Nativity

The children have been working hard on their lines for the Nativity. Some children have learned them off by heart already, which is wonderful.  Please help your child learn their line.  If your child has been absent, you will find their line on a small slip of paper in their homework folder.

Children should wear a Christmas t-shirt or jumper if possible with dark jeans/leggings/joggers. Please don’t supply Christmas headwear for the show as it can prevent the audience seeing children in the row behind.

Please bring clothes into school in a named bag by Monday 9^th December at the latest to ensure we have all clothes available for dress rehearsals that week.

Christmas shows are on Friday 13^th November at 10.30am and 1.45pm and those returning the ticket request form will receive tickets soon.

 

Growth Mindset

Today we talked about the need to persevere in learning and the importance of developing personal resilience when things get tough.

We continue to encourage a Growth Mindset throughout our learning through the language we use in class and through display and class routines. As we approach the end of phase 1 of our Growth Mindset Project, I will send home a new questionnaire for parents to complete.

Thank you in advance for completing this. It is part of the project to increase parental involvement in their child’s learning.  This is because we believe parental involvement is important in maximising the impact of classroom practice.  It is part of the project to provide an evidence base to the impact of communicating with and involving parents so thank you for the time taken to discuss Growth Mindset with your child and for completing the questionnaires provided.

Homework tasks this week

Growth Mindset

This is a talking task and there is no need to record or hand anything in.

Mapping

We have been learning to read plans and make plans of our class and playground.

We will continue our learning by reading simple maps. Please help your child create a simple map of the journey they make from home to school.

Think about roads and turns. You may mark on features such as roundabouts, crossings, traffic signals, bridges and other significant features that help your child know where they are in their journey. There will be an opportunity for children to share their work in class from Friday 6^th December.

There are no additional reading, spelling or maths homework tasks this week although all these areas of learning continue in class.

Thanks for your support with homework.

Please look out for letters in homework folders this week.

Ms Crawford