Week 3 of 1st Half Autumn Term @ Beddington
18th – 22nd September 2023
All children born between 1st September and 31st August 2020 are due to start primary school in September 2024.
Applications opened on 1st September 23 and will close 15th January 2024. Please look at the council website for more information.
https://www.sutton.gov.uk/w/applying-to-start-primary-school-1
We have started welcoming our new families this week and normal days have resumed.
We will be listening to pirate stories this week and playing some pirate games, activities and songs as International Talk Like a Pirate Day is on the 19th September.
Please make sure you have applied sun cream before preschool, that your child is dressed for the weather (including appropriate shoes) and has a named water bottle and hat. Thankyou!
Our new start/finish times are 8.30/9am – 12.00/2.30pm.
Our 2-a-day stories for the week ahead …
Caterpillar group will be joining in with sound cards and:
Gruffalo, Where Are You? by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Pesky Pirates! by Stephen Holmes
Butterfly group will be joining in with Jolly phonics rhymes and…
Ten Little Pirates by Mike Brownlow & Simon Rickerty
Pirate Pete by Nick Sharratt
Next week’s Jolly Phonics letter sounds are “t” and “p”
The short songs can be found on the internet.
Below are links to some online resources to help with some home learning and action songs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zks4kmn
or go to YouTube and search:
sing along with Britt Adams (for lots of 10-minute videos of both familiar and new action songs)
Taken from the Government guidelines;
Hungry Little Minds - provides simple fun, activities for parents of kids aged 0 to 5 to do at home to support their early learning.
BBC Tiny Happy People - activities for babies, toddlers and children.