Reception Class
Welcome to Reception
Meet the team
Demi Molloy - Class teacher / EYFS Lead
Mrs Minor - Early Year Classroom Assistant
Miss Edge - Early years Apprentice
Autumn 2
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 Joseph
We will be learning all about St Joseph throughout the year and we will be celebrating his Feast Day on the Thursday 19th March.
RE
This half term we will be learning about two very special units within our R.E.
Baptism
Advent
English
We will explore many texts throughout this half term. Some of our focus texts will include:
The Gruffalo
Owl Babies
Kipper’s birthday (home corner)
Our writing opportunities will include:
Writing CVC words.
Name writing.
Labelling using initial sounds.
Story scribing.
Sequencing the story.
P.E
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
- Weekly P.E
Self-care – Using the toilet independently, hand washing independently, being independent at lunch times, dressing and undressing for P.E and Forest schools.
Please bring P.E kits into school.
This half term Reception will have Forest school – this will be on a Friday afternoon.
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