Preschool
Please find preschool's weekly learning on their class gallery page.
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Reception Class
Week Commencing: 20th March
Reception Class
Week Commencing: 13th March 2023
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Reception Class
Week Commencing: 6th March 2023
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Reception Class
Week Commencing: 27th February
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Wek Commencing 20th February
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Reception Class
Week Commencing: 6th February
We enjoyed 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' theme so much last week that we are going to continue into this week. We will be busy rehearsing our oral story telling using our class text map and will post the video onto the gallery for you to enjoy.
Also, as it will be Valentine's Day in the half term, we will be talking about people who are special to us and why we love our families. Look out for some heart shaped creations making their way home at the end of the week!
Reception Class
Week Commencing: 30th January 2023
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In maths we will be working on our number bonds to 10
Reception Class
Week Commencing: 23rd January 2023
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Reception Class
Week Commencing 16th Jan 2023
This week we will be using the story 'Beegu' as a stimulus for our learning.
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In maths, we are working on addition (combining two amounts with a total of up to 10) and making up number stories to help learn the number bonds.
Reception Class-
Week Commencing 4th Jan 2023
For this first short week back at school, we will be settling the children back into their routine and revisiting recent learning to consolidate what we have been working on in phonics and maths in particular.
Phonics- We will be re-capping all sounds to date and working on blending for reading and segmenting for spelling. We will be starting new colour books/groups from Monday 9th Jan.
Maths- Working on recognition of numerals to 10 and combining numbers of objects within 10.
We will be introducing the children to our new theme too on 'Space'. We will be incorporating the theme into all learning areas as well as PE when we will be doing Space themed dance and movement.
The children will be given the opportunity to look at lots of space images and ask questions that they may have using the language " I see, I think, I wonder..."
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Mon 5th December 2022
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Week Commencing: Mon 28th November 2022
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Reception Class
Week beginning Mon 21st November 2022
This week we will be basing all our learning around the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'.
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Reception Class- 14th November 2022
This week we will continue our learning about celebrations and will use 'Scarecrow's Wedding' as our stimulus. It is also Anti-Bullying week so we will be doing some circle time work about how to be kind towards others and be a good friend.
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Sharing experiences of family occasions such as weddings
Finding out about traditions related to different celebrations
Writing invitations
Designing and making hats, flowers and decorations
Sampling fruit cake
Making models of tiered cakes using construction kits and junk modelling
Role playing a wedding service
Reception Class- 7th November 2022
This week we will be learning about nocturnal animals and using the story of Owl Babies as a starting point. We will be finding out facts about owls and learning which other animals only come out at night.
As part of our topic on celebrations, we will be leaning about the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali and making comparisons to Bonfire night and Christmas.
Some activities we have planned for this week include:
Den building and using torches
Leaf owls
Making Diwa lamps with salt sough and Rangoli patterns using chalks and oil pastels
Stick puppets and props for re-telling the story
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Monday 31st October 2022
This week we will be starting our new topic called 'Let's Celebrate'. We will be having lots of Halloween fun on Monday wearing our costumes and taking part in crafts, exploring pumpkins, playing games and dancing. We will also be sharing the book 'Room on the Broom' and sequencing the story events.
For the rest of the week, we will be thinking about how the seasons change through the year and what other celebrations we have. We will then be looking forward to the weekend when many of us will celebrate Bonfire Night. A fire engine will be visiting us on Friday and we will be learning how to keep ourselves safe whilst enjoying the events with our families.
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Monday 10th October 2022
This week, the whole school are focusing on 'Diversity' so we will be sharing lots of photographs, stories and video clips that promote discussion about people all being unique and the need to be respectful and kind to everyone. This will include raising awareness (in an age appropriate way) about stereotypes, different types of families, race, equality and equity and also disabilities.
Reception Class
This week we will be reading ‘My Map Book' by Sara Fanelli. This book helps us to use our imagination and represent familiar places using pictures and symbols.
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Home learning: You could talk about what you see on your way to and from school every day. (Permanent features e.g. the Co-op, the church etc)
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Monday 26th September 2022
This week we will be reading the story 'Super Duper You'. This story helps us to think about all of the things that make us special and 'super'.
We will be:
- Investigating our 5 senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling) in lots of fun and interactive ways.
- Making pictures with our hand prints and unique super hero masks
- Having a go at writing our name (we will do this many times over the year to look at progression)
- Outside we will be working on our ball skills e.g. kicking, rolling and throwing
- Sharing lots of stories and songs
- Singing counting and number songs
Home learning: You could have a chat about what you see on your way to and from school in preparation for next week when we will be thinking about where we live and our local area.
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Mon 19th September 2022
This week we will be reading the book ‘What Make Me a Me’ by Ben Faulks & David Tazzyman
This book to help understand how we are all special in different ways and that is what makes us unique.
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Home learning: Please send in a family photograph if you haven’t already. It is lovely to have these on display in our home corner.
Reception Class
Week Commencing: Monday 12th September 2022
This week we will be reading the story 'My Many Coloured Days' by Dr Seuss
This story helps us to think about all of the different feelings we might have especially when starting school.
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- Looking at our faces in the mirror and painting self portraits or using natural, loose objects to represent our faces.
- Making mood monsters and recording how we feel at different times
- Starting to learn our first sounds (m, a and s) You can find information about how we teach phonics on the parent’s section of the class page on the website.
- Outside we will be working collaboration, sharing and turn taking skills
- Sharing lots of stories and songs
- Singing counting and number songs
Home learning: It would be great if you could bring in a family photograph so that we can take a copy to put up in our home corner. We will be having a circle time to talk about our families and why they are special to us.
Welcome to your first week in Reception
(Starting back on Tuesday 6th September 2022)
Hello, and welcome to Reception. This term our overarching theme is 'All about me'. This week we will be spending lots of time;
- Getting to know each other
- Exploring the classroom
- Exploring the outdoor area
- Thinking about our class routines
- Having lots of FUN!!!
(don't forget to look at our class gallery to see what we have been getting up to)