This Term's Topics
All About Me
Welcome to Reception!
During this year we will work towards becoming independent learners allowing us to access learning through a range of areas such as the role play, construction and baking. Children will have access to the outdoors and many opportunities to develop life-long skills through play, carpet and snack time. Our topic this half term is All About Me. We will cover areas such as talking about ourselves, learning about our families and friends and how we feel about starting school.
We will be building on our number knowledge through learning about numbers 0-10. This will be through a range of games and activities.
In writing we will look at writing our names, this will be done every morning as well as learning new letters and sounds. We will do phonics every morning as a whole class. This will start with Phase 2 sounds and we will build from there. We will use a range of strategies to help us including writing, reading and singing songs.
Our PE lessons will be every Friday morning. Children will bring their PE kits to school in September and leave them on their pegs. We will change in school for the lesson. This half term we will be work on agility, balance and coordination with lessons focusing on basic movements.
We will access the outdoors as much as possible with our reception and nursery yard being open every afternoon as well as forest schools with Mrs Frost. We ask that you send your child to school with appropriate clothing depending on the weather (coat if cold or rainy, hat / sun cream if sunny etc)
Class 2 Staff:
Teacher - Mr Johnston
Teacher - Mrs Frost (Wednesday PM)
STA - Miss Hope (Full time)
Snack:
All Reception children will have a daily snack, at our snack table. We ask for £4 per half term. Payments can be made via 'School Money.'
Class 2 Home Learning
Reading:
Every Friday, all children will have the opportunity to choose a library book from our school library to bring home for the week.
Children have Reading Records where you can record reading you do with your child. Please keep Reading Records in your child’s book bag.
Reading books will be sent home when your child is ready. Once your child has a reading book, these will be changed every week so please keep them in your child’s book bag, along with Reading Records so we can change your child’s book.
Our phonics this half term will be focusing on phase 2 sounds and tricky words. We will be having a push on reading and working on our segmenting and blending skills. If you would like to work on these with your child at home, the centre pages of their Reading Record has a phonics section.
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of the early years team.
Class 2 Weblinks
Oxford Owl Phonics Bloom Phonics PlayMusic Makers