Mrs Tumelty
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Mrs Hunter
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Welcome to our Reception class page!
Welcome back to school after the Summer Holidays, we are looking forward to having a busy and fun half term! We can't wait to get to know our new Reception class and settle into school life.
On this page you will find out all about life in Reception at St. James'.
If you would like to get in touch please email us: [email protected]
Welcome back to school after the Summer Holidays, we are looking forward to having a busy and fun half term! We can't wait to get to know our new Reception class and settle into school life.
On this page you will find out all about life in Reception at St. James'.
If you would like to get in touch please email us: [email protected]
Our class texts' for Autumn 1:
Hello Friend and A Little Bit Brave.
We will be looking at these two texts, as well as other fiction and non-fiction books all to do with our topic All About Me.
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In Reception our topic this half term is All About Me. Here is what we will be looking at in Autumn 1.
Books: Hello Friend! by Rebecca Cobb and A Little Bit Brave by Nicola Kinnear.
Celebrations and Special Events:
Harvest
Black History Month
Halloween
Curious Critters
Teddy Bear's Picnic
R.E: What stories are special and why?
Communication and Language:
Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.
Develop social phrases.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
Manage their own needs: personal hygiene.
Oral Health.
Physical Development:
Gross Motor Skills
Where do we walk?
Where do we run?
Lining up.
Fine Motor Skills
Safe use of scissors.
Use of pencils, paintbrushes, forks and spoons at lunchtime.
Reading:
Language Comprehension: Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.
Word Reading: Develop their phonological awareness so that they can: Spot and suggest rhymes. Count or clap syllables in words. Recognise words with the same initial sound. Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.
Phonics (Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds): Phase 3 sounds and tricky words.
Phase 2: s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k,ck,e,u,r,h,b,f,l
New Tricky Words: is, I, the
Writing:
Write some letters accurately.
Begin to form lower-case letters correctly.
Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sounds with letters/s.
Mathematics: (White Rose Maths)
Just Like Me!
Match, Sort and Compare.
Talk about measure and pattern.
It's Me 1, 2, 3!
Count objects, actions and sounds.
Explore the composition of numbers to 3.
Understanding the World:
Amazing Me
Talk about members of their immediate family and community.
Name and describe people who are familiar to them.
Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.
Autumn
Explore the Natural World around them (Autumn).
Describe what they see, hear and feel whilst outside.
Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them.
Expressive Arts and Design:
Amazing Me - Self Portraits.
Develop storylines in their pretend play.
Explore use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and learning.
Return to and build upon their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.
We are now teaching Phonics using Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds. Take a look at the For Parents page for more information!
Homework and Reading Books
Reception homework will be shared with you every Friday via email. Feel free to email photographs of any practical activities you do at home or you are more than welcome to bring them into class as well.
Reading Books will be assigned to your child via our new online E-Books. You will receive a login for your child for this and a new book will be assigned each Monday by the class teacher. In addition to this each Monday your child will choose a choosing book to take home with them, for you to read together. Please bring in your child's book bag each Monday for this choosing book to be changed.
Also we love to hear about what the children are getting up to at home, please send us photographs and objects from special events, days out and clubs- we'd love to share them with the class!
Reception homework will be shared with you every Friday via email. Feel free to email photographs of any practical activities you do at home or you are more than welcome to bring them into class as well.
Reading Books will be assigned to your child via our new online E-Books. You will receive a login for your child for this and a new book will be assigned each Monday by the class teacher. In addition to this each Monday your child will choose a choosing book to take home with them, for you to read together. Please bring in your child's book bag each Monday for this choosing book to be changed.
Also we love to hear about what the children are getting up to at home, please send us photographs and objects from special events, days out and clubs- we'd love to share them with the class!
Useful Websites
Below are some useful websites to help support your child's learning:
Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Development Matters Gov Document - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/development-matters--2
ICT Games - https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/
BBC Teach EYFS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/z6bgnrd
Oxford Reading Owl - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Cbeebies Storytime and Rhymes - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Development Matters Gov Document - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/development-matters--2
ICT Games - https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/
BBC Teach EYFS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/z6bgnrd
Oxford Reading Owl - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Cbeebies Storytime and Rhymes - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
