Reception

Reception

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed a lovely half term break, we are all really excited to continue your learning journey with you and know we are going to have lots of fun. Last half term we had so much fun learning all about ourselves and others through our topic 'Marvellous me' and all about different animals through our topic 'Amazing Animals'. Scroll down to see some great photographs of our learning so far!

Please scroll down for class information.

Your teachers are Mrs Smith and Miss Kozij

Mrs Smith's class name is London 1

Miss Kozij's class name is London 2

Reminders:

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

PE is Wednesday 

Information from school uniform policy:

PE kits can be left on pupil's pegs for the 1/2 term and will be sent home for washing before the holidays.

Home Learning

• Reading books are changed on Wednesday.
• Homework is sent home in the yellow learning log on Fridays and is to be returned on the following Wednesday
• Sound and word envelopes are updated weekly to reflect learning in class.  Please practise these sounds and words as often as possible.

Reading

• Practise letter sounds and key words as often as possible. 
• Read a range of books - go to the library and let your child choose books that interest them.
• Talk about the stories that you/ your child read/s.
• Look out for the sounds and words that your child has been learning in books or in the environment.

Writing

• Let your child observe you writing for a range of purposes e.g. shopping lists, postcards, letters, cards etc
• Give your child opportunities to write - let them write the shopping list!
• Encourage your child to form the letters correctly.

Number

• Talk about time - what time they get up, go to school etc.
• Give them the experience of money when out shopping.
• Look for numbers and shapes in the environment.

Outdoor Learning

We are all really enjoying exploring our wonderful new outdoor learning space.  For information about clothing requirements such as waterproofs and wellies, please see the attached leaflet at the bottom of this page.

Our Learning

Amazing animals!

We had lots of fun using the instruments to make noises to match all the different animals!

Colours!

We had lots of fun exploring colours by mixing them together in the outdoor area!

Mark making!

We had lots of fun mark making in our outdoor area!

Building!

We have had lots of fun using the wooden blocks to build and construct!

Important dates:

EYFS Nativity - Wednesday 11th December, 9:15am

EYFS & KS1 Pantomime, Christmas dinner and party - Monday 16th December

House Day - Friday 20th December

School closes on Friday 20th December

Autumn Term

Our main topic for Autumn 2 will be 'Winter Wonderland'

We will be beginning our topic of 'Winter Wonderland' with Needles the Hedgehog coming to visit reception. 

Needles will arrive in our classroom and will introduce 'bonfire night' the children will learn all about bonfire night and bonfire safety. We will then begin to look at the season winter and will be exploring the changes in the outdoors. We will then be learning all about advent and we will be beginning to get ready for our Christmas Nativity!

In Maths we will be looking closely at numbers to 10, making sets and will begin to add/subtract.  We will be looking at different ways of measuring and exploring 2D and 3D shapes.

In literacy, we will continue to revisit our phase 1 phonics activities and continuing to focus on phase 2.  We will be focusing on segmenting and blending sounds in simple words, recognising some key sight words and beginning to write simple words and sentences with correct letter formation. We will share lots of stories linked to our topics and use drama to act out our own.  We will look closely at story patterns and introduce the idea of character, setting, problem and solution.

We will always be practising our good listening and talking skills working with talk partners and in group discussions.

Here is a sneaky peek at our topics...

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!