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:
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
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:
Length, height and time
Explore 3D shapes
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.
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