Green Dragon Primary School

Look out of the window. What is the weather doing today? Will it be the same tomorrow or the day after that? Weather can change all the time. It can be raining, snowing, windy or sunny. There are lots of different types of weather and each one can make a big difference to what we can do, what we wear and even how we feel. Weather happens everywhere in the world and it’s what makes where we live special. As we become weather watchers and learn more about the weather, we will discover there’s lots of fun to be had, whatever the weather!

Maths: White Rose

Alive in 5! 

• Introducing zero
• Comparing numbers to 5
• Compare mass  - heavier, lighter
• Compare capacity - more than, less than, full, empty, less full, more full

:Literacy:

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Please read with your child for 10 minutes every evening.

Encourage them to point to each letter and say its sound, and then to blend them together to read the whole word. Please remember to leave these books in your child’s book bag.

Children should now know the following GPCs and tricky words.

Understanding of the world

Explore the weather with your child at home looking at the days of the week. Perhaps you could look in newspapers or on the weather forecast on TV. Here is an example from a newspaper to talk about:

Talk about your family. Look at family photos.

-Who is in your family?

-What countries do they come from?

-What special things do you and your family like to do together?

-Do you belong to a religion or follow any particular routines?

Read with your child daily!

Talk about strategies you use to calm down when you’re feeling upset or angry and help your child to practise some techniques.

• Count to 10 and breathe deeply.
• Think about some things that make you happy.
• Focus on the things that you can hear, smell, see and touch.

Tapestry is a great tool for accessing information about your child’s time in school and enjoy seeing them progress in Reception. If you need any support with Tapestry do let us know.

PE

Centaur 1 & Centaur 2: Friday

Please ensure clothing is all name labelled.

Home Learning

Home learning is posted on Tapestry every Friday and is due in by the following Wednesday. Please check Tapestry regularly for updates and additional memos.

Dates:

• Tuesday 9th^th January 2024 – children return to school.
• Half term: Monday 12^th February – Friday 16^th February 2024.
• Open Evenings: Wednesday and Thursday 20th and 21st March 2024
• Last day of spring term: Thursday 28th March 2024 at 2pm.

For more information, please email your class teacher. centaur@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

Each day your child will have access to outdoor learning so we encourage you to send in a pair of wellington boots that can be kept in school.

Do remember to book your child’s lunch via parent pay. We offer the children a daily snack - fruit and sandwiches. The children also have the oppourtunity to have free milk which can booked using the cool milk website. If you do not want your child to have milk please remember to remove them from the list. Children also have their own water bottle in school.

CALLING ALL RECEPTION PARENTS AND NURSERY PARENTS!

Tapestry

• Click here to find out more about Tapestry at Green Dragon Primary School.
• Please use Tapestry as a tool to share your children’s knowledge and understanding at home. https://tapestryjournal.com/

At Green Dragon Primary School, we believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics (SSP) programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

As a result, all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words as they read. At Green Dragon Primary School we also model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside of the phonics lesson and across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on language development for our children because we know that speaking and listening are crucial skills for reading and writing in all subjects.

Here is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Please click here to view our 'Phonics and Reading' page. The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos so you can see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

If you go to the Cbeebies website, your child can find out all kinds of things and play games. If you find any otherreally good sites – do let us know! 

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase3Menu.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks​

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html