Welcome to Early Years!

Staff:

Teacher: Miss Steele

LSA: Miss Brewer

About Our Class:

In Reception, we aim to create a calm, nurturing environment where children feel safe and happy. While the children do receive an input on the carpet for their Phonics, Literacy and Maths learning, the majority of their learning takes place through continuous provision. Continuous provision allows the children to choose an activity, this provides a stimulus for rich and meaningful conversations between a child and an adult, expanding children's understanding and vocabulary.

In the Early Years Curriculum, there are seven areas of learning. To achieve a Good Level of Development (GLD) at the end of the year, children must reach expected levels in the prime areas in addition to Literacy and Maths by the end of their reception year.

Prime areas

• Communication and language
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Physical development

Specific areas

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world
• Expressive art and design

Characteristics of Effective Learning

• Playing and Exploring
• Active Learning
• Creating and Thinking Critically

What Are We Learning?

This half term our topic is 'Things that move'. Children will become excited about travelling and learn about the different ways of getting to new places. Children will be able to compare, describe and invent ways of travelling.

Phonics

We use Phonics Shed to support our phonics lessons. Puppet Joe joins us in each of our lessons. Our lesson begins with a welcome song and we then recap all of the phonemes that we have learnt. When we are learning our new sound, there is a song, a story and an action to make our learning more exciting. We then practice writing our new grapheme and reading it in words.

Reading books will be changed on Monday and Thursday each week.

Reading for pleasure books will be changed on a Monday.

Literacy

In literacy, we will read a new story each week, we will use Drawing club to bring this story to life. In our literacy lessons, children will learn new vocabulary, which we will practice each day. We will then use our imaginations to adapt the story that we have shared and create our own adventure for the character.

Maths

We follow The White Rose Maths scheme. 

PE Information

Reception will have PE lessons on a Thursday Morning. Children should come to school in PE kit on a Thursday so we are ready for our lesson.

We will do a range of activities to help us work together and learn our basic skills as well as understand how exercise helps us to be healthy. We follow Complete PE.