1 21/04/2015: Rachael Lindsay author visiting Yr3 21/04/2015: Yr4 Burwardsley Information Meeting for Parents Year 2 Great Fire of London Science morning and solar eclipse Eclipse March 2015 © Hermitage Primary School. All Rights Reserved. Website & VLE by School Spider