Reception

Spring 1

Early Years – Miss Neville

Welcome to Year R. We are Willow Class.

The staff who work in Early years are: Miss Neville and Mrs Turvill-Smith.

Please feel free to talk about your child with any of the Early Years 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: This is Northiam School.

Phonics

We teach children to read through daily phonics lessons. This half term we will be continuing to introduce di-graphs and tri-graphs to the children. These are combinations of two and three letters that make one sound. We use Letters and Sounds supported by Monster Phonics to teach phonics.

 

English

Our first focus text this term is ‘The Bear’s Winter House’ We will be exploring the text through lots of practical activities! We will be creating lots of opportunities for mark making and writing linked to this text, where the children will be able to demonstrate their phonetic skills.

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 this half term, we will concentrate on the numbers 5, 6,7 and 8 and some aspects of measures. 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!

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 once a week. The children will also be able to choose a book for pleasure which can be shared with their families. This book will also be changed once 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
• Farm Kitchen

In Spring 1 Willow Class will start with Farm Kitchen working alongside Miss Mewett each Friday afternoon.

Reminders

• PE is on a WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, where the children will need to come into school in a named PE kit. They will need to bring their school clothes to change into after PE.
• 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 5

Overview:

Curriculum Grid Willow Term 5

Homework:

Homework Grid Term 5

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