Reception

Summer 2

Welcome to Willow!

We are Reception and Year 1

Autumn 1

Early Years – Miss Neville

Welcome to Year R. We are Willow Class.

The staff who work in Willow are: Miss Neville and Miss D.

Please feel free to talk about your child with any of the staff in the morning, or after school.

We love celebrating your child’s achievements and you are always welcome to see what we have been learning.

We look forward to welcoming you and your child into our school community. For the first few weeks of term, we will explore our classroom and different parts of our school. We will be learning about our school routines.

In the first half term, we will be learning lots of new and exciting things! Our focus lessons are detailed below. Our focus for this first half term is: Wonderful Me!

Phonics

We teach children to read through daily phonics lessons. In Reception, this half term we will begin to learn to discriminate about what sounds we are able to hear and investigate rhythm, rhyme and alliteration. We will also begin learning our letter sounds (phonemes), where we use Letters and Sounds supported by Monster Phonics to teach phonics. The children in Year 1 will be consolidating their Phonics knowledge gained in Reception and beginning to learn new di-graphs.

English

Our first focus text this year is ‘5 Minutes Peace!’ We will be exploring the text through lots of practical activities! As we begin to learn letter sounds, in Reception, we can begin to start writing some labels and marks in context. Our Year 1 children will be writing simple sentences to recount and describe.

Maths

During the year we will be learning all about the numbers 0-20 and looking at concepts relating to space, shape, and measure. During the first half term, in Reception, we will concentrate on the numbers 0-5 and some aspects of shape. We will be concentrating on one number a week and will use the number blocks characters to strengthen the children’s understanding. Each week we will delve deeper into the number and look at all things relating to it. We will look at what the number looks like with practical resources and what other numbers are hidden within it!  In Year 1 we are looking at place value and exploring the number system to 20.

Reading

The children will be given to be given a reading book to take home and read with their grown-up. Their book will be changed twice a week. It is important to read with them daily as it will really support their development in reading and writing and it provides a great opportunity for you to have some concentrated time with your child.

Friday Focus

Children will take part in 6 different areas of learning over the course of the school year. These aspects of learning aim to help the children develop their self-confidence, resilience and team work in various ways.

The areas of learning are;

• Forest School
• Farm School
• Well Being Warriors
• DT Bots
• Art Factory
• Techno Wizards.

In Autumn 1 Reception will start with Art Factory working alongside Miss Stuart each Friday afternoon, and Year 1 will have Theatre with Miss Benhamou.

Reminders

• PE is on a WEDNESDAY, where the children will need to have their named PE in school.
• Reading records to be returned
• We finish at 15:30 and will dismiss from the side door from the school hall.

Useful websites for home learning

BBC Bitesize

Phonics Play – Phonics Games

Top Marks – Maths Games

Thank you for your support. As always, please contact me by email or by phoning the school office.

Thanks,

Miss Neville

Term 6

Overview:

Curriculum Grid Willow Term 6

Homework:

Homework Grid Term 6

Willow’s Reading Spring  Challenge

Useful websites for home learning

Thank you for your support. As always, please contact me by email or by phoning the school office.

Thanks,

Miss Neville

Timetable