Reception 2020-21
Welcome back from the Christmas holidays. Although things may be a little different we still have lots of fantastic learning available for the coming weeks. We are going to begin by basing our learning around the theme 'Dinosaurs'.
We have updated the seesaw app for today's activities. There will be further learning added daily.
Thank You
Class Information
Your teacher is Mrs Smith
Your teaching assistants are Miss Burns, Miss Blamey and Mrs Santonastasi
Our class name is St Mary's
Please keep checking the school website as any changes to arrangements will be on here.
Reminders:
The School Day
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Times |
Nursery |
Times: 08:30-2:45pm |
Reception |
Times: 08:30-2:45pm |
Key Stage 1
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Times: 08:40 – 3pm |
Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 |
Times: 08:50– 3:10pm |
Year 6 |
Times: 09:00 -3:20pm |
*some pupils may need a gradual or personalised timetable. This will be arranged with you directly.
Covid 19 Safety Measures
We have been working on various pre-opening strategies and the planning for running a school under socially distancing guidelines. Our priority is that everyone stays safe and that means there will be significant changes to what both the children, staff and yourselves as parents are used to. Whilst government guidelines state that it is unlikely that pupils can socially distance from each other, schools as employers are in a very unique position; we have to be able to both accept that, children will not social distance from each other, whilst at the same time trying to ensure that they do socially distance from staff.
To that end, I wanted to give you an overview of the risk management measures that we are implementing so that you can begin to support your child over what a return to school will look like.
Mini Schools
Start and finish times
Entry and exit to school for pupils:
EYFS |
Yellow |
KS1 |
Green |
Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 |
Blue |
Year 6 |
Pink |
More than one child
For further information on this please refer to the section on the website under 'News and Events' 'Corona Virus'. Thank you for your continued support during these difficult and unusual times.
Uniform
Please can I remind all parents that trainers are not school uniform and must not be worn to school. For full details on appropriate school uniform please see the policy section of the website.
PE
For the autumn term Reception will do PE as part of their daily outdoor learning opportunities. They will NOT need a specific PE kit as yet. Mrs Smith will inform parents when this changes.
Information from school uniform policy:
PE Kit: All children except for those in the Nursery MUST have a PE Kit in school with them. Girls and Boys |
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Winter |
Summer |
White polo shirt Navy Sweatshirt or cardigan Navy PE Shorts or Navy or black Jogging trousers Pumps or trainers |
White polo shirt Navy Sweatshirt or cardigan Navy PE Shorts Pumps or trainers |
Book folders and Homework
This week the children will begin to bring home their book folders. These go out on a Thursday with a book to share at home, phonics activities and their Learning Log (includes weekly homework challenge). These are to be returned to school on Mondays where they will then be quarantined and the activities changed over.
Outdoor Learning
Grace's Garden was opened in 2019 and has been a wonderful addition to our environment helping to support our EYFS children's curiosity and learning.
Our new Reception children have been using this space everyday. We love riding the bikes, exploring the spaces with our friends, climbing, role playing and investigating the world around us.
Our Learning
We have had a fantastic start to our school year.
We have enjoyed seeing our friends again and making new ones too.
We have spent time exploring our learning environment and engaging with lots of different activities.
Here are some of our favourites...
Exploring Mark Making, Drawing and Writing
Being Creative
Numbers and Shapes
Imaginative Play
Autumn Term
Our main topic for Autumn 2 is "Changes"
As part of this topic we will be talking about how we have already changed since starting Reception such as what we can do now that we couldn't do before. We will be looking at the changes around us as we move through autumn into winter, what similarities can we see and what differences. We will talk about any patterns and changes we discover. There will be a focus around the vocabulary of the seasons, weather and the natural environment. We will be exploring how to change colours and investigate different textures within our setting and of different objects and materials. As we move into the season of Advent we will discuss the changes we make as we prepare for Christmas.
We will be starting with the fantastic text 'Leaf Man' by Lois Ehlert.
Other texts that we will be sharing
We will also be learning about celebrations of the season including Bonfire Night, Diwali, All Saints, St Andrew's Day and Remembrance.
Literacy
In literacy, we will continue to consolidate our phase 1 phonics and introduce phase 2 where we look at letter sounds and begin to use these to read and write simple words. For more detailed information on the phonics phases please see the Letters and Sounds website (https://www.letters-and-sounds.com/). We will be doing lots of mark making in a variety of contexts and for varied purposes, encouraging the use of the letter formation as we learn them. We will be working hard on our speaking and listening skills, having paired discussions with our 'talk partners', telling our news and sharing lots of stories and rhymes. We will be using the Tales Toolkit approach ( https://talestoolkit.com/) to support shared narratives and independent story telling.
Maths
In Maths, our White Rose topics are 'It's Me 1,2,3' and 'Light and Dark'. As part of these we will be looking closely at how to represent numbers 1 to 5 including number formation, number bonds, accurate counting and matching numerals. We will be counting forwards and backwards, starting at different points and ordering numerals. We will be comparing sets using the vocabulary more and less. There will be a focus on positional language and the children's understanding of spatial awareness. We will also be exploring maths within the environment especially looking at shapes including 2D and 3D shapes.
Here is a list of websites/ apps and YouTube videos that we love and will help with our learning at home as well as school...
https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/
Phonics websites
Mr Mc is doing fun and interactive daily phonics lessons for children age 4-5. He focuses on new digraphs and has lots of different ways to revisit already learnt sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTcZnvuTeovlznioLRo0GOA/videos
https://monsterphonics.com/games/
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
Phonics apps
Jolly Phonics Lessons
Meet the alphablocks
Read with phonics games
First words sampler
Teach your monster to read
Phonics YouTube Videos
Tricky words songs phase 2, 3 and 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0&list=PLLhLRwvEimbCmlsD-JXwS2PqC0LvvIVTu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4u0TjAZ38&list=PLLhLRwvEimbCmlsD-JXwS2PqC0LvvIVTu&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4&list=PLLhLRwvEimbCmlsD-JXwS2PqC0LvvIVTu&index=4
Letter names and sound song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neItURLvyIQ
Alphablocks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qs3c0ehDvZkbiEbOj6Drg
Jack Hartman
https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann
Geraldine the Giraffe
https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris
Maths websites
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics/numeracy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
Maths Apps
Kids counting
Maths Tree
Bugs and Numbers
Busy things
Maths ages 3-5
Maths YouTube videos
Jack Hartman
https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann
Monkey floss counting backwards from 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hD26XpuUCc
2D shape song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqUejf3D0
3D shape song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q
Numberjacks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWKuiktSh-V3E4ysPU0VC3Q
Numberblocks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPlwvN0w4qFSP1FllALB92w
Counting by 10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmEe0-_ex8
Counting by 5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ4jV14Oz5I
El Nombre for number formation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6RGn7x4ks
Money song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps
Here is a sneaky peek at our topics...
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
Growth Mindset |
Show co-operation |
Stay curious |
Make it better |
Be resilient |
Challenge yourself |
Always be creative |
Topic: |
All About Me! |
Changes |
Dinosaurs and the Environment |
Space – Let’s Blast Off! |
Growth |
Superheroes |
PSHE Focus |
Eat Healthy |
Stay Safe |
Keep Fit |
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Real life experience |
Favourite Toy Day
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Autumn walk – local Park |
food tasting – Chinese New Year
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Wonder Dome
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Trip to local shops Chicks/ Caterpillars
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Local hero visit (police/ fire/ ambulance etc.) Super hero day |
Events and Celebrations |
Yom Kippur
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All Saints Bonfire Night Diwali St Andrews Remembrance Day Advent Christmas |
Chinese New Year St Patrick’s Day St David’s Day
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Lent Mothers’ Day Easter St George’s Day Bonnet Parade |
Pentecost
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Transition to Year 1 |
Religious Education |
Myself Welcome |
Birthday Other faiths |
Celebrating Gathering |
Growing Lenten Reflections |
Good News/ Friends Other faiths |
Our World |
English |
The Tiger Who Came to Tea / Monkey and Me Labels, captions, recounts My favourite toy descriptions Tales Toolkit narratives |
Lists Captions Simple retell Advent/Nativity Cards Tales Toolkit narratives |
Letters Non-fiction texts – dinosaurs/ environment- materials Instructions – How to take care of our world Posters Description – setting, characters Tales Toolkit narratives |
Story writing – innovation Non-fiction space Maps – labels/ instructions Tales Toolkit narratives |
Story writing Real life narratives – chicks/ caterpillars Instructions – fruit salad/ planting a seed etc. Non-fiction books innovation Factfile |
Non-fiction – real heroes Innovation – becoming their own superhero Captions for photos – visit from fire crew
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Maths Following WRM |
Baseline (3 weeks) Numbers (counting and recognition) (3 weeks)
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SSM- 2D shapes (2 weeks) SSM – Time (1 week) Numbers (addition and subtraction) (3 weeks)
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Numbers (counting and recognition) (3 weeks) SSM – size, weight and capacity (3 weeks) |
Numbers (addition and subtraction) (3 weeks) SSM – 3D shape (2 weeks) SSM - Money |
Numbers (counting and recognition) (2 weeks) Numbers (addition and subtraction) (2 weeks) Numbers (doubling, halving and sharing) (2 weeks) |
Numbers (doubling, halving and sharing) (1 weeks) SSM – position and distance (3 weeks)
Recap – consolidation. |
Expressive Arts |
Painting: self-portraits. Models of favourite toys
Music/ dance - emotions |
Chalk/charcoal drawings. Printing (pattern) Colour mixing Christmas crafts-shape, assemble, join Changes in music – loud/ quiet/ quick and slow |
Collage Texture focus Junk modelling Dancing like dinosaurs (The Planets Gustav Holst)/ Carnival of the animals – matching pieces to habitats and animals/ junk instruments |
papier mache plants Large scale model making – whatever next vehicles paper boats (The Marvellous Moon Map) |
Observational drawings. Animal masks moving like different animals |
Hero/ villain masks – costumes/ capes Creating backdrops for small world – s=cityscapes Superhero/villain music |
Understanding the World |
Changes in life baby- child – adult family customs- Home corner Their unique qualities – sims and differences Computing – introduce Purple Mash |
changes – seasonal/ passage of time decay celebrations Computing – changing an image (simple paint programme) |
Caring for our environment and living things. Materials sorting – patterns
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Solar system Our planet – habitats Shadows Maps floating and sinking Computing – Google Earth |
Caring for our environment and living things. Planting and growing/ life cycles patters and change Observations Making bread/ fruit salad/kebabs |
Similarities and differences Occupations Computing – Beebot/ programmable toy |
Text / film Focus |
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Our curriculum is unique. The 'Early Years Foundation Stage' Curriculum enables children to develop the skills needed to become happy, successful and life long learners. Click the link to find out more about the Early Years Curriculum- Early Years Development Matters Document see below
The children access the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum through a mixture of adult directed and child initiated activities. Our activities are completed in both our inside and outside classroom so please ensure your child is is equipped for the weather each day!
We plan in line with the children's observed interests and welcome you to let us know if there is something at home that your child has expressed a particular interest in.
Please feel free to approach us with any ideas, expertise and/or resources you would like to share!