Hello everyone....

  Hello everyone.....

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend in the beautiful sunshine.

On Monday we shared the story of Real Superheros which is all about people who help us in our community. Everyone shared their ideas about people who help or have helped them. We also had PE in the main school hall and did some great climbing using the appartus. We also had great fun playing hop skotch outside in the garden. 

On Tuesday we had our kickboxing session and we went on a monkey adventure which involved moving in a variety of ways. We practiced our guard and stance. We had to avoid the flying birds. We practiced our foot work. 

On Wednesday morning a group of children visited the local care home for a singsong, story and cake. The other group of children had PE in the school hall and used the climbing apartus. The children are really confident now and are able to climb high. In the afternoon we had Relax kids. We explored our touch sense using pebbles, scarves, artificial grass with our feet.  

On Thursday we shared the story Emergency and talked about Emergency vechicles and how they help us. We then went on to draw an emergency vechicle and make one using junk modelling. 

On Friday we continued making emergency vechicles using a variety of materials and techniques. In the afternoon we had Razz. We did some amazing movement and dance and drama. 

 Throughout the week we have enjoyed constructing with the small plastic bricks, magnetic lego, balancing tree. In the number area  we have been exploring numerals and threading them onto a string. We have also enjoyed exploring the baby lotion with cotton budds. In the small world area we have been playing with the princesses, fairies, princes and castle. On our finger frenzy table this week we have been  playing with the geo boards and elastic bands. We made lots of diffrent shapes.We have enjoyed mark making using chalk and black paper and the whiteboards and pens. On the water tray we have been exploring the letters and we had a great idea of blowing them along the water and also making them into boats.  Also we are getting really good at rhyming and completing the rhyming game. We have really enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful sunshine.

We have now learnt all the Read Write Inc pictures and we are now focusing on Fred Frog. Fred Frog can only say sounds and no words. We have been playing lots of games with Fred. We have been doing lots of rhyming games and stories. 

During group time this week we talked about Reggie the Resilient tortoise friend Rose the Resourceful Spider. 

How can you help your children establish Resourcefulness at home?

Resourcefulness is all about being an independent and imaginative learner, being ready to learn in
different ways and using all of the resources available to help you. The skills for life long learning
that we are aiming to instil are those of Questioning - being curious, going deeper; Making
Links - looking for ideas and concepts that connect together and are meaningful; Imagining - using your minds eye to help you learn; Reasoning - thinking methodically and Capitalising - making the best of resources available.

You can do this through play and day to day activities at home by:

•Encourage questions.
•Demonstrate making links between different ideas.
•Keep imagination alive and celebrate and value a love of adventure. •Help children to find ways of using resources such as reference books, dictionaries, the Internet. 

Some pictures from the week..

For the next two weeks we are going to be exploring people who help us along with our parents/carers jobs. We would love it if you would like to come in and talk about your job. We have lots of lovely activities planned to support the above.

Home Learning

- Can you go on a Spring Hunt and learn 5 new words about Spring?

-Can you practice your ball skills? Can you catch a large ball? Kick a large ball? Throw a large ball? Challenge- Can you do it with a smaller ball?

-Can you begin to hear the initial sounds in words?

-Can you play this Fred Frog game..

Speaking like Fred helps children to understand that words are made up of sounds. Use Fred Talk throughout the day to help children practise blending sounds together. 

Fred says… 1. Say: Fred says put your hands on your h-e-d. Ask children to repeat. Pause to allow children to jump in with the whole word and do the action. 2. Say: h-e-d, hed. Ask children to repeat. Repeat with: b-a-k, t-u-m, l-e-g, h-a-n-d, f-u-t, n-ee, r-u-n, s-k-i-p, h-o-p, s-t-o-p

Notices

Lovely to have our mystery readers last week. Thank you for joining us. For the next three weeks we are going to be exploring people who help us and our parents/carers jobs. If you would like to come in and talk about your job please speak to Julia for a day and time.

On Wednesday we have got our story time session from 3.10pm. Everyone welcome. 

On Friday it is Red Nose Day. Children welcome to come dressed in red. Suggested donation £1.00.

On Saturday it is Stay and Play 10.00-11.30am everyone welcome. Younger and older siblings welcome.

We are a NUT FREE SCHOOL, so please can we remind our families that the children have no products containing nuts in their lunchbox.

Uniform

To order uniform for Pre-school please see link below. We also have some second hand uniform available.

DEP School wear shop

(DORSET EMBROIDERY AND PRINTWEAR LTD)

W: https://www.dorsetprintwear.com/the-prince-of-wales-school

T: 01305 750292

E: sales@dorsetprintwear.co.uk

Powsa Events:-

Eyes down for 4pm in Main school hall. Refreshments and hot dogs avaiable.

Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.

We are all really looking forward to seeing you all and here's to an exciting and great week  full of fun and adventures.

Julia, Colleen, Sharon, Lauren, Lauren