Spring Term 1 2021

Please find all your child’s home learning on Tapestry.

If you need to contact your child’s class teacher, then please leave a message on tapestry and we will get back to you .

Mrs Fenty will be unavailable on Thursdays due to being in school for the key worker children.

Miss Harvey will be unavailable on Tuesdays due to being in school for the key worker children and also on Thursdays and Fridays due to her working pattern.

Autumn Term 2 2020

Paddington & Elephant and Castle have been working extremely hard since starting school in September. They have been enjoying daily phonics, literacy and maths, along with learning through their interests in their choosing time. In Reception we are very lucky that we can take our learning both indoors and outdoors. The children have loved exploring and sharing adventures in the classroom, the outside area, the hall in P.E lessons, the art classroom and also the forest area. 

With the children enjoying daily phonics they are beginning to apply these skills in other areas. Writing in a variety of ways such as labels, letters, short words and even having a go at super sentences. It is fantastic to see their enthusiasm to write. Reception are also off to a flying start with their reading. Segmenting and blending new words that they come across, recognising tricky words and beginning to build up fluency. We have introduced the hashtag on tapestry #readingrecord and have enjoyed seeing all our children reading at home. 

Along with all these new skills, the children have also learnt to make new friends, solve conflicts and have all grown in confidence and independence. 

This half term we are kicking off our learning with the topic of

'Smells, Spells, Lotions and Potions'

We will be exploring key texts such as:

Room on The Broom 

Funny Bones 

Rama and Sita

The Jolly Christmas Postman 

The Christmas Story

Please click on the title of each story to view an interactive version of the story. 

We will be exploring key themes such as:

Halloween

Bonfire night

Diwali

Thanksgiving

Christmas