Hello all,

 This week in Reception, we began an exciting gardening project to create our very own vegetable patch in the Foundation area. The children were enthusiastic and eager to get involved as they helped to build a raised garden bed. They worked together to transfer the soil into the new bed, showing great teamwork.

On Thursday, the Reception children spent some time in their new Year 1 classroom with Mrs Flatley. They enjoyed exploring their new learning environment, meeting Mrs Flatley, and taking part in activities together. The children are super excited to begin this new chapter in their education, and it was wonderful to see their confidence and enthusiasm as they looked ahead to September.

Maths
In maths we continued with creating repeating patterns with the focus on creating own pattern rule. We also used positional language to build and compare scenes.

Phonics
This week in phonics we revisited tricky word and introduced words ending with- est e.g. brightest, sweetest, greenest.

This week, is the last week when we send the reading books home. Please return all the reading and library books to school.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Sheehan



















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