Current diary dates
- 17 Nov 23 - Children in Need
- 24 Nov 23 - Jaguar Class Worship 9.00am
- 24 Nov 23 - FOSJ - Wear your PJs to school and bring a donation for the Christmas Fair
- 1 Dec 23 - Elephant Class Worship 9.00am
- 4 Dec 23 - Key Stage 1 Nativity Performance 6.00pm
- 5 Dec 23 - Key Stage 1 Nativity Performance 2.00pm
- 8 Dec 23 - FOSJ Christmas Fair at Sandham Hall 3.30pm to 5.30pm
- 13 Dec 23 - Wear Something Festive Day and Chartwells Christmas Lunch
- 14 Dec 23 - Christingle Service at St Giles' Church 9.15am
- 14 Dec 23 - FOSJ Christmas Party 3.30 to 4.30pm
- 15 Dec 23 - Last Day of term
- 2 Jan 24 - InSet Day
- 3 Jan 24 - First day of Spring Term
Welcome To Penguin Class
The Reception children at St James are taught by Mrs Douse (Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri), Mrs Rigby (Thursday am) and Forest School with Mrs Skirrow (Thursday pm).
Our classroom is bright and spacious and always full of fun and creativity. The children learn through a play-based curriculum, following their interests to become inquisitive and resilient life-long learners.
During our first week in school we worked together to make our team flag. The red section contains our fingerprints, we drove cars in paint to create the yellow section, printed with duplo to complete the blue and then collaged in-between before cutting and sticking our own penguin to skip across our rainbow.
We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage and work towards meeting Early Learning Goals in:
communication and language
physical development
personal, social and emotional development
literacy
mathematics
understanding the world
expressive arts and design
Take a look at the learning planned for this term:
WOW Work
We have been exploring our feelings through the book The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. This links to our school use of the Zones of Regulation which provides an emotional vocabulary, linked to colours, enabling the children to manage their emotions and develop self-regulation.
Reading
We love to read in Penguin Class and share lots of high quality texts to develop our vocabulary and enjoyment of books. So far, as part of our Talk Through Stories Curriculum, we have read Hugless Dougless, Ravi's Roar and Lost and Found.
Every day we have a fun phonics session where we learn to read with Fred. We follow the Read Write Inc programme and our children make rapid progress to become confident and fluent readers.