A big welcome!

Hello Class R,

We would love to welcome you to our St Matthew’s school family! This is such an exciting time for you and your families at the very start of your learning journey’s! We will do our utmost to ensure the transition to school is as smooth as possible for you all! 

Our Teddy Bear’s Picnic will be on Tuesday 3rd September from 1.30-2.30pm. Remember to bring a teddy to this if you wish to and you do not need to wear school uniform. Here you will get a chance to spend some time with your buddies. 

School will start on Wednesday 4th September and your child will be in for either a morning or an afternoon session. Just as a reminder, the session times are outlined below:
Morning session 9am- 11.30am
Afternoon session 12.30- 3pm

The week commencing Monday 9th September, all children will be in full time. 
There will be water and milk available throughout the day and children are able to help themselves to this to ensure they say hydrated and ready to learn! 

PE sessions will take place on a Wednesday afternoon so please on these days send your child into school wearing their PE kits. PE will start week commencing 16th September. The children will not require water bottles as we have fresh water and milk available during the day. 

We have so many exciting things planned in to look forward to for the term and to find out about the fun activities and lessons which will be taking place, you can have a read of the EYFS curriculum overview below where this is all outlined. 

We can’t wait to see all of your smiling faces in school! If anyone has any questions please let us know!

Mrs Hazeldine, Mrs Griffiths and Miss Chalmers
 
 

Spring Term

A big welcome back to school and I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas!

We have an exciting half term ahead and will be covering lots of different topics all linked to Transport. The books we will be looking at in our English lessons are The Naughty Bus and also You Can't take an Elephant on the Bus. These are both amazing books that I think you will enjoy reading and listening to. 

In RE we will be listening and learning about stories that Jesus heard and also stories that Jesus told. 

For understanding the world, we will be considering past and present and also transport over time. We will be thinking about how we get from one place to another and also will be looking at things from the past. 

PE will be staying the same and please continue to wear PE kits on this day.

We can't wait to start another term! 

Summer 1

Welcome back to Summer Term! We hope that you had a lovely holiday and you are feeling well rested and raring to go for another half term. This half term we will have our trip to Warrington Museum which will be very exciting.

Our overall topic this term is focusing on growing and animals and links into our Pathways book which is Silly Doggy which we can't wait to have a look at! In maths we are going to be starting to look at numbers up to 20 and we will of course be continuing on with our phonics learning alongside many other incredibly exciting subjects! You can have a look at the overview below for more information.

As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Summer 2

A big welcome back after the holidays! I hope that you all had a lovely half term whatever you got up to!

How is it that we have reached our final term of the year? Nearly the end of the children's first year in primary school! And what a year it has been- well done Reception!

We still have lots of lovely activities and learning that will take place over the next few weeks: we are starting a project looking at sunflowers- if anyone has or is growing any sunflowers at home feel free to send in a picture! We are focusing on people who help us and in our English learning we will be focusing on the book- Supertato! Which is very exciting!

In White Rose maths, we will be looking at sharing and grouping, mapping and deepening our learning and understanding with learning that has taken place so far this year. 

Alongside this we will be continuing our reading and phonics daily.

Of course, we will be doing a lot of work helping the children transition to Year 1 and making sure that they feel happy and confident with this move.

Any questions, please let us know!