General Information

Staffing: 

Teachers: 

Nursery: Mrs O'Brien

Reception: Miss Atkin and Miss Hogg

Teaching Assistants: 

Nursery: Miss Mason

Reception: Mrs Mayfield and Miss Gregory

PE: 

Children will come to school dressed in their uniform and will bring their PE kit in a labelled bag.

Some PE sessions will take place outside unless there are extreme weather conditions i.e. ice, snow or heavy rain.

Please ensure they have the appropriate kit e.g. jogging bottoms/leggings and a jumper/hoodie.

Outdoor learning:

Over the Autumn and Spring Term it can get very cold, please ensure your child wears a warm coat, hat and gloves as we will be outdoors everyday.

Home Learning:

Please support your child by reading to them as often as possible. Practising writing their name and ensuring that children can form their letters.

Each week, children will be sent home an activity to be completed in their home learning book. This will be a range of activities relating to their current topic, reading, phonics or maths that parents can complete with their children. Please do share photographs of your children carrying out the tasks by e-mailing them to 

fs@woodhousewest.sheffield.sch.uk (Reception)

nursery@woodhousewest.sheffield.sch.uk (Nursery) or share them with the year group's Twitter page. 

Project/s:

Summer 1

At the bottom of the garden

This half term we are going to be focussing on mini beasts and exploring their habitats. We will be creating fact files about our favourite mini beasts and creating homes for them in our outdoor environment. We are going to be planting flowers to attract the many different mini beasts in our playground and focussing on how to care for them.

We will also be exploring pond life and the life cycles of frogs, focussing on amphibians, and creating artwork to surround this. We will be creating suncatchers and baking butterfly buns to link with our topic.

Books to enjoy at home: 

Summer 1

The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson

One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail's big plan that saves the day!

The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies by Kay Barnham

Follow the journey of a young boy and girl as they find out about insect life cycles. This beautifully illustrated picture book explores the life cycle process and explains each stage in detail.

Tad: A big story about a brave minibeast by Benji Davies

Meet Tad.

She’s the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters.

Although something else lives there too… BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too…

Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better? And if so, will Tad ever get there too?