Welcome to Reception 

Meet the team

Miss Wallace - Class teacher / EYFS Lead

Mrs Minor - Early Year Classroom Assistant

Miss James - Teaching Assistant

Autumn 1

Please click to the left of the page to view the full curriculum for this term.

Class Saint 

     

Our Class Saint this year is St Francis

We will be learning all about St Francis throughout the year and we will be celebrating his Feast Day on Thursday the 8th October (world animal day).

RE

This half term we will be learning about two very special units: Creation and People who help us.

English

We will explore many texts throughout this half term. Some of our focus texts will include:

Who are you? - Dinosaur Roar - Mary Anning (Little people, Big dreams) -

Our writing opportunities will include:

• Representing name and initial letter sounds
• Using a dominant hand
• Mark making and giving meaning to marks and labelling
• Writing initial sounds and words
• Use initial sounds to label characters / images
• Writing Names and Labels (copying)
• Writing messages (in provision/experimenting with marks/letters)
• Practising correct letter formation

This half-term some of the opportunities we will explore to develop our fine motor and gross motor skills will include:

• Dough Disco
• Squiggle while you wiggle

Fine motor opportunities:

• Sensory writing – foam, sand, rice, glitter etc
• Threading, cutting, weaving, playdough, Finger Gym/ chunky chalk activities
• Fine motor construction, nuts bolts, crazy creatures, mobile
• Large/small paint brush activities
• Cutting activities

Gross motor opportunities:

• Outdoor provision
• Sandpit
• Mud kitchen
• Outdoor balancing equipment/obstacle equipment
• Large paintbrushes and water
• Large chalks

Self-care – Using the toilet independently, hand washing independently, being independent at lunch times, dressing and undressing for P.E. Please bring P.E kits into school.

Reading Diaries

Each week the children will have a focus story, a rhyme of the week (these will be found in our weekly parent newsletter)

The children will also bring home a library book each week (Wednesday). This will need to be returned each week. The children will choose their own library book.

Reception – Library book, picture book, word purse and school diary.

Please read school box at least 3x weekly and sign school diary.

Key events for the half term

Please see the school messenger and  website calendar for any additional events and any further information.

 

New Website Links

www.phonicsplay.co.uk
www.topmarksmaths.co.uk
www.jollyphonics.co.uk