Welcome to Reception Class
Within our Reception year, learning takes place through seven different areas; Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design, Physical Development, Understanding the World, Mathematics, Personal Social and Emotional Development and Literacy.
Summer Term
This Term our topics will be... How does your garden grow? Space and Under and over the sea.
Miss Lloyd (Class Teachers)
Ms Ball (HLTA) , Ms Burton (TA)
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff (after school) write in the communication book, send a message on Class Dojo or email.
Reminders
- Children do not need snacks, fruit is provided in school (If your child will only eat certain fruits they may bring something from home (fruit only please).
- If your child is happy to play in the playground with their friends in the morning before the bell rings please do encourage this and stand outside the gates or fence if possible. A member of the reception team will be out on the playground at this time. Once the bell rings at 8.30am the children will line up and you are free to leave.
- Once handed out, reading books will be changed twice a week, we would please encourage you to read with your child 5x a week at home.
- Please encourage your child to practise putting their coat and shoes on independently. This will benefit the children hugely and will help them to become more independent as the year progresses.
- Please remember sun hats and where possible, use an all day sunscreen that does not need to be reapplied during the day.
- PE will be on THURSDAYS please can children come to school wearing their PE Kit.
- Forest School will be on TUESDAYS - they need to wear something that is appropriate. Please provide waterproof trousers to put over the top of Joggers etc, coat and wellies. Please let us know if you can help with Forest School on a Tuesday morning.
- Please label EVERYTHING!
As Mathematicians we will be learning to –
- Explore numbers to 20 and beyond.
- Adding and taking away.
- Explore 2D and 2D shapes.
- Share and group.
- Explore pattern and position.
- Make connections.
Communication and Language
We will develop our use of language across all areas of the curriculum and use storytelling to begin to orally tell new stories. We will be exploring lots of different areas of our classroom, as well as forest school, to help develop our language.
Continuous Provision
We will continue to provide a wealth of learning activities each week for the children to access. All of these activities are linked to the 7 areas of learning and also incorporate the children's own interests.
As theologians we will be learning about –
What places are special and why?
Which stories are special and why?
We will develop our understanding that some places are special to members of their community and recognise that people have different beliefs, celebrating special times in different ways. We will think about places that are special to us and describe why they are special. We will look at some stories that are special to Christians and some other faiths. We will explore some of the things these stories teach believers and similarities and differences between people’s special stories.
Important dates for the diary –
13th April - First day of term
14th April - Parents Evening
14th April – Optometrist
16th April - Parents Evening
29th April – Class Photographs
4th May – Bank Holiday
15th May - French Day - children encouraged to wear red, white and blue and bring in French Food.
20th May - Summer Disco
22nd May - Fun Run on Castle Green
Monday 25th May - Friday 29th May - HALF TERM
2nd July - Whole school moving up morning
3rd July - Class R and Class 6 Buddy Trip to Barry Beach
7th July - KS1 and Class R - Sports Day
Monday 13th - Wednesday 15th July - DT Festival
16th July - End of year Celebration Worship
16th July - St. James Has Got Talent
17th July- last day of term
Outdoors
Children will have access to the outdoor area throughout the whole day despite the weather. Please make sure that they come to school with appropriate clothing including a warm coat when the weather turns and sun cream and a hat for those warm sunny days.
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to keep you up to date with your child's learning journey. Please remember to check on Class Dojo to see what we have been learning about. Remember to add your own photos and comments about achievements out of school – these are fantastic for us to see.
As writers we will be learning to –
revise the Phase 2 and 3 sounds, becoming really confident in using them for both reading and writing. We will be learning new stories, through our story telling. We will be using our writing to label pictures, write captions and simple sentences.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will use Circle Times to talk about our feelings and how our actions affect others.
We will learn about… feelings , our role within our families some of the jobs that we do. • How to make friends • How it feels to be a friend and make a friend • What to do if I feel lonely s • How to solve problems and stay friends • The impact of unkind words • How to use Calm Me time to manage my feelings • How to be a good friend
We will be learning about our school values and how we all work together within the St. James community.
Phonics
We will be using our scheme, Supersonic Phonic Friends.
This term we will continue to re-cap sounds from Phase 2 and 3. The children will continue to practise this daily through reading and writing activities. We will begin to look at simple sentences in our writing.
This is a useful link to hearing how to pronounce the sounds we will be learning this term...
Understanding the World
We will make observations of plants and explain why some things occur and talk about changes. We will plant our own seeds and discuss what might happen to them. We will explore other plants and explore the natural world around us. We will also continue to describe what we can see, hear and feel outside and understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around us. We will also explore our role in caring for the world.
Physical Development
In PE we will be developing our skills in movement, experimenting with different ways of moving. We will begin to develop our dance this term, recognising actions can be performed to music and copy, repeat and perform some basic actions to music.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be learning to play different musical instruments and explore the sounds that they can make. We will explore colour mixing and art work by famous artists.
