Newsletter 19.12.14

Dear Parents,

It has been a wonderful ending to a fun first term in F2 class. Watching all the children perform in the last Christmas show was a sight to behold. Everyone was looking all festive and the children were all very confident performing in front of a big audience!

Before we end this term, take a look at all the things that we have done this week.

Masters of Learning
This term, we focused on 2 different areas - Internationalism and Enquiry. Children in F2 have taken part in our International Celebration and some of them have shown good understanding of where they are from or where their friends come from however two children in class were exceptionally aware of what this is about. David and Daiwik have been awarded the Masters of Learning for International this term.

On the other, Linh Lan have shown great enthusiasm asking questions about topics that interests her. She then is awarded the Master of Learning for Enquiry.

Last Wednesday afternoon, children were treated to a special Skype call from none other than the man of the hour, Father Christmas! All EYFS children gathered in the Multi Purpose Room to meet Santa Claus and ask him different questions. All were so excited seeing him in the screen talking to them and bringing them cheers.

As always, since we are all going to different places for the holidays may we ask you to upload/update your children's blogs with photographs of your travels so we can show these to the children when we come back after Christmas.

It was a lovely term in F2 and we are looking forward to see everybody when we come back to school on Monday 12th January 2015.

You will see below a slideshow of photos of this week's Christmas rehearsal and show. If you would like to download some of the photos, please click this link http://www.kizoa.com/Video-Maker/d16102649k4875656o1l1/ralph-the-reindeer-

Happy Holidays and safe travels to all.

Best regards,
Ms Grace and F2 team

Just a few reminders:

* Kindly bring a new set of toothpaste and toothbrush for your child next term. 

* Swimming kits (towels and swimming clothes) should be properly labelled with your child's name.

Ralph the Reindeer - Kizoa Video Maker

Wednesday's Library time

Dear Parents,

Due to all our Christmas celebrations, we were unable to change library books today.  This will be done tomorrow.

Thanks you for all our delicious party food.  The children really enjoyed it!

Ms Gurvinder

No splash pool

Dear Parents,

There will be no splash pool sessions this week.

Kind Regards,

Gurvinder

Newsletter WE 12.12.14.

Dear Parents,

It's been a fun 'Christmassy' week!  We have been practising for our Christmas performance 'Ralph the Reindeer'.  We hope you can come to see it next week on Wednesday at 8.30 am in the gym.

As part of our performance costumes, please can we ask you to provide the following

-Red or green top (t-shirt or shirt)

-Brown leggings, tights, shorts or trousers.  

The children should come to school on the day of the performance wearing their costumes.   Please ensure they have a change of uniform in their bags.  Please also ensure that your child arrives promptly at school at 8 am.

The children have been enjoying joining in with stories such as 'Aliens Love Underpants' and 'When Lizzie Met Santa' this week.  Our main language focus this week (and most of this term) has been encouraging children to ask and answer questions.

The children have been playing a Christmas teddy bear counting game on the IWB using www.topmarks.co.uk 
Please have a look at home!

Reminders

-We will be holding our class Christmas party on Wednesday.  Everyone should have received a note with your child's choice of food and the quantity needed.  Please let us know if you haven't received it.

-Friday 19th December is the last day of term 1.  We will finish school at 11.30 am on this day.

Please see below for photos.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind Regards,

Gurvinder and the F2 team.

IWB counting game.

Christmas crafts- making a Christmas tree.

Exploring Arctic animals and ice in the tuff spot with Mr Richard. 

Christmas counting game.

Exploring green rice.

Christmas Celebrations

F2 Christmas Party

Dear Parents,

To celebrate the end of a fun term of learning, F2 will be holding a class Christmas party on Wednesday 17^th December in the morning.  We are asking all children to bring in a small plate of food on this day.  A note will be sent home with your child's choice of food this week.

Please note that we only need the quantity requested and do not need enough for the whole class.    

Ralph the Reindeer Christmas Show

As part of our performance costumes, please can we ask you to provide the following

-Red or green top (t-shirt or shirt)

-Brown leggings, tights, shorts or trousers.  

The children should come to school on the day of the performance wearing their costumes.   Please ensure they have a change of uniform in their bags.

Please also ensure that your child arrives promptly at school at 8 am.

Do let us know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Ms Gurvinder & Ms Grace

Newsletter WE 5th December

Dear Parents,

We have been busy preparing for our EYFS Christmas show this week, which will take place on Wednesday 17th December.  The children have been learning lots of Christmas songs with Mr Robbie.

In the classroom, the children have been enjoying playing in Santa's Workshop.  They have been dressing up as Santa, making and wrapping presents as well as making wrapping paper.  We have been focusing on Christmas stories such as 'Panta Clause loves Christmas', Spot's Christmas', Duck and Goose: It's Time for Christmas' and 'Snowmen at Christmas'.

We introduced our special Advent calender at the beginning of the week.  Everyday a different child is asked to trim Santa's beard.  Some children have been asking why Santa has a beard!

We have introduced a range of Christmas vocabulary to the children such as:

-Father Christmas/Santa
-Snowman
-Presents
-Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer
-Christmas tree
-Baubles
-Star
-Stocking

We will be continuing with our Christmas theme until the end of the term.  We will also be having a class Christmas party in the last week.  More details to follow soon.

Decorating the class Christmas tree.

Exploring peppermint shaving cream.

Listening to Christmas music.

Using the bikes and trikes in the big playground.

Decorating Christmas trees.

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Exploring the 'snow' in the tuff spot.

EYFS Christmas Show

TX Christmas Musical Market

TX Christmas Musical Market

Thursday 18th December 2014, 6:00pm

Please join us for a special Christmas celebration in the TX playground and foyer. 

• Christmas Market with many wonderful Christmas crafts all made by the children from EYFS to year 6 for you to buy and take home.
• Musical performances by the TX orchestra, choirs, brass group and many more.
• Refreshments and home-made baking

Parents please note: This is a non-seated event. We ask when you are watching the performances to please stand - this is not a formal concert. The Musical Market is a relaxed free-flowing event and parents can choose to stand at the stage or wander over to the market at any time.

We also ask parents to please be prepared for the weather - December is usually dry in the evenings, however in case of rain, please bring an umbrella.

We hope to see many of you there supporting our wonderful talented children on the evening of 18th December!

Newsletter 28.11.14

Dear Parents,

This week we continued on talking about more countries that the children in F2 are from. We started with Vietnam as Ms Thuy taught them how to make fresh spring rolls. The children laid prawn, prok and noodles on the rice paper and rolled it carefully. On the other hand, Hai Nhi's mum talked about the 'lotus' flower and Emily's mum taught as a Vietnamese song and dance.

Last Tuesday, Caleb's mum showed as an interesting presentation about Malaysia and a Malaysian kite called 'Wau'.

Children in F2 took part in a Japanese 'Sumo' wrestling last Wednesday. They even wore a 'sumo' wrestling costume and tried their might to 'wrestle' with one another. It was good fun!

Eason's mum shared us some interesting resources from Australia that included a book about different animals from the land down under. Children also tasted 'TimTam' an Australian favourite!

It was indeed a busy week for everybody and all of us learnt so much from all the countries that we looked at for the past two weeks. Thank you to everybody who came and shared their time with us. We all enjoyed the activities you did.

May we remind everybody about the EYFS Family Morning that will take place tomorrow from 8.30-10.30 am at TX Campus. We hope to see you tomorrow.

Thank you and have a lovely weekend.

Regards,
Ms Grace and F2 Team

Week ending 21.11.14.

Dear Parents,

It's been a fun week across the school and not least of all in F2!  We have been learning to say 'Where are you from?' and 'Where do you live?' and talking about our nationalities as well as living in HCM City.  Please have a look at our photos below.  F2 will continue with its International Celebrations next week.

Daiwik's mum shared an Indian story with us and some yummy rice!

David's mum shared an Italian game called 'Tombola' as well as some delicious Italian biscuits.

Ms Kirstine's Y6 class came to show us how to make penguins from plasticine as part of their focus on Antarctica
for International Week.

The children enjoyed making Indian Rangoli patterns.

Sophie was very pleased to be the first to win David's mum's Tombola game.

Caleb enjoyed wearing the hat he had made at the International fair.

We visited the Vietnam room.

Buddy class activities.

Visiting the International fair.

Thank you for your support this week.  Please don't forget that our EYFS Family Morning will be taking place on Saturday 29th November.  We hope you can come!

Have a lovely weekend.

Ms Gurvinder and the F2 team.

International Celebrations

Dear Parents,

A few updates for this week...

-There were no splash pool sessions today as we were busy practising for the parade.

-We look forward to seeing you all at the International Parade tomorrow (on the 4th floor in the gym).  Please make sure you arrive at 8 am with your child dressed in their costume.  Parents are asked to drop their child off as usual in the F2 classroom before going to the gym.

-Please make sure your child has 4 tokens for the photo booth tomorrow if you would like them to take part.

Thank you for all your lovely gifts and well wishes for Teacher's Day :)

Kind Regards,

Ms Gurvinder and the F2 team.

EYFS Family Morning

We hope to see you there!

Tokens for International Celebration - Photobooth

Dear Parents,

Thank you for buying your children some tokens for today's International Fair. They all enjoyed taking part in different activities in the foyer. On Friday November 21, we will have a Photo Booth in the foyer and children can have their photos taken with friends. Token for this cost 20,000VND. Please see us to check how many more token are left for your children. You can buy more tokens from Ms Oanh in the office. All money collected from the International Fair and Photo Booth will go to charity.

Regards,
F2 Teachers

Newsletter 14.11.2014

Dear Parents,

This week children in F2 continued on exploring different activities about Space. Although, we have taken down our Space role play area, children were treated to some other activities such as aliens art and craft,  moon sand in the tuff spot and counting body parts of an alien in the Maths area. 

Outside, children have tried climbing the 'Dome' and they have been showing good skill in doing this activity. Some of them were able to climb with ease and some needed support so we will continue doing this activity to develop all the children's climbing skill.

Next week, the whole school will take part in a 3-day International Celebration. F2 on the other hand will extend this activity to 2 weeks to ensure that children will get good understanding of each nationality representing the children in class. Please see the previous blog post about the timetable for the next 2 weeks in class.

On Wednesday 19th November, all children will participate in an International Fair and Buffet. Children will get to take part in different games and arts and crafts activities from different countries. Parents may buy tokens for their children from Ms Oanh in the office. 

On Friday 21st November, all children should come to school wearing their countries traditional costumes. We will take part in the Flag Parade in the hall with the rest of the school. Please make sure that you come to school in time. The parade will start at 8am and parenrs are encouraged to come and watch.

Should you have any questions please feel free to come and speak to us.

Have a lovely weekend.

Regards,

Ms Grace and F2 Team

International Celebration (timetable)

 If you would like to come and share some information about your child's home country, please feel free to speak to us.

Thank you and looking forward to see you in the classroom.

Newsletter WE 7th November

Dear Parents,

There has been a lot going on in F2 this week!  Please see below:

-This was our last week focusing on the story 'Whatever Next!' By Jill Murphy.  Our group activities included acting out the story, drawing our favourite pictures from the story and and putting the main events in order.  We finished our week with a picnic on the 'Moon'.  We ate and drank the same things as Baby Bear and Owl: honey sandwiches, apples, biscuits and orange juice.  We listened to Space music as we enjoyed our picnic.  We finished the morning by watching the 'Whatever Next' animation.  If you do a Google search for the story, you can watch it at home. Next week, we will be reading 'Meg on the Moon' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski.

-The children continued exploring our Space role play by dressing up as a rocket and also as astronauts.  We will continue with this role play area next week.  The children have been busy making paper mache planets with Ms Claudine to make our Space role play area even more fantastic!

-There are 2 Space apps we have been using on the iPads this week: 'Space Journey' and 'Space Journey'.  Both are free if you would like to try them at home.

-The children have been extending their physical skills by playing on an obstacle course in the foyer.  They practised crawling, jumping, hopping and rolling.

-We have been reading a story called 'Mr Tongue' with the class. This is a simple story that focuses on the children's articulation skills and helps the children to make sounds accurately.

-Eason and Seven will be taking home the 'All About Me' bags this weekend.  Please remember that we love to see what the children have been up to on the weekends.  Please do upload their photos onto blogs over the weekend.

Notices

-Interim reports will go home on Friday 14th November.
-TX will be holding our annual 'International Celebration' week beginning 17th November.  More information to follow.

Please see below for photos.  Thanks for your continuing support.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind Regards,

Gurvinder and the F2 team.