Welcome to Reception

#proud

Meet the team

Teacher: Mrs Killian                        Teacher: Mrs Bashir

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Szmyt       Teaching Assistant: Mrs Preston

Weekly Timetable 

PE Day - Wednesday

What have we done this term to make ourselves proud?

This half term we have done lots to make ourselves and others proud. We have progressed in our phonics and can now use our sounds to write words and short sentences. In Maths we can use excellent sentences to say how to make numbers 5, 6 and 7.  We have learnt lots of facts about people who help us in our community and showed excellent listening skills when we had a visit from a dental nurse.

Aspirations

At the beginning of the term we learnt about people in the community that we aspire to be like. We read a story called ‘A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant that taught us all about the importance of lollypop people in the community. This got use thinking about what we want to do when we grow up and the skills and knowledge we would need.

Changes

During our changes Mini Adventure we have thought a lot about growing and the changes in the weather. We have enjoyed learning about what a plant needs to grow and cared for our own seeds. During Forest School, we have spent time outside using out senses and identifying different flowers such as daffodils. Our class book has been ‘Little Bear’s Spring’ and we have learnt lots of facts about spring and what the changes are that we can see and feel. 

What we will be learning about in the summer term.

Reading

We will continue to learn special friends during RML sessions. 

Writing

Continue to develop our sentences using known sounds. We will use finger spaces,  capital letters and full stops.

Maths

We will learn number bonds to 10. Continue to develop our counting skills with larger numbers and compare quantities. 

Mini Adventures

Summer 1 – Changes. We will continue to explore Spring time and life cycles of plants and animals.

Summer 2 – Under the sea. We will look at sea pollution and sea creatures.

Summer 1 - Changes

During this mini adventure we will:

*Know that plants need soil, water and sunlight to grow.

*Identify daffodils when outside.

*Identify 4 stages of a beanstalk life cycle (seed, germination, leaf growth and flowering).

*Identify the 5 stages of a frog life cycle (egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, froglet, frog).

*Know we have 5 senses that we can use whilst outside when looking at the changes in springtime.

*Name farm animals (cow, horse, chicken, pig, sheep).

*Know that Easter is important to Christians.

*Know parts of a flower (roots, leaves, stem, flower).

*Know different types of weather (sun, rain).

Summer 2 - Aspirations

During this mini adventure we will:

*Name and describe people who are familiar to them in the community – fire fighters, police, hairdressers, shop staff, religious links.

*Discuss own experiences with people who are familiar to them in the community.

*Mix colours to enable them to match the colours they see and want to represent.

*Construct with a range of materials.

*Use clay to create sculptures in forest school.

*Use a new joining technique (sticks and twine).

*Paint to music and say how it makes them feel.

*Display our work in a gallery for people to view.

*Use our imagination to create roles in our play for example to act out how a lollypop person helps to cross a road.

*Experiment with textures (clay,

*Identify colours, shapes and textures outside.

Be safe, be kind, be ready to learn