Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery

         Welcome to our Reception Classes

Teaching Team

Miss Oliver

Mrs Fitzgerald

Mrs Paynter

 

Support Staff

Miss Hardwick

Miss Shaw

Mrs Gardener

Mrs Edwards

Miss Draper

Week beginning: 16th December 2024

Squirrels Class weekly theme

Christmas

Free Christmas Tree Christmas Baubles illustration and picture


This week in Squirrels will be all things Christmas. The children have asked to do lots of crafts so we will be painting in the style of Mondrian, creating hats to wear, and making our own cloud dough too. The children have worked so hard this half term and blew us away last week with how hard they tried in their Phonics assessments, we are so very proud of each and every one of them. 

Owls Class weekly theme

Celebrating

 


The class have worked so hard this term we are celebrating all they have achieved so far. We have been blown away by their progress - well done all! We will be talking about different celebrations we have, remembering Diwali and all the birthdays we have celebrated so far. We will be writing cards and letters to our friends and family, practising and applying our phonetic knowledge to writing! Lots of craft activities for the children to choose too!

  

Christmas Carol Concert - Monday 16th December at 1pm

Thank you to those parents who have volunteered to help us walk to the church and back, we will leave school at 12:50 and return around 2:30.

We look forward to seeing lots of you there to celebrate.

 

Phonics Sounds of the Week

Poem of the Week

Word(s) of the Week Song of the Week

Recap of digraphs 

qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ng 

And tricky words 

Counting Christmas

 

When Santa got stuck up the chimney 

 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here

 

What the children say... 

In our EYFS unit we plan according to the children's interests. We spend time talking to the children, asking them what they already know and what they would like to find out.

 Our weekly themes are led by the children. Each week we share ideas and then pick a theme for the coming week.

Our PE days are:

  • Wednesday (am) Squirrels
  • Thursday (am) Owls 

 

RE learning 

In Religious Education, we will be learning about different celebrations and festivals which link to the heritage of some of the children. 

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