Willow

Reception

Class Teacher: Miss Neville

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Turvill-Smith.

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. We value the partnership we have with our families and are always available if you need a chat.

In this half term, we will be learning lots of new and exciting things! Our focus lessons are detailed below. Our focus for this half term is: Ships Ahoy! Where we will be discovering all about pirates and how they used to travel around the world. We will also be investigating villages and how they have changed over the years.

Phonics

We teach children to read through daily phonics lessons. This half term we will be continuing with our Phase 4 Phonics. We are using Monster Phonics to teach the children Phonics.

English

Our first focus text this term is ‘Jake’s First Day’ and other pirate texts. 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.

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 11-20 and addition and subtraction with these larger numbers. 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 simple concepts of time, e.g. our daily routines and daytime and night-time.

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 Summer 1 Willow Class will have Farm School working alongside Mr Ridley and Mrs Pilkington each Friday afternoon.

Reminders

PE is on a MONDAY afternoon. Please can you ensure your child has a named PE kit in school.
Reading records to be returned
We finish at 15:30 and will dismiss from the sports hall side door.

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