A reminder that children must come to school dressed in forest school clothes and bring wellies and waterproofs in a separate bag on a Monday please.

PE kits can also be worn on Tuesday and Thursday.

Reading diaries are to brought into school on a Friday and will be returned with new spellings on a Monday.

Thank you for your support.

Good Morning Reception!

We are counting down to seeing you back in school next Monday! We can’t wait to see you all again and for everyone to see their friends.

We have planned some exciting things for you to do next week. You will get to see out very own dinosaur egg at last.  We are keeping our fingers crossed the sunshine stays so we can also get playing outside everyday.

A reminder that Reception have:
FOREST SCHOOL MONDAY (Please come dressed in your forest school clothes and bring wellies in a carrier bag)
PE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY  (Please come dressed in PE kits on those days)

Our Reception year group email will still be up and running for the moment for messages to the staff team.
We ask for Reading diaries to be brought into school on a Friday to be checked and will be sent back home on a Monday, so you can continue to  practise spellings and record reading entries in throughout the week. Please for the moment do not send in reading diaries daily, and use the Reception email for messages to staff instead.

Thank you everybody for your support. If you have any questions, then please ask.
The Reception Team.

We are excited to announce that on Thursday 4th March it will be ‘World Book Day’! We thought we would post information about this so that you can get prepared if you so wish to.

This year, World Book Day will be a little different as most of you are at home…
We have decided to have a whole school theme based on Alice in Wonderland: a timeless tale for all ages.
Young Alice falls down a rabbit hole, only to find a world where animals talk, a mad hatter enjoys a never-ending tea party and croquet is played like you’ve never seen it before!

Next Thursday we will be having lots of ‘World Book Day’ fun during our live lessons and for those children who are in school.

For those of you that love to dress up, we would like to invite you to dress up for both our live lesson and in school. There are many characters to choose from, from the story ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or you could create some of the props instead—a giant playing card or clock (perfect to practise telling the time!). If you have your own special outfits from other stories already at home which you would like to dress up in and share with us instead you can. We understand that utilising what we already have at home is very important too. Equally, if dressing up is not your thing, why not draw the costumes you love the most instead? At the end of our live lesson on Thursday there will be the opportunity for you to share your costumes with the other children working at home and possibly in school too. I’m sure a costume/prop parade is something that you will all enjoy.

As part of our Alice in Wonderland themed day you may also like to create your own ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’. Enjoy jam tarts and jammy dodgers—why not make your own? Here is a child friendly recipe for you to follow: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/valentines-day-jam-tarts

We will be posting more information about this day next week and the exciting activities we have planned for you but thought we would give you prior warning about dressing up and the tea party so you can get prepared if you wish to beforehand.

We hope you can enjoy a day filled with jam tarts, party games and lots of fun and laughter!

The Reception Team

Dear parents and carers,

Teachers across the school are doing an amazing job of planning high quality work for your children to complete whilst at home (and for those in school).

As you are aware, the government has set very clear guidance regarding the amount of time which should be spent by children on schoolwork.

The amount of remote education should be a minimum of:

• key stage 1: 3 hours a day
• key stage 2: 4 hours a day

We have ensured that a wide range of subjects are covered within this time and are particularly mindful of the need to ensure children have time away from screens.

 That said, we remain keen to stress how vitally important it is that your child is reading every single day; and while at home, we have provided online resources to facilitate this.

In Reception we are using Oxford Owl. Your child can then select and read the books according to the coloured band that they would normally choose from at school. If you need a reminder of which coloured band they normally choose from, then please ask.

In addition to this, we set weekly reading challenges! We hope you are enjoying these. We love to see the results of your challenges that you have been sending in. We have also been posting storytimes. This is because we love to have a storyime in Reception everyday. We ask that you please build a storytime into your daily routine, perhaps at bedtime to keep the love of reading alive.

World Book Day 2021

 Next month on the 4^th March is the annual celebration of reading across the country!

As we expect to still be in a lockdown situation, Newdale would like to introduce an Alice in Wonderland whole school theme. We hope that by having one theme, this will support families who have children in multiple year groups.

More information will follow, but we would encourage dressing up for those who enjoy this and of course a mad hatter’s tea party of your own! We understand going out to buy a costume may be a challenge at the moment, so encourage you to get creative and put something together of your own at home just for fun. We will  be having a ‘hat’ theme so even just making a hat for the event to get into the spirit!

 Kind regards, 

The Year Reception team

Home Schooling Art Day 2021

You will have received the message about Art Day on Monday. For those children in school that day, we will also be doing the activities. I have attached the sheet of activities for you to see what we are doing.
Please can I draw your attention to the handprint art activity. For this children are welcome to bring in their Grandparents handprint, which as outlined on the sheet could be passed onto you virtually or through the post. We will need to quarantine these before we decorate. If you can’t receive a handprint then we can make our own representation. If you don’t have a grandparent, then this could be for some other special person you are missing at the moment.
As we won’t be able to hold our annual tea-party this year in school,  then after school you may also choose to take part in the suggested virtual tea-party too.
Thank you everybody. We can’t wait to get creative!

Hello Reception,

Hopefully you have seen the message with exciting news about our Virtual Pantomime treat tomorrow on our Google Classroom page.

Here is some information about the panto tomorrow. Please read this information carefully!
There are 300 ‘tickets’ for our panto showing tomorrow afternoon.
Only one device per household is permitted to log into teams using this link, so please use the most appropriate device for your family to watch. If you attempt to log in on more than one device, this will stop other families from accessing their ticket and being able to see the showing.
Once all 300 ‘tickets’ have been allocated, no further admissions into the showing are allowed.
The panto is performed via Microsoft Teams, so please make sure that your device is able to support this.  If you do not currently have access to Teams, please download this for free by following this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/download-app The company who are performing the panto are in charge of the technical side of the showing and will be hosting the meeting.
We will send you the link and more information tomorrow 😊

The link that we send tomorrow for the Pantomime will be sent via Google Classroom only, as we can not post this publicly via the website. Please ensure you look out for this information on the Reception Google Class Page tomorrow.

We can’t wait! :)