Calipso EYFS
Welcome to Reception
Teacher: Miss Screen
Teaching Assistant: Miss Smith
Autumn Term 1 Key Reminders:
Calipso have PE on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, please come to school in school uniform and bring your labelled PE kit in a labelled bag.
PE Uniform is as follows:
Shorts (blue or black)
Plain t-shirt (white)
School jumper or fleece may be worn in cold weather
Tracksuits may be worn in cold weather
Daps (plimsolls) or trainers
Forest Schools - NO forest schools this term.
Bike ability - NO bike ability this term.
Book Bags
Your child will be given a book bag during week 1. Please send your child’s book bag in with them every day. This will allow us to send home letters and prevent them from losing things from the classroom to home. Replacement book bags can be bought from the PTA for £7.
Reading Books
Your child will bring home a new reading practice book every Monday. This will be a fully decodable book. We encourage you to listen to your child read at least 3 times a week and record it in their reading record. Your child will also bring home a sharing book that they have chosen themselves from our library; this is a book we would like you to enjoy reading to your child.
Homework
Homework will be set at the start of every term, this will be stuck in their homework book. There will be 6-8 activities to complete throughout the term. Each term will have a specific date to have them completed by. The children will also have a phonics book for you to practice their phonics together at home.
Water Bottles
Please can you provide your child with a labelled water bottle at the start of the year. It will need to be named. We will send the water bottle home daily to be washed. Only water should be provided. We will fill the bottles with fresh water throughout the day.
Milk and Fruit
The children will receive a piece of free fruit in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. They will also receive a carton of milk until they turn 5. You can order milk for them when they are 5 so that they can continue to enjoy it. Please speak to the office if you would like to order milk following your child’s 5th birthday. If your child does not like a variety of fruit, then you are welcome to send in a piece of fruit that you know they will enjoy. We are a healthy school so no crisps, chocolate or junk food please.
Family Friday’s
There is NO family Friday this term.
PE kits
The children will be doing PE on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Children can come into school wearing their PE kit. We are hoping that most PE will happen outside therefore they will need to wear warmer clothes in the colder weather. Also, the children will be staying in their kit all day so being warm and comfortable is important! Please can you remove your child’s earrings on a Tuesday and Wednesday. On non PE days, children must wear full and correct school uniform including NO jewellery. PE kit will stay in school on your child's peg until the end of each term when it will be sent home to be washed.
Maths Games
On a Tuesday your child will be given a maths games to play at home. We encourage you to play the game with your child to practice essential maths skills. The game must be return to school on the following Wednesday, when it will be swapped for a different game. Please ensure a prompt return of the game to ensure all children get a new game each week.
Attendance
Attendance matters for doing well in school: academically, socially, and emotionally. As a parent/carer you are responsible for making sure your child develops the habit of regular attendance – every day counts! Punctuality is also highly important. Pupils who arrive late to school are not only losing out on learning but disrupt the learning of others when they arrive late into the learning that has already started. Thank you for your continued support with this matter.
Thank you
Miss Screen & Miss Smith
For further information regarding Calipso Class please click on the links below:
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| EYFS KIRFs Yorkley.pdf | Download |
