Welcome to Reception! We are 'St Mary's' class.
Summer 1 2021
Welcome to our Reception class home page. We have two Reception classes- RFC and RK.
The Reception Team
The Reception Teachers are: Mrs Farrell, Mrs Collins and Miss Knowles.
Learning support staff are: Mrs McEntee, Mrs Murphy, Miss Neale and Mrs Bailey.
The Early Years gate opens at 8:30am. The Early Years bubble (Nursery and Reception classes) will close at 8.40am prompt. If your child is late you will need to wait until all other mini school bubbles have closed before entering the school through the school office. Please ensure your child arrives promptly to school each day. At the end of the day, the doors open at 2.40pm. Please arrive on time to collect your child.
Remote Learning in Reception
Should it be needed for individual cases, information regarding remote learning can be found on our class Sway page on the school website under the Parents tab and then Home Learning Support. This folder contains learning activities for pupils who are absent for a few days as they are currently isolating awaiting test results (if well enough to access) or siblings of pupils who are required to isolate.
If the whole year group or an individual child needs to isolate for the recommended 10 days then we will contact you with further details about teaching and learning at home. This longer term learning will be delivered through Seesaw.
There are also many home learning resources and support further down this class page.
Our Learning in Summer 1
This half term we shall continue to guide and progress the children in all 7 inter-connected areas of learning and development within the EYFS Framework. This will be through teacher observations during whole class, group and individual teaching.
Our literacy texts this half term will focus on the theme of Growth.
Below are some of the texts we will read with the children.
We will also learn about Pentecost, Annointing of the Sick - interrelating, Other Faiths and Our World.
Daily activities to complete with your child-
Maths
In Maths we will be focusing on counting, subitising (instantly recognise small quantities), comparing and ordering, one to one correspondence, number recognition and order. We shall learning about the numerals 11-20 in particular. We will be making sets and finding one more and less. We will be sorting and matching, creating patterns and finding them around us. We will be building on the children's mathematical vocabulary around everyday number concepts such as time and positional language.
Literacy
In literacy, we will continue to consolidate our phase 1 and 2 phonics and continue to teach phase 3 where we look at letter sounds and begin to use these to read and write simple words. This term we will encourage the children to write short captions and sentences independently. For more detailed information on the phonics phases please see the Letters and Sounds website (https://www.letters-and-sounds.com/). We will be doing lots of mark making in a variety of contexts and for varied purposes, encouraging the use of the letter formation as we learn them. We will be working hard on our speaking and listening skills, having paired discussions with our 'talk partners', telling our news and sharing lots of stories and rhymes. We will be using the Tales Toolkit approach ( https://talestoolkit.com/) to support shared narratives and independent story telling.
RSE
This term we will begin teaching RSE, using the scheme Ten Ten - Life to the Full. Below is an overview of the lesson objectives your child will cover over the summer term.
EYFS – Created and Loved by God (Module 1)
Religious Understanding | Me, My Body, My Health | Emotional Wellbeing | Life Cycles |
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PE
PE (Physical Education) in Reception will continue to take place each Wednesday outdoors on the astro turf pitch. Therefore, your child should arrive to school in their PE kits each Wednesday. They will not need their standard school uniform on this day as they will stay in their PE kits all day.
As in line with our school uniform policy, your child’s PE kit should be as follows:
Tapestry Online Learning Journal
This year, we will trial Tapestry, an online learning journal, in Nursery and Reception. Tapestry is a program which allows all children in our Reception classes to have a personal on-line learning journal which records photographs, observations and comments to build up a record of your child’s experiences during their time with us.
You will have secure access (via email address and password) to your child’s individual Learning Journal and, in addition to viewing our contributions, we encourage you to add to it by uploading photos and comments, or commenting on observations made by us. The safeguarding of our children is very important to us. Everything that is added to Tapestry will only be viewed by school staff using the program, and also yourself, using your own log in. You will only have access to your child’s Learning Journal and this cannot be seen by other parents. It is crucial that you do not share photos or videos from your child’s learning journal on social media or through other online platforms.
Tapestry will be a wonderful way of additional communication between staff and parents; enabling you to view your child’s experiences and comment on the posts, as well as share what you have been up to at home with school.
You should have received an email (the email you registered for Parentmail with) enabling you to log onto your account.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Home Learning
Book bags need to be returned each Monday. We will return them to you by the following Thursday. Please use your QR code to access our Seesaw home learning page. Please complete and upload at least one of the listed activities each week. The children love to share their home learning with the other children each Monday morning. They especially like to watch video clips of their friend's learning at home. Please see a member of staff as soon as possible if you are having any problems accessing your Seesaw account.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Reception Team.
Many thanks for your continued support
The Reception Team
Phonics websites
Mr Mc is doing fun and interactive daily phonics lessons for children age 4-5. He focuses on new digraphs and has lots of different ways to revisit already learnt sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTcZnvuTeovlznioLRo0GOA/videos
https://monsterphonics.com/games/
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
Phonics apps
Jolly Phonics Lessons
Meet the alphablocks
Read with phonics games
First words sampler
Teach your monster to read
Maths websites
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics/numeracy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
Maths Apps
Kids counting
Maths Tree
Bugs and Numbers
Busy things
Maths ages 3-5
Maths YouTube videos
Jack Hartman
https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann
Monkey floss counting backwards from 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hD26XpuUCc
2D shape song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqUejf3D0
3D shape song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q
Numberjacks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWKuiktSh-V3E4ysPU0VC3Q
Numberblocks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPlwvN0w4qFSP1FllALB92w
Counting by 10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmEe0-_ex8
Counting by 5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ4jV14Oz5I
El Nombre for number formation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6RGn7x4ks
Money song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps