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Purple Mash

Dear Parents,

We are thrilled to inform you that your child has access to a fantastic range of online resources on Purple Mash.

Over the year, your child will be introduced to various activities on Purple Mash by their class teacher.

Through this they will learn to independently use the interactive whiteboard.

To explore these enriching materials, simply use your child's login, which you can find stuck inside their reading record. 

There are numerous engaging tasks linked to what we are covering in class. Scroll down to find out what we are learning this week.

Below there is also a parent guide from the Purple Mini Mash team - scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Happy exploring!

The Reception Team

Coats, Hats, Scarves and Gloves

As the weather changes and the children start to wear coats, hats, scarves and gloves:

• Please name all items of clothing.
• Teach your child how to put on their coat and gloves/mittens.
• Remind your child to look after their belongings.

PSED/RSHE Lesson 

In our RSHE/ PSED lesson (6.10.25) we discussed the NSPCC’s PANTS rules.

These are designed to teach pupils how to stay safe from sexual abuse, without giving explicit information or telling scary stories or even using the term “sexual abuse”. We will start the lesson by introducing the children to a character called Pantosaurus.

We  showed them this clip:

NSPCC Pantosaurus (2 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SzbMEVYiyg&t=120s

This is a film featuring NSPCC’s  friendly mascot Pantosaurus.

His catchy song covers the main points of PANTS and  introduce the topic to the children.

In the lesson, children will learn about the ‘PANTS’ acrostic, which stands for:

• Privates are private.
• Always remember your body belongs to you.
• No means no.
• Talk about secrets that upset you.
• Speak up, someone can help.

The lesson is fully age-appropriate.

The Talk PANTS campaign helps teachers and parents of 4-11 year-olds keep their children safe from abuse.

Like the Green Cross Code, it takes a potentially tricky subject and gives teachers and parents the tools to talk about it in an engaging and age-appropriate way.

Cooking & Gardening

We are proud to offer all pupils the opportunity to take part in cooking sessions during the school day. These sessions take place in the School House kitchen and are led by the class teacher.

Fresh ingredients from our school garden are used wherever possible, helping children learn about food, nutrition, and sustainability.

To support this programme, we ask for a voluntary annual contribution of £13.00, which covers the cost of additional ingredients for the full school year (September 2025 – July 2026).

• To contribute, please log into your MCAS account
• The fee can be found in the Clubs section and added to your basket

Your support helps us continue offering this valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you!

Healthy Snacks

To help keep energy levels up and minds focused, we encourage pupils to bring a healthy snack for break time.

Great options include:

• Fresh fruit or vegetables
• Plain rice cakes or crackers
• A small pot of dried fruit
• Cheese cubes or yoghurt (in a cool pack)

Please do not send sweets, chocolate, crisps, or fizzy drinks. Let’s work together to support healthy habits and happy learning!

Capturing 'Wow moments' at home

We value contributions from parents/carers of moments of achievement that have happened outside of school.   If you observe your child achieving something new or wonderful, then let one of the Reception team know by sending in a photo with a note or just singing their praises.  The wow moments are stuck in your child’s learning journey and support assessments throughout the year.  Feel free to send in as many as you would like, parents/carers usually complete a page of wow moments each half term. 

Reading Books, Key Words, Home Learning and Book Bags

At Fielding, we follow the Read Write Inc programme.

The type of ‘book’ your child receives will depend on their phonics knowledge.

• Some children will focus on learning the sounds of the alphabet.

• Some children will receive a sound blending book to help develop their blending skills.

• Some children will receive a book called ‘My Phonics Book’. A letter will be sent home with information of how this works.

• Some children will receive a reading book.

In addition to this, your child will choose their own picture book.

Your child is not expected to read this book. This book is to be shared with an adult for enjoyment and to help develop a child's comprehension skills.

All books will be changed once a week.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school every day.

Help your child to get into this routine.

Inside their book bag please make sure that you always have:

• picture book
• reading book
• reading record

Please look through the reading record, there is lots of useful information inside.

Please sign the reading record every week and write a comment about how your child is progressing with their reading.

Book Bags

Book bags will be going home on Monday 22^nd September.

Your child must bring their book bag to school every day.

Please make sure that you always have the following inside your child’s book bag:

• picture book
• reading book
• reading record

When you collect your child at the end of the day, please check that your child has their book bag with them.

Home Learning

Home Learning is linked to our phonics lessons; It is sent home on a Friday.

Please help your child to do the activity at home.

Please keep the home learning at home, do not send it back to school, it is for you to keep at home.

If you have any further questions, please talk to your class teacher.

English

Week commencing: 8.12.25

Our lessons this week will focus on the story of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs.

We will start by looking at key features of a book – title, author, illustrator.

We will talk about the front cover, back cover and blurb.

We will ask: Is this a fiction or non-fiction book? 

The Early Learning Goal in Literacy for reading requires the children to be able to understand the five key concepts about print:

• print has meaning
• print can have different purposes
• we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom
• the names of the different parts of a book
• page sequencing

The children will have a go at predicting the story. A prediction is a sensible guess, using clues from the title and front cover.

After looking at the book, we will talk about this book not having any text and how the pictures tell the story.

As a class we will make up our own sentences for the pictures and have a go at telling the story in our own words.

We will use a ‘Story S’ to remind children that stories have a beginning, middle and an end.

We will also ask children to think about the characters, setting and plot in the story. This follows on from our learning in the previous weeks on Helicopter stories.

Supporting your child at home: 

Talk about the story with your child.

What can your child tell you about the little boy and the snowman?

Do they have a favourite part of the story?

Can they re-tell the story in their own words?

If you do not have this story at home or are not familiar with it, any story will do.

These are all important skills that children need to learn.

The Early Learning Goal in Literacy for comprehension requires the children to be able to:

• Pay attention and respond to the pictures or the words
• Repeat words and phrases from familiar stories
• Ask questions about the book
• Makes comments and shares their own ideas
• Develop play around favourite stories using props
• Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary

Next week in English:

Our lessons will focus on Christmas stories and poems.

Maths

Week commencing:  8.12.25 & 15.12.25

For the next two weeks in maths we are going to explore matching and sorting.

First we will look at matching objects and learn how objects must look the same in order to match. 

We will look at and discuss a range of items, then agree whether they match or do not match.

Then we will start thinking about how we can sort a range of objects. 

With the children we will say:

'Sorting means we put objects in groups following a rule'.

We will look at the objects and think about what is the same, e.g. colour, shape, size, pattern ? 

We will then sort the items and talk about the different sets/groups. 

We will identify the criteria that we used to sort the objects and model how to do this, for example:

* I have sorted these cubes by colour. These cubes are green, these cubes are red etc. 

* I have put all the circles together in a set and the squares together in another set.

*I have sorted these objects into 'socks' and 'not socks'. 

Children enjoy sorting because it is a visual and practical activity. 

Children tend to find sorting by colour the easiest. However, we will look at different ways of sorting and encourage the children to think of their own criteria.

Some children will enjoy the challenge of trying to work out the criteria.

We will also make errors, so children have the opportunity to explain why something should not be in that set or group.

Supporting your child at home: 

Have a go at sorting some objects at home.

Talk about what criteria you used to sort.

Use objects your child is interested in to help engage and motivate them to talk about their sorting.

Keep learning addition facts up to 5!

Can your child recall any addition facts for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?

The Maths Number Early Learning Goal requires children to automatically recall addition facts up to 5. Start helping your child to learn some number bonds:

Remember, children need to be able to say the facts, not write the number sentence!

Next week in maths:

We will continue learning about sorting.

Parent workshops 

Thank you to the parents who were able to attend the curriculum workshops during this term. We have linked the training materials below.