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Welcome to Reception!

Willow Class

Teacher - Miss Batchelor

 

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Vohra

Chestnut Class

Teacher - Miss Loades

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Patel

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Nikolaeva

Reminders

Please check Classdojo

Please do not put your child's drinks bottle in their bag as it sometimes leaks.

PE                                                              

Please ensure your child comes to school dressed in their PE kit every Monday. PE will begin on Monday 29th September.

Children should be dressed in either the Scotts tracksuit or shorts and t-shirt, depending on the weather. 

Book Bags and Reading Books

Your child will receive a book weekly. Please look at the back page to see what your child should be working on. This will include a decoding session, a prosody session and a comprehension session. Please sign your child's reading record 5 times a week. 

Homework

Your child will be given homework every Friday. Please support your child in completing this homework to help them consolidate their phonics learning. Homework is due in the following Friday. However, your child can return their homework as soon as it is completed.

Uniform

Please can you ensure that you label your child’s clothing, this includes their shoes. All children should come to school with a green book bag.

Special Person

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On a Friday, one child in class will be chosen as our special person. When it is your child’s turn, they will come home with a note to say they are the special person. Please collect five special things that are important to your child and discuss why they are special to them. It could be a teddy they have had since they were a baby, a certificate that they have been awarded or a photo of a family party. Once you have discussed them, please take a photograph and upload it to Class Dojo by the following Thursday, to enable the child to talk about why these items are special to them.

Termly curriculum overview

 

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Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?: A beloved classic picture book about night-time fears from the legendary author of OWL BABIES, perfect for little bears and their dads to share at bedtime

This week we will be reading the story Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? We will learn to understand how the bears are feeling when Little Bear cannot sleep. Throughout the story, we will pause at different events to notice the bears’ feelings and talk about the people who care for us. We will retell the story using picture prompts. We will also explore light and dark places around the school. In addition, we will learn that some animals only come out at night, which means they are nocturnal.

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Information for parents can be found on Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Please click on the link below.

 

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised

We will learn the sounds:

 

This week we will be learning the sounds: sh  th  ng  nk  

We will learn that when two letters make 1 sound we call it a digraph.

Tricky Words: he she

Our Topic is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt.'

 

13 Different Types of Bears and Where to See Them in the Wild

 

 

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In maths we will:

  • Investigate ways to compose and de-compose sets of 3
  • Explore how 1 and 2 are parts of 3
  • Investigate ways to compose and de-compose 4
  • Use spatial language to describe the shapes
  • Explain that different parts can make the same whole.
  • Investigate ways to compose and de-compose 5 
  • Use spatial language to describe the shapes
  • Explain that different parts can make the same whole.

 

Useful Websites:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?AgeGroup=1

Our Learning:

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Police visit
Chestnut and Willow Class were very fortunate to have a visit from the police. The children learned all about the officers’ jobs and even had the chance to try on parts of their uniforms. Everyone was very excited to sit in the driver’s seat of the police van and turn on the siren!
What I want to be when I grow up
The children in Reception were all very excited to come to school dressed as what they would like to be when they grow up. We had many different job roles, such as firefighters, police officers, ballerinas, and teachers. In the afternoon, the children put on a wonderful performance for their parents.