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

Summer 1: what we will be learning

Topic - Spring Time

Our topic focus is called Spring Time. We will be reading lots of non-fiction books about life cycles, growing and seasons. Our Talk 4 Writing story is called The Enormous Turnip. All the children will bring home their story maps to learn at home.

Our key vocabulary this half term is linked to story telling : turnip, planted, budge, field, enormous, grew, pull, cottage and seeds.

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. We will be encouraged to use our new vocabulary and what we have previously learnt during our day to day learning.

We will be creating our own stories using prompts to support us.

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 PSED scheme

Our theme is:

Growing and Changing

We will be learning about:

Physical Development

Gross Motor

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

Fine Motor

We are continuing 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 using their existing phonics knowledge to read longer words and applying it during guided reading sessions.

Maths

Our themes this term are:

Composition of numbers to 10
Counting
Subitising
Rotating and manipulating shapes
Recognising 2D and 3D shapes

Understanding the World

We will be:

Learning all about Spring.

Observing and caring for plants and animals.

Creating observational drawings.

Observing growth and learning about life cycles.

Expressive Arts and Design

Our focus this half term will be creating different textures. We will learn to scrunch, tear and roll to create collages. We will be using water colours to create observational drawings.

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!