F3 Phonics Coffee Morning

Throughout the first term of F3 we have been teaching your children the first stages of being able to read and write.  We do this during a lesson called Phonics.  Please come along to our F3 Phonics coffee morning next Wednesday where we will talk about how your child is learning to read and write.  We will also be telling you how you can help your child to read at home. This is a really valuable opportunity for you to understand how your child is learning.

We hope you can make it!  

F3 Parent Lunch!

Thank you to all of the adults that were able to join their child yesterday for lunch in the school canteen.  The children were very happy to see you at school during the day and we hope you enjoyed it as much as they did.  A full write up of the event and more photographs will be posted on Mr Ian's weekly newsletter on Friday.  Until then here are a few pictures to showcase a lovely meal time.

Term 2 Clubs

CHQ Club Sign-up for Term 2

The time has nearly come to look forward to your club choices in Term 2. The Term 2 CHQ club booklet will be available from Friday 9th December. You will have the weekend to look through the club choices and then CHQ will open online for sign up on Monday 12th December at 4pm.

Now is the time to get prepared with your CHQ login details. You will need your child's username and password to log in and sign up for the clubs. Sign up will close again on Friday 16th December.  Ms Emma will be hosting a drop in session on Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15thDecember at 8am in foyer. Clubs will be selected randomly by the CHQ system. Please visit or email Ms Emma in the office before Monday 12th December if you are unsure of your login details; Ms Emma will be able to help you identify these.

CHQ link on the school’s website

EYFS family morning

Dear Parents,

We hope by now that you have received a letter with details of this year’s EYFS family morning.  The children will be busy this week baking snacks to sell in preparation for the event!

Here are a few reminders of the event;

• ·        Please return the slip on the letter you received last week stating that you are able to come to the morning and if you are bringing a friend.
• ·        The morning runs from 8:30am – 11:00am.
• ·        Tokens to purchase snacks on the day are currently for sale in the office from 2:30pm – 4:00pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for 10.000VND each.  All food and drink will be priced at 1 token and all money raised will be given to the ARC who are the EYFS community partner.  Additional tokens will be available to be purchased on the day.
• ·        If you would like to help run an activity on the day such as, face painting, nail art, food stall or arts and craft then please let your class rep know and they can assign you to an activity.  You will only have to help at this activity for part of the morning so that you can still be free to enjoy the rest of the morning with your family.
• ·        If you would like to donate any food for our bake sale then please let our class reps know what you will be bringing.  The food stall if for snacks so please bare this in mind when choosing your donation. 

A big thank you in advance for any one that can support this event or donate food and a special thank you to our class reps for their help and organisation.

We hope to see you all on Saturday!

Many thanks

Ms Hayley and Mr John 

Here are a few pictures from all the fun we had during last years family morning.  

THANK YOU!

The F3 teachers would like to say a huge THANK YOU for the generous gifts that they received for Teachers Day.

Your children are all awesome and it is a joy to teach them.  Thank you again for your continued support as parents.

Tea time for cloud X

While learning about the UK this week one thing the children learnt was that the English love a good cup of tea! Cloud X took on the biscuit dunking challenge while trying Ms Hayley's favorite hot drink.  Almost all the children enjoyed the taste of their tea dunked biscuits and many wanted a refil once their cup was empty. 

Making turtles with year 6

Tea on Cloud T

International Celebration 2016

Family Morning

If you would like to help in this event then please speak to your class teacher. 

We hope to see you all there! 

Weekly Update

International Week 

As you already know, next week is International week.  Across the school the children will be learning about different countries around the world.  F3 will be focusing on learning about the UK and exploring the differences between life there and life in Vietnam.

On Monday please dress the children in their national dress ready for the parade in the gym.  You are welcome to watch the parade with the rest of the school which will include a number of wonderful performances from the children and their parents.

On Wednesday the children will enjoy a national buffet for their lunch in the canteen.  Look out for pictures on next weeks blog!


Letter Formation

The children are continuing to learn how to form the letters of their name and the letters of the sounds they are learning correctly.  Below is a picture of a sound mat that we have in the classroom to support their writing development.  As you can see all of the letters have a picture that not only helps the children to identify the sound but also acts as a reminder of how to write the letter correctly.  In your child's home school dairy you will find a page that include the rhymes for each sound, explaining how to write it.  At the moment we are still focusing on writing lower case letters, except for the first letter of their name.   If you would like any more information about supporting you children with their writing at home then please feel free to speak to Ms Hayley or Mr John.



Have a lovely weekend
The F3 team :-)

World Nursery Rhyme Week

This week the children have been celebrating 'World Nursery Rhyme Week'.  They are been drawing story maps of their favourite nursery rhymes and making up new ones of their own.  The children have also enjoyed watching video's of the EYFS children at BIS AP1 and BVIS singing nursery rhymes.  Ask your child to share their favourite rhyme with you at home, you could even challenge them to make up a new one of their own.

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came to join us on Thursday afternoon.  The children loved showing you around their classroom and showing you some of the activities they did this week.

Nursery Rhyme Week

Dear Parents,

This week is 'World Nursery Rhyme Week'.  The children in EYFS are learning lots of nursery rhymes and enjoying taking part in activities inspired by the rhymes.

We would like to invite you to the F3 classroom on Thursday 10th November at 2:00pm to share our learning with you.

The classroom will be full of the children's work and activities for you to do with them.

We hope to see you then.

Thank you for your continued support,

The F3 Team