Welcome to Reception Class
Within our Reception year, learning takes place through seven different areas; Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design, Physical Development, Understanding the World, Mathematics, Personal Social and Emotional Development and Literacy.
Spring Term
This Term we will learn about all kids of wonderful creatures such as Dinosaurs, Farm animals, Mini beasts, Safari animals and many more.
Mrs Oliver & Miss Lloyd (Class Teachers)
Ms Ball, (HLTA)
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff (after school) write in the communication book, send a message on Class Dojo or email.
Reminders
- Children do not need snacks, fruit is provided in school (If your child will only eat certain fruits they may bring something from home (fruit only please)
- If you could please encourage your child to put their drinks bottle on the blue trolley in the morning. There are also baskets to put in your communication books, if you have a message or any letters for the office.
- If your child is happy to play in the playground with their friends in the morning before the bell rings please do encourage this and stand outside the gates or fence if possible. A member of the reception team will be out on the playground at this time. Once the bell rings at 8.30am the children will line up and you are free to leave.
- Once handed out, reading books will be changed twice a week, we would please encourage you to read with your child 5x a week at home.
- Please encourage your child to practise putting their coat and shoes on independently. This will benefit the children hugely and will help them to become more independent as the year progresses.
- PE will be on THURSDAYS please can children come to school wearing their PE Kit.
- Forest School will be on TUESDAYS - they need to wear something that is appropriate. Please provide waterproof trousers to put over the top of Joggers etc, coat and wellies. Please let us know if you can help with Forest School on a Tuesday morning.
- Please label EVERYTHING
As Mathematicians we will be learning about –
I about numbers to 8, mass and capacity. We will be doing this through short, whole class sessions as well as within our classroom provision. We will learn counting songs and rhymes to help us. We will be looking at forming different digits and matching these to the correct quantities. We will be solving problems linked to our maths.
Communication and Language
We will develop our use of language across all areas of the curriculum and use storytelling to begin to orally tell new stories. We will be exploring lots of different areas of our classroom, as well as forest school, to help develop our language. Our topic this term is ‘All creatures great and small’.
Continuous Provision
We will continue to provide a wealth of learning activities each week for the children to access. All of these activities are linked to the 7 areas of learning and also incorporate the children's own interests.
As theologians we will be learning about –
Being special: where do we belong?
We will be looking at different groups we belong to and who is special to us
Important dates for the diary –
07.01.26 - First day of term
16.02.26-20.02.26 - Half Term
27.03.26 - Last day of term
30.03.26-10.04.26 - Easter Holiday
Outdoors
Children will have access to the outdoor area throughout the whole day despite the weather. Please make sure that they come to school with appropriate clothing including a warm coat when the weather turns and sun cream and a hat for those warm sunny days.
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to keep you up to date with your child's learning journey. Please remember to check on Class Dojo to see what we have been learning about. Remember to add your own photos and comments about achievements out of school – these are fantastic for us to see.
As writers we will be learning to –
build on our phonic knowledge, moving onto phase 3 sounds. We will be learning new stories, through our story telling. We will be using our writing to label pictures and begin to write simple captions.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will use Circle Times to talk about our feelings and how our actions affect others.
We will be looking at our value of perseverance this half term. We will think about when we need to persevere and how we can help each other.
Our PSHE topic this Term is DREAMS AND GOALS.
We will be learning about our school values and how we all work together within the St. James community.
Phonics
We will be using our scheme, Supersonic Phonic Friends.
This term we will continue to re-cap sounds from last term, as well as moving on to learn phase 3 sounds. The children will continue to practise this daily through reading and writing activities. We will begin to look at simple sentences in our writing.
This is a useful link to hearing how to pronounce the sounds we will be learning this term...
Understanding the World
We will continue to be exploring forest school and learning lots of new skills including climbing, building and throwing. We will be looking at difference festivals and how they are celebrated around the world.
This half term we will also get a Surprise delivery! Its going to be very EGGsiting!
Physical Development
In PE we will be developing our skills in movement, experimenting with different ways of moving. We will begin to develop our dance this term, recognising actions can be performed to music and copy, repeat and perform some basic actions to music.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be learning to play different musical instruments and explore the sounds that they can make. We will explore colour mixing and begin to explore emotions through drawings.
