Willow

Reception

Class Teacher: Miss Neville and Miss Stuart (Friday Mornings)
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Samantha Pilkington and Mrs Cassie Turvill-Smith

Welcome to Year R!

Autumn 2

Early Years – Miss Neville

Welcome to Year R. We are Willow Class.

The staff who work in Early years are: Miss Neville, Mrs Pilkington 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: Everyday Heroes, where we will be exploring the people who help us and looking at these roles around the world too.

Phonics

We teach children to read through daily phonics lessons. This half term we will be continuing with our Phase 2 sounds and introducing Phase 3. We are using Monster Phonics to teach the children Phonics.

English

Our first focus text this term is ‘A Superhero like You’ and other real-life superhero stories. We will be exploring the text through lots of meaningful activities! As we are developing our Phonic knowledge we will be applying our skills to our writing activities in context of our key texts. We will also be writing letters to Father Christmas.

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 0-5 and some aspects of shape. We will be concentrating on one aspect of 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! We will also be introducing repeating patterns and 2D and 3D shapes.

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 2 Willow Class will start with DT Bots working alongside Mr Ridley each Friday afternoon.

Reinders

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 15:15 and will dismiss from the main school entrance.

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 2:

Overview