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.
Spring Term
This Term our topic is 'All Creatures Great and Small'. We will learn about all kinds of wonderful creatures such as Dinosaurs, Farm animals, Mini beasts, Safari animals and many more.
Mrs Oliver & Miss Lloyd (Class Teachers)
Ms Ball, (HLTA) Mrs Olga, Miss Toomer (Class TAs)
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff (After School) write in the communication book, send a message on Tapestry 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)
- 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.
- PE will be on THURSDAYS please can children come to school wearing their PE Kit. As THURSDAYS will also be Forest School Day, they need to wear something that is appropriate for both. PE joggers and PE top would be suitable. Please provide waterproof trousers to put over the top of Joggers etc, coat and wellies.
As Mathematicians we will be learning to –
count objects, actions and sounds. We will continue to consolidate our number knowledge and begin to explore one more and one less than a given number. We will be doing this through short, whole class sessions as well as within our classroom provision. We will learn counting songs and rhymes to help us. We will be looking at forming different digits and matching these to the correct quantities. We will be solving problems linked to our maths.
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. Our topic this term is ‘All creatures great and small’.
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.
Religious Education
Why is the word ‘God’ special to Christians?
We will be looking at different religions and what they believe in. We will also be learning about the creation story and creating our own art work as part of this. By the end of the unit we hope children will understand. Christians believe God created the Earth. 2. Christians thank God for creation by praying and singing. 3. Christians can pray at any time but often pray on a Sunday in Church.
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.
Tapestry
We use Tapestry to keep you up to date with your child's learning journey. Please remember to check on tapestry 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 –
recognise and write our own name. We will build our fine motor skills through dough disco sessions and fine motor activities. We will explore mark making, both in our indoor and outdoor classrooms. We will experiment with different marks and how different materials create different marks.
Phonics
We will begin our phonics sessions this half term with looking at environmental sounds. We will explore different sounds, learn rhymes and begin to look at single letter correspondences. We will be using our scheme, Supersonic Phonic Friends and meeting lots of new characters
Understanding the World
We will continue to be exploring forest school and learning lots of new skills including climbing, building and throwing. We will be looking at difference festivals and how they are celebrated around the world.
This half term we will also get a Surprise delivery! Its going to be very EGGsiting!
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 sing different sounds, thinking about tempo and pitch. We will explore different ways of mark making, including printing and stencilling.
