Welcome to the Early Years Foundation Stage!

Welcome back to Great Berry! We hope you have had a nice relaxing Christmas break with your families. The children are settling into their new classes incredibly well and we are so pleased to see their smiley faces coming into school every morning. They are making us so proud with their beautiful sitting, and how well they are learning all of our rules and routines.

This half-term our topics will include Transport, Superheroes, Spring and Chinese New Year. Every week we will upload a Weekly Overview, which will give you an insight into some of the activities we will be doing in school that week.

Reminders:

Please note that the drop off time for the children in the mornings is 8:30am. The children are now in school on a full time basis and so will need to collected at 3pm. Please can we ask that you stay on the yellow path and walk all the way along to the end of the playground (close to the KS2 climbing frame) where the Early Years classes are lined up. This is so we can make sure to see you and send your child directly to you. Then, please use the one way system and go out of the gate. 

Should you need to contact us please use the Year Group Email system.  

Our Year Group E-mail Address is: earlyyears@greatberry.essex.sch.uk

This email address will be checked regularly, however if there is any important information that you need to let us know quickly please contact the school office so that they can pass this onto the class teachers.

Show and Tell

Each colour team will have an Show and Tell date once, each half term. This is an opportunity for your child to talk to their class about somewhere they have been, something they have achieved or bring in and show a toy they like to play with. If your child is going to bring in a toy or object from home please can you make sure the item goes into a named plastic bag. 

Before your child's Show and Tell day, it may be helpful to talk to them in preparation for what they could tell their friends. Please feel free to send in a covering note so that we can support them with this. There will be a chance for your child to answer questions from their peers about what they have shared.

The colour group dates for this half term are as follows:

Friday 14th January- Ruby (red) Group

Friday 21st January- Amber (yellow) Group

Friday 28th January- Emerald (green) Group

Friday 4th February- Sapphire (blue) Group

Homework

Homework/Write and Tell books will be given out on a Friday. They will need to be returned by the following Tuesday. Ideas for the homework will be available on the Weekly Overviews. Each week please give feedback on how your child found the activities, by leaving a short comment with their homework.

Keep checking back on this page for more updates and to see some of our brilliant work.

Please note that jewellery is not allowed to be worn in school. This includes hoop earrings, bracelets, anklets and necklaces. Only small studs are allowed, although these have to be removed on PE days.

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