Reception

With Mrs Scott, Mrs Hackett & Mrs Forrest

WELCOME TO RECEPTION!

Welcome to our EYFS Reception class page. On this page you will find information about the Reception classes and what children are learning each half term. Here you will find information about the EYFS curriculum and drop down menus with information about the different areas of learning.

Class names : Penguins and Swallows
Reception Class teachers : Mrs Scott, Mrs Forrest and Mrs Hackett

Reception Support Staff : Mrs Roberts, Mrs Patel , Miss Hajat, Mrs Scott, Mrs Rickwood and Mrs Hamadeh

Key messages :

Our PE day is Wednesday. Please remember to wear your PE uniform to school on this day. Our PE uniform is a white t-shirt, black or blue jogging bottoms / leggings, socks, trainers and your school jumper or hoodie. Please make sure you also bring a coat to school as the weather does change during the day. It is recommended to bring a change of spare clothes to leave in school so that children can change if they need to.

Reading books are sent home with each child in their book bags. Please remember to read your home reading book at least three times a week and make sure your reading record is signed by a grown-up each time you have read.

Homework - A home learning grid will be available at the bottom on this web page with examples of activities for children to complete at home.

Mrs Scott

Penguins Class

Penguins

Swallows

Mrs Forrest
Mrs Hackett
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:

Listening, attention and Understanding
Speaking

Personal, Social and Emotional experiences are about:

Self Regulation
Managing Self
Building Relationships

Physical Development experiences are about:

Gross Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills

Literacy experiences are about:

Comprehension
Word Reading
Writing

Mathematics experiences are about:

Number
Numerical Patterns

Understanding the World experiences are about:

Past and Present
People, Cultures and Communities

Expressive Arts & Design experiences are about:

Creating with Materials
Being Imaginative and Expressive

Summer term : WHAT WILL WE BE LEARNING?

Our Topic is called Our Wonderful World

We will start the topic with a special event known as a hook into our new "Talk for Writing" story - The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. A very tiny egg on a leaf will appear in the classroom. The children will make predictions about what will hatch out of the egg as a lead into our real caterpillars arriving in week 2. The children will then observe the caterpillars as they change into butterflies.

Lines of Enquiry include exploring different life cycles.

Children will learn to re-tell the story using a story map. Children will then innovate the story and change the vegetable in the story to retell a new story.

Our key vocabulary from our model text is : moon / egg / caterpillar / apple / pears / plums / strawberries / oranges / cone / pickle / swiss cheese / salami / cherry pie / sausage / watermelon / cupcake / stomach ache / cocoon / nibbled / butterfly

Communication and language

We will develop our listening skills by listening to others in lots of different situations. We will listen to other - one to one, in groups and as a whole class.

We will listen carefully to stories with enjoyment. We will be practising to retell simple stories and listening to longer stories.

When listening to others we will be encouraged to respond with relevant comments.

We will follow sets of simple instructions and follow them.

We will have opportunity to understand a range of questions - What? Where? Who? Why?

We will work in small groups to develop our vocabulary using the Wellcomm Big Book of Ideas.

Personal, Social and Emotional

We follow the SCARF scheme for PSED. Our focus theme is all about valuing differences and keeping safe. The theme we will cover over this half term include:

Growing and Changing

Seasons

Life stages - plants, animals and humans

Life stages - Human life stage - who will I be?

Getting bigger

Growing up - boys and girls

We will take part in circle activities around these topics.

Physical Development

Gross Motor

We use our outdoor areas daily. Children have a range of equipment to help develop their gross motor skills. Children have access to climbing equipment, a range of bikes, scooters and balance bikes.

Our fundamental movement skill this half term is catching.

Fine Motor

Fine motor activities will be available for the children to take part in and develop their skills using a range of equipment including tweezers, scissors and pencils.

Daily Little Wandle handwriting sessions take place to help children develop their letter formation . We are learning formation phrases for each letter of the alphabet. We will learn one new letter each day.

Literacy

We have phonics sessions daily. Our phonics scheme is called Little Wandle.

The children will be learning new GPCs each day, learning how to pronounce and write them. They will also be practising their oral blending skills.

Children will work in phases. Here are the different phases.

Phase 2 sounds - SATPINMDGOCKVWYZ

Phase 3 sounds - ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, ow,oi, ear, air, er

Phase 4 reading focus - CVCC words, CCVC words, CCVCC words, reading longer and compound words. Learning root words ending in -ing,-ed, /t/, -id, -est

Please can make sure you read at least 3 times a week. If you need a new book bag or reading book please just ask.

Maths

In Summer we will continue to develop our maths skills and continue to work towards the Early Leaning Goals.

Number

Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number. • Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5. • Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.

Numerical Pattern

Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system. • Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity. • Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally

Understanding the World

We will be learning about:

Life cycles - We will learn about life cycles of a caterpillar. We will have our own caterpillars arrive to observe their life cycle.
Where we live and how to compare it to a different place. We will learn about Africa so that we can compare Blackburn to Africa.

Trip to Mrs Dowson's Farm Park

Expressive Arts and Design

We will focusing on Tinga TInga art.

Watch this introduction video to learn more. Click on this link to access.

We will produce our own pieces of Tinga TInga art.

Our Charanga focus is to reflect, rewind and replay on songs from over the year. This Unit of Work consolidates the learning that has occurred during the year. All the learning is focused around revisiting chosen nursery rhymes and/or songs, a context for the History of Music and the very beginnings of the Language of Music.