Reception Team - Mrs Gill, Mrs Stone, Mrs Jackson and Miss Coote

reception@woodlands.walsall.sch.uk 

The 'Reception Baseline Assessments' will be undertaken in the next few weeks. This is a statutory assessment which the Department for Education ask all schools to undertake. It is short, practical and fun for the children. We do not get ‘results’ from this baseline and we will continue to make our own judgements of our children’s abilities over this half term.  If you have any questions let the Reception Team know!

Our Learning for this Half Term

Throughout this half term we will be delving into the world of our Learning Adventure:  Marvellous Me! 

         

We are Clever Writers!

                                                                                                                                 

We are beginning our writing journey by learning how to sit at a table ready to write and hold our pencils. As we learn our letter sounds in RWI, we will also learn how to form each letter. We will all learn how to form the letters in our names.

 

We are Readers!

Our key text that we will be focusing on is 'Where's my Teddy?' by Jez Alborough 

This is providing the base for learning across a few of our subjects. We will be exploring our 'book talk' - learning about the Title, the Author and Illustrator, and the blurb. We will meet 'Predicting Pip' who helps us to guess what the story might be about and what will happen next as we we read through. Predicting is an important part of the reading process and helps the children to use clues from the text to think about the story. 

We Recognise Emotions!

For the first few weeks, we will be focussing on our Personal, Social and Emotional Development as we settle in to our new class and life in Reception. We will learn about our feelings and how we manage the different feelings we have, how we belong to different groups (family, school etc), how to be a good friend, kindness and how we can be responsible. 

 

We are Historians!

We then move on to our History topic where we will introduce the children to the concept of 'the past.' The past describes a time that has already happened so yesterday, a year ago and billions of years ago are all examples of the past. We will focus on our own past and look at when we were babies and how we have changed over time. We will also learn about the different families that we belong to and how are families are the same or different to each other. We will create our family tree to show the different generations of our family. 

 

We are Artists!

Our Art learning will centre around the Artist L. S. Lowry. We will explore some of Lowry's most famous work and the style that he used to draw and paint people and buildings. We will then see if we can recreate Lowry's style with our own pictures of matchstick figures! 

 

We are Scientists!

We then move on to Science where we will be learning about 'Forces.' We will carry out simple investigations to find out how things move and behave in different situations such as floating or sinking in water, how sand and water runs through a sand or water wheel, how toys move in the wind and how wheeled toys move along ramps set at different heights - so much experimenting! 

We will also be keeping our eye on the weather every day and watching for changes in the season as we move into Autumn - what changes do we notice as time passes?

 

We can Stay Safe!

In Computing we are going to be looking at online safety and learning how we can stay safe when we are on our own devices. This includes the story of Digi Duck's Big Decision which will help the children understand the importance of sharing information online in a safe and sensible way.  For digital literacy we will be learning about all the different devices that can be used to access the internet. 

We will also meet the Pantosaurus a dinosaur that teaches us how to keep ourselves safe, happy and healthy - what is in your pants is private and nobody should ask to see or try to touch your private parts unless they are a trusted adult! The Pantosaurus teaches us a song about this and what to do if somebody does something that makes us feel unsafe - we tell a grown up that we trust! This adult can be at home or in school.

Link to pants rule video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lL07JOGU5o

In RE we will be exploring the concept of Special People - who is special to us and why?

In PE we will be off to the Jungle for our Gym in the Jungle gymnastics theme. 

 

 

                                                                          

This term we are learning our set 1 pictures and set 1 letter sounds! You can practise at home using the videos! The links for each sound are below. 

How to Say Pure Sounds for Parents/Carers

It is important that children say the sounds we are learning correctly. To help our adults who are supporting at home please watch this quick video about how to say each sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3KYZcqgSFE

The sounds are taught in groups as follows:

m, a, s, d, t

p, i, n, g, o

c, k, u, b, f

e, l, h, r, j

w, y, z, x

Use the video to familiarise yourselves with the pure sounds as they are taught to your child - they will soon be telling you off if you don't say them correctly!!!! 

RWI Picture Cards

Name the pictures 1  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/M9WokazD/1LvWEghO

Name the pictures 2  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ncMKIkKJ/8Td6dx8b         

Name the pictures 3   https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/fUTeAgaV/93HNNOxa          

Name the pictures 4  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/nxDEETK7/3atoXe6Y

 

RWI Set 1 Sounds 

Links for the RWI Videos with Ellie & Fred are now live and will be active until  21st December. These links are for the Speed Sounds & Special Friends in the order they are taught. We will let you know which sounds the children need to practise each week. 

Some children will know these well and some children will still be learning them - all practise is very helpful to them!

Please only practise the sounds your teacher has sent for you to learn at home! 

 

Speed Sound: m https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/pC7pHSPt/jOjcQtuz

Speed Sound: a https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ah4ZDHH8/LpMlByy8   

Speed Sound: s https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5xKb3JYO/yesFIOvB        

Speed Sound: d   https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/o8X2GHvz/iUhMQaI0

Speed Sound: t  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JGGOOPjb/LTltuuen                       

Speed Sound: i    https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/bcEv82Gx/Oi4TsTVe    

Speed Sound: n    https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/8sjoZ52D/JP6Ympf4     

Speed Sound: p   https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/dB8lm2F5/GKHGUKeN     

Speed Sound: g   https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ecg0r0IW/t9vG1vOs       

Speed Sound: o https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/skAekopk/XomrkADT

Speed sound: c https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/oqHuZJOw/m4nJ4ACu

Speed Sound: k https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/yo4HH2Bc/VPQaJaea

Speed Sound: u  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/0mJnkQvc/nOyLy6Re

Speed Sound: b  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DrqVtwNC/jC4splRn

Speed Sound: f  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DZIlwMlB/XYpEa7bS

Speed Sound: e  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IrfUElvS/NGTKMUQa

Speed Sound: l https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/KbA29sbf/LpZddJHX

Speed Sound: h  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/2vdsd5c2/h6AsvPi6

Speed Sound: r  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/vHp2Rac6/Pw5J3xsn

Speed Sound: j https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ATQhv5Yh/WJmWbtp3

Speed Sound: w  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/uuRjPDJD/cDQswYT7

Speed Sound: y  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/EU2pHwXt/4WrpbvJT

Speed Sound: z  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/xARjsVao/tadBMHdR

Speed Sound: x  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/FMhtMIIW/Zj8QmJ9o

 

Fred Games 

These games help our children to orally blend sounds into words. Copy the adult in the video - say the sounds and then the word. Some children need to say the sounds a few times before they can hear the word, pausing the video after each new word will allow more time to answer. 

Here are the links: 

 

Fred Says Body Parts 1: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/XcjbFML6/eBmdEHXU

Fred Says Fred's Fridge: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/rQUhtFyw/iJRzRnyy

Fred Says Actions: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ztNwWpqc/WOKgANJK

Fred Says Fred's Toybox:  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/mNVztVaT/08hQnlNs

Fred's Farm Adventure: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/AdeSS6rb/azNmYuJ9

Fred Says Colours  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/umtvKi8k/OO1EBWjZ

Fred Days Party https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/pH8FSxDd/hVH1WF72

Fred Says Woods Adventure  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/PKPWrssU/3Vpy0CPr

Fred Says Weather  https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/0sHJOnM7/D5Gf2W2c

Fred Says Garden https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IWYVySxh/4kkcSVi1

Fred Says Zoo Adventure https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/V2y38XAC/0gzeyxFa

Fred Says Feelings https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/SpqFTpra/fLo8SqWv

Fred Says Fred's Food Cupboard https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/lTmaLOmr/eOxUqOfE

Fred Says Fred's Bedroom https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/6DL2UxMS/Smb08JZq

Fred Says Body Parts 2: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/RwNIDs8G/E2RIHvM

Have fun and remember lots of practise makes progress!!!