Whitchurch Primary
Autumn Term 2017
Dear Parents,
Foundation
Routine
Please bring children into school between 8.30-8.45am. Please encourage children to be independent by putting away their belongings (book bag, snack, water bottle), choosing their lunch option and putting up their coats and bag on their peg. Afterwards you may stay in the classroom to help settle your child to an activity. The activities the children can choose from will be displayed on Mrs Lane’s whiteboard. If your child is settled please feel free to leave. You must leave the classroom by 8.45am.
The Teaching Staff in Foundation are Mrs Lane and Mrs Pearce (TA). On Thursday afternoons Mrs Lane is released for planning time, Foundation will remain with Mrs O’Shea Warman and Mrs Pearce. Additionally, we may have a couple of other adult helpers who will join our team to help with various activities.
This term PE will happen daily. As written in the induction pack, please ensure your child has one pair of suitable shoes so we can do PE anywhere anytime. On Thursday mornings Foundation will be doing gymnastics on the apparatus. Please send your child into school in PE kit (tight shorts and a blue or white T-shirt, girls will need their hair tied back). We will change them back into school uniform after; please make sure they have their school uniform packed in a bag.
Each Wednesday afternoon Foundation will be going on a ‘Welly Walk’ or doing outdoor learning. They will need a waterproof coat and wellington boots. We ask that you buy your child a pair of wellington boots that can stay in school all year. They must be labelled clearly. Thank you.
Uniform- please remember your child should be dressed in comfortable clothes and shoes for school. We ask that they have one pair of daily shoes which are versatile. Foundation will be learning through play: using paints, sand, water, and mud. Their uniform will get dirty.
Contacting us
If we have any concerns about your child’s well-being or progress we will contact you.
However, if you have any concerns please come and talk to one of us, we are more than happy to help. Alternatively, please email Mrs Lane as she checks her emails daily (). If you cannot talk to us in person, please contact Lindsay in the office by phone or email and she will ensure the message is passed on.
Key date:
Friday 29th September
Foundation Welcome Assembly
You are invited to the Foundation Welcome Assembly. After dropping your child to school like normal, please then head to the school hall. At 9am the rest of the school will be joining you to welcome the Foundation children to Whitchurch. It is a super assembly and a wonderful chance to see the whole class and school.
Home Learning
At the end of each week Mrs Lane will send home a little note about what the children have been learning. Included will be information about how you can support your child at home.
Reading
This week your child should have been sent home with a story book. We ask you to read these stories with your child. Please spend time talking about the pictures and discussing what may happen next. The books we ask you to select yourselves are the books with the purple sticker (found in the right hand corner of our library).
When we feel your child is ready to read we will start them on our school reading scheme. This may happen soon, or for some children it may not happen until the summer term- please do not worry.
All children learn to read at different rates. It is not a race.
We are looking forward to an exciting term with your children!
Yours sincerely,
Jenny Lane and Lindsey Pearce