Also supporting SAPLING CLASS are

Mr McNab - Computer Science

Mr Pilkington - PE and Breakfast Club

Mrs Whalley - Play Therapist

Saplings Class

A very warm welcome to our Saplings class home page.

We hope you have had a lovely half term and we are excited to start back for out new half term all based around the topic of Christmas!

We have so much planned in for this next half term, from a Christmas Stay and Play, to Christmas/Winter crafts, Christmas dinners and parties amongst so mucn more.

We will continue to instill in them our Christian values (kindness, love, empathy, patience, forgiveness, trust, respect and honesty) within our school and class community, so that they may live a life of happiness, joy and fulfillment.

We know the great value that your children hold and we are thankful for the trust that you have given us at this important stage of their lives.

Key School Information

Physical Education (PE)

On Wednesday, please can children bring their PE kits into school so they may get changed in class as part of one of our early learning goals. 

Phonics/Reading

Please bring book bags into school everyday. Home readers are changed on a Friday. It is absolutely essential that books are read at home and encouraging your children to become enthusiastic readers will make a fantastic difference to their progress within school. School books will begin to be given out over the next few weeks, however in some cases children will be sent home with a QR code with videos to watch all around their phonics.

Curricula overview and Homework

To find out more about what our Saplings are up in this half term see the image below to view our Curricula Overview.

There is also a home work grid to work through this half term that we expect to be completed over the course of the next 5 weeks. Some of these tasks may seem unrelated to what may be expected as your average homework, but this is really not the case. In Reception we focus on three prime areas of learning, which include, Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional developement and Physical Development and so, homework tasks are set to help in these areas, aswell as the more expected areas of Maths and English.

Our Topic

Our topic this half term is 'Christmas' and we are very excited to see you all again!

Thank you

If there is anything I can help with please email parents@st-marymagdalens.lancs.sch.uk or our office team and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Mr Walne, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Jones