Reception

With Mrs Wogden and Miss Duerden

Hello Reception!

We are looking forward to learning and exploring this half term with you. 

Please email any questions to ipseyfs@gmail.com

Our PE day is Monday. Please remember to wear your PE uniform from home.
Our PE uniform is a white t-shirt, blue tracksuit and trainers. 

Please make sure your child brings a warm winter coat everyday and appropriate shoes for outdoor play. 

Take care,
Mrs Wogden and Miss Duerden 

Mrs Wogden

Penguins Class

Penguins

Swallows

Miss Duerden
Swallows Class

OUR CURRICULUM

Our curriculum is designed around the needs of our young children and is organised into seven areas of Learning and Development.

   

Communication and Language experiences are about:

 

Personal, Social and Emotional experiences are about:

 

Physical Development experiences are about:

 

Literacy experiences are about:

 

Mathematics experiences are about:

Understanding the World experiences are about:

 

Expressive Arts & Design experiences are about:

Spring:  what we will be learning

Topics - Once Upon a Time

Our topic focus is called Once Upon a Time. We will be reading lots of traditional stories. Our Talk 4 Writing story is called The Little Red Hen. All the children will bring home their story maps to learn at home. 

Our key vocabulary this half term is linked to story telling : Beginning, middle, end, character, setting, problem and resolution.  

Our core rhyme -Jack and Jill 

We will continue to do lots of singing each day, learning new songs weekly and listening to some fabulous stories from our treasure basket of stories.

Communication and language

We will be doing lots of talking and learning all about each other. We will read stories and discuss what the vocabulary means in them. Using new vocabulary and previous learnt day to day will be encouraged and will be a focus and revisting 

We will work in small groups to develop our vocabulary using the Wellcomm Big Book of Ideas. We have been learning the vocabulary linked with longer and shorter and have been sorting different objects. 

Personal, Social and Emotional

We follow the SCARF PSED scheme

Our themes will include : 


Rights and Responsibilities 

Looking after my special people 

Looking after my friends 

Being helpful at home and in class 

Caring for our world 

Looking after money (recognising, spending, using) 

Looking after money (saving) 



Physical Development

Gross Motor

Our funadmental movement skill that we are developing this half term is hopping . The children will also start some extra sessions on a Monday with Mr Stretch to help develop their gross motor skills. 

Fine Motor 

We have started our daily Little Wandle handwriting sessions. We are learning formation phrases for each letter sound. Letters are taught in letter families. 

Literacy - Phonics

Phonic session take place daily. Our phonic scheme is called Little Wandle. 

The children will be learning 4 new sounds each week. 


Children will be recaping new sounds in Spring 1

Week 1: ai ee igh oa 

Week 2 : ur ow oi ear

Week 3 : ur ow oi ear 

Week 4: air er 

Week 5 : Longer words  

Children will be learning new sounds in Spring 2


Week 1 - review Phase 3: ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur oo ow oi ear 

Week 2 - review Phase 3: er air words with double letters longer words 

Week 3 - words with two or more digraphs 

Week 4 - longer words words ending in –ing compound words 

Week 5 - onger words words with s in the middle /z/ s words ending –s words with –es at end /z/ 


Maths

Our themes this term are:


Understanding the World

We will be learning to : 


Describe different settings and places.  

 

Use purple mash to create a story. 

 

Compare and contrast characters from stories,
including figures from the past 

 

 

Celebrate special times such as EID and Easter 



Expressive Arts and Design

Our focus this half term will be junk modelling. We will use the stories that we have read as a starting point and make castles, towers, houses.   


Wow moments!

Keep an eye out here for any special days we might have this half term!

A dinosaur came to school!

The children in reception had a fantastic day when the dinosaur came to school! We explored fossils, learnt about certain dinosaurs and what they liked to eat and even saw a baby dinosaur! 

Ginger turns 5!

We had a great day celebrating our class bear turning 5! We decorated the classroom, made birthday cards and backed cakes to help him celebrate. We also organised him a birthday party where we danced and played party games.

Reception police Visit

The reception children had a lovely afternoon listening to our local PCSO talk to them how the police can help them. We talked about road safety and they all got a chance to sit in the police car and listen to the sirens!

ACTIVITY FILE SHARE

Below are folders where we share the materials you will need if you need to isolate at home.

Just open the folder and click the file you need to open and save.

Remember, any questions or concerns email us on ipseyfs@gmail.com We're here to help! 

Useful websites

Phonics games

Phonics games

Oxford Owls:
reading books

Cosmic Kids

Topmarks - Maths games

BBC Bitesize - Maths

Oak National Academy - Maths

WhiteRose Maths

Cbeebies games

Intack Facebook page

Handwriting

Username: intack_7
Password: nursery

Movement and mindfulness

Contact US

If you have any questions, please email us on this address 😀

ipseyfs@gmail.com 

Useful Resources