Reception Weekly Review

  Prime Areas

(Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal, Social and Emotional Development). 

Another week of learning fun and laughter in Reception. The fine weather meant we could make the most of our outdoor learning environment and it was great to see all of the child-led activities and games outside. A particular highlight was International Afternoon where the children went to different classrooms on rotation to learn about the communities and cultures represented at Ravenstone. Thank you to all of the parents who gave up their time to support with this. Another highlight was our trip to Tooting Bec Common. The children loved sharing poetry, their lunch and the playground. Once again, your support is invaluable. It really was a special day. Thank you.

PSED/PATHs

In our Circle Time session this week we talked about the Ravenstone Value of Hannah Happy and shared ideas about what makes each of us happy and linking to our English book, what we can do to cheer ourselves up if we are not feeling happy.

    English   

This week we explored the book ‘Wolf and Bear’ written and illustrated by Kate Rolfe. The book follows a bear who feels sad and explored the role of friendship. We linked this to our work in PATHs about feelings and regulation and the children wrote about how the Bear felt and though about what they could do if a friend felt sad.

 Phonics and Reading Practice

Phase 4 learning continues in Phonics and we have kept our focus on CVCC words and begun looking at CCVC words with short vowel sounds in them like ‘smell’, ‘shrink’, ‘plug’, ‘drink’ or ‘smash’. Our new Tricky Words are ‘some’ ‘come’ ‘love’ ‘do.’ Unfortunately due to SATs in Year 6 Reading Practice was cancelled this week but we will continue as normal next week.

  Maths 

This week, we looked at composition to 10. We looked at the pairs of numbers that combine to give us this total and used the stem sentence, 10 is made of x and x, and x and x make 10. (For example, 10 is made of 7 and 3 and 7 and 3 make 10. We also explored comparative weights by using balancing scales to work out whether items were heavier or lighter than each other.

Information and Key Dates

Information

Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you

 Key Dates

Wandsworth Fringe festival of the Sticky Dance Show at Balham Library – Wednesday 11th June 2025 (parent volunteers needed please!)

 Lower Showing Assembly:

Friday 23rd  May.

Friday 13th  June

Friday 27th  June

 End of Year Celebration

Wednesday 15th July.

Thanks for all your support this week, particularly with our trip and International Afternoon. We couldn’t do it without you.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Roborgh, Mrs Cunningham, Miss Banton, Tara and Angie 

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 Things we need

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks