Reception Message

Another week completed and we couldn’t be prouder of how amazing the children have been.

They have all worked so hard this week. We have been busy practising to write our names, counting and recognising numbers, phonics, drawing self-portraits and pictures of our family, had our first crossbar PE lesson, have been wonderful going down to the hall for our lunch, listening intently to lots of stories at storytime and of course playing with friends! Wow – we are sure everyone will be tired and ready for a well-earned rest at the weekend. Next week is sure to be as packed with fun as we start to learn about stories and castles.

As we also begin forest school on Wednesday afternoon, please remember to bring in some old clothing and waterproof trousers for wet weather, plus wellies in a separate kit bag. All kit needs to be named please.  We would appreciate if over the coming days, you could take the opportunity to practise with your child getting changed independently, so they can dress themselves for forest school. Of course we will help with anything tricky, but this will help enormously.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Reception Message

Please could we ask that all lunchboxes are clearly named, to ensure they collect the correct lunchbox from the trolley at lunchtime. Please remove lunchboxes from your child’s bag and place it on the lunch trolley situated outside the Reception classroom in the morning.

Could we also request that all uniform is named so that we can return misplaced items to the correct owner quickly.

Home/School communication books/Reading diaries have now been sent home. These will be sent home with a ‘share a story’ book daily. Please return these each day in the named plastic wallets they were provided in.

 

Finally, could we ask that children only bring in 1 named bookbag to school each day. We are limited on space in the cloakroom area and do not have space for additional large rucksacks. Children are only expected to bring in their reading diary and reading book each day. Additional kit bags on forest school day can be catered for as we have separate storage for this.

Thank you for your support.

The Reception Team.

Reception Message

Good evening,

You will have seen the update about the building work being completed on site at school currently. This work does mean that the outside play area of Reception has had to move many items out of the area whilst the work is being completed.

Please bear with us, and we will have the outside area back up to its usual standard as soon as we can. In the meantime, we will be making use of the immediate area outside our classrooms and bringing across the resources as we need them, as well as making use of the playground and jungle gym.

 

Welcome to Reception at Newdale!

Welcome to Reception!

We hope you had a lovely summer and we are really looking forward to welcoming you into school on Tuesday and seeing you in your smart new uniform. ☺️

Here is our information sheet again (attached) with reminders of staff, details of PE and Forest School days and a school map ready for the first week.

Class intro page Year R 2024-2025

We would also like to remind you of our pupil booklet, which can be found below on our class page. It would be great to spend a little time ahead of Tuesday, looking through this with your child to help prepare them.

Enjoy the last couple of days.
The Reception Team.

Art Day in Reception

Next Friday is Art Day! Children can come dressed down in clothes you do not mind getting a little mucky, or they could come ‘dressed to express’ and have an art themed outfit.

In Reception, we are going to be collaborating to create a large joint piece of work and in line with the rest of the school the theme is about reusing materials.

To support with this we would appreciate if, over the next week, you could send in any of the following materials you may have finished with:

Cake cases
Foil wrappers e./g chocolate or cereal bars
Cereal boxes or similar
Plastic bags

Please can we only have these items if they are still relatively clean so they can be used to create a large collage.
If you bring them to class, we can take them off your hands and store them ready for Friday.

 

In addition to this, KS2 are still looking to have enough tetra packs to complete an activity on Art Day too, so if you have any then please do send them in. Tetra packs are cartons (see image) that you may use at home. It will say whether they are tetrapacks on the side of the carton. We are happy to take these and pass them on too.

Many thanks
The Reception Team :)

Reception French Day Information

On Friday 5th July there will be a whole school French day for pupils from Nursery to Year 6.

 

Pupils can come into school dressed in red, white and blue or even create a costume inspired by a famous French landmark. Please participate as low-key as you would like (e.g reuse your white tops from our recent Macmillan event, or through hair ribbons etc.)

Throughout the day there will be various activities for the children to participate in, including our very own Reception ‘tour de France’ and learning the cancan dance! 😊 We will of course learn a little basic French in class too.

 

There will also be the option to have a French themed dinner which consists of quiche, ratatouille, and chocolate mousse, alongside the normal fish and chips which will be served.

If you would like to make a voluntary contribution of £2.00 to support the resources on the day, please log into parent pay.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

EYFS Macmillan Event Information

You will have seen the letter sent out recently regarding ‘Climb Against Cancer: Newdale walk up the Wrekin to raise money for Macmillan’, with details of how you can support this cause through sponsorship on our justgiving page.

On Tuesday 25th June, our very youngest pupils in Nursery and Reception will be taking part in a sponsored walk along a specially planned route around the school grounds. They will use our sports pitches and the play areas to form the shape of a heart to symbolise the love and support we all feel towards those affected by cancer, followed by ten laps around the sports pitch!

In line with the rest of the school, we would like children to come dressed in the chosen colours to represent the event.

Please can children come dressed in:

RECEPTION –  WHITE TOP

NURSERY – RED TOP 

We do have a small amount of school sports bibs should anyone need support.

We look forward to EYFS taking part and will be sure to share lots of photographs. Thank you for your continued support.

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