Dear Parents and Children of F1,

WELCOME to the first newsletter of the academic year. I hope you all had a fabulous summer and are looking forward to school starting on Wednesday 6th September.  We are so excited to meet all the new starters and welcome back the existing  children. We are sure you will love coming to Foundation One and meeting lots of new friends to play with. Welcome also to the parents/carers of our new children – we look forward to working with you during your child’s time at Newbold as your child learns and grows in our nurturing environment.

On your first day back, parents are welcome to stay as long as they feel is necessary. The first few days will be spent settling in and exploring their new learning environment, as well as familiarising themselves with the routines. I will be introducing a new 'playground buddy' system for outside break-times. Some year 5 and 6 children will take on the responsibility of making playground times a happy place for our new children.

Please remember, to bring in your fruit snack and drink every morning, along with a packed lunch, if staying for lunch, with enough food to last the afternoon.

*No nut products. Grapes sliced length ways*.

There will be a whole school induction evening on Wednesday 13th September - more details to follow via our internal email system. This will be an opportunity to learn more about our school. The headteacher will talk first , in the hall, then F1 parents will move into F1 and I will share all the important information about our class. Please make every effort to attend.

Please remember to bring in any outstanding completed paperwork on your first day. I will set you up on Tapestry (our online learning journey system) too. Mrs McCormac, Mrs Murphy and I will all be on hand to answer your questions on your first day (and beyond!).

For now, enjoy what's left of the holidays. We look forward to seeing you all next week.

Thank you

Kind Regards

Mrs Jennings

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our last half term of the academic year.

I am in the midst of writing school reports at the moment so look forward to you receiving them near the end of term.

We have some exciting dates coming up:

Fri 16th June - Our Fathers Day treat. - songs, videos and a stay and play from 11.30am - 12.30pm.
Fri 23rd June - A visit from Bracknell the fire crew at 10.30am
Tues 27th June - Our school trip to Odds Park Farm
Mon 3rd July - Sports Day (morning) (Rain date is Wed 5th)
Thur 6th July - International Day
Tues 14th July - transition session into F2 (9.30-10.30am)
Wed 19th July - Last day - finish at 12.30pm.

We have lots planned this half term and our caterpillars have arrived, We are watching them grow and they're getting bigger every day. We are learning all about the chrysalis process and emerging as butterflies. We hope to release all 10 butterflies in to Sylvia's Garden when they're ready to fly into the big wide world.

After half term

Dear F1 Parents,
Welcome back after February half term.
We will be welcoming some new children over the next few weeks, and this will result in our class reaching our maximum size of 24.
We continue our 3 ability-based phonic groups. They are going very well. We are lucky to have Megan to support the red group on a Monday and Friday, and Mrs T on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
We are introducing growing, and have planted some seeds already this week. We are continuing to do this and look forward to planting runner beans this week,
We have bought a worm house. This week I need the children's help to find worms to add into the worm house. We can then enjoy watching them at work. There will be other worm related activities too. We will also look for signs of Spring.
Of course, it's pancake day this week, so it's pancake making and decorating on Tuesday. Also, book day on Thursday so please dress-up as your favourite book character, and bring the corresponding book please.
Later on this term, we have Mothers Day and Easter activities to look forward to. More details to follow soon......

Dear F1 parents,

We would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas. Thank you for our wonderful cards and gifts. They were much appreciated.

We have had a great first term and all the children have now settled. Recently we have been busy with Christmas activities: nativity play, decorating cookies, party games and making gifts, cards and various creations. All the children have progressed well in phonics in our 2 groups. We have a new member of staff joining our F1 team in January. We will therefore have 3 phonic groups and your child's group will be communicated to you on the return to school. We also welcome more children in January and February.

I will be checking my emails over the holidays so please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you all in January. The first day back is Thursday 5th January 2017.

Best wishes

Mrs Jennings and the EY team.

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Hello new and existing parents of Foundation One class,

Welcome to a fresh new academic year. I hope you have had an enjoyable and relaxing summer.

Tuesday 6th is our first day and Mrs McCormac and I are very much looking forward to seeing you all. We are going to have a fun term as we learn and play together. You are very welcome to stay until 10am on the first day, if you wish, to help your child settle and chat to us. I will be setting up Tapestry for anyone who did not manage to set it up in the holidays. They are updating their software so I hope to have the process complete by Monday. I must alert you to the fact that I have a funeral to attend to on Tuesday so I will be leaving at 10.15am. The children will be left in the capable hands of Mrs McCormac, Miss Jones and Mrs Braun. Due to my absence, I will not be able to have the photos on the children's pegs for the Wednesday but I will ensure I do that as soon as I can. You can email me at any time on:

M-Jennings@newboldschool.co.uk

There will be a parent meeting on Wednesday 14th September at 6.30pm. Please make every effort to attend. There will be a whole school information session followed by a class meeting in my classroom. I will be sharing lots of important information plus introducing phonics.

PE will start from Wednesday so please can your child wear their PE kit that day , and every Wednesday (grey tracksuit with plain white tshirt and trainers).  Thank you.

I look forward to seeing you all next week.

Kind Regards

Mrs Jennings

New Term newsletter - April 2016

            12th April 2016

Dear Parents / Carers,

I hope you enjoyed your Easter break. I certainly did!

We look forward to the start of our final term and hope that the sunshine and warmer weather continues so we can learn and play outside as much as possible. I would like to continue the weekly walks to Newbold College Grounds to observe changes, insects and growth that the warmer climate will bring.

We will have some little visitors arriving this week: caterpillars which will hatch into butterflies. When the time is right, we will release them into their natural habitat, in Sylvia’s Garden. We look forward to learning more about growth and change.

EY Worship

We are going to look at 3 different stories over the next term

1. God saves Moses

2. God saves David

3. God saves Daniel

We discover and celebrate how God saved a baby Moses in a miraculous way. God needed a strong leader to show the world what he was like and Moses was the ideal man.

PE

We will also be doing as much PE outside as we can. Our plan for this term is to focus on team-work, along with some activities to prepare the children for our Sports Day later in the term. During the second half of this term, as well as our sports day, we will be celebrating international day and have a school trip to look forward to. More details to follow….

Phonics

We will continue to have our daily ability phonic groups We will do our best to help prepare your child’s holistic development for their move to F2/reception.

IMPORTANT DATE: THIS Thursday (14^th April) is a phonics workshop at 12.05 – 12.25pm and at 3.10-3.30pm in F2 classroom. It’s an opportunity to go through phonic sounds, understand more about what group your child is in and what we will be covering in an interactive way and a chance to ask me any questions. Please try to come along if you can, to one of them. It will start prompt.

Stay and Play

We look forward to welcoming as many parents as possible to our ‘stay-and-play’ session on Friday 17^th June at 11.30am – 12.30pm. This will give you an insight as to what your child enjoys doing at school and an opportunity to ask us any questions you may have. A reminder and more details will follow nearer the time.

There will be some new children starting over the next few weeks so we look forward to welcoming them.

As always, we welcome your feedback and enjoy working in partnership with you. Thank you for your continued support. Please remember that we have an open door policy so you are always welcome to chat to us.

God Bless

Best Regards

Mrs Jennings and the F1 team.

Mark-Making

Here are some photos taken during these last couple of weeks. I am undergoing my dissertation research for my final year of my BA (Hons) degree in Children's learning and development and have introduced some new ideas to encourage my reluctant boys to engage in mark-making by following their interests. It has been a fantastic few weeks exploring various fun ways to mark-make.....