Reception Team - Mrs Gill, Mrs Stone, Mrs Jackson, Miss Coote, Mrs Neea, Mrs Judge

& Mrs Townsend

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!

This Half Term

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

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 start to develop our 'book talk' - learning about the Title, the Author and Illustrator, and the blurb. We will practise our listening skills as we listen carefully to the story and show our understanding by answering questions. We will work with '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 undertsand 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.

Listen to the song together here: 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 sounds! You can practise at home using the videos! The links for each sound are below. 

Links for the RWI Videos with Ellie & Fred are now live and will be active until 28th December. These links are for the Speed Sounds & Special Friends in the order they are taught. We will send the sounds that the children need to practise via Marvellous Me 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

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/vkXyOrQG/VF1elG9c

Speed Sound: a

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/sLrbXCkG/KJgB39Rg

Speed Sound s:

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/48XB5VEK/qIlhGEWp

Speed Sound d:

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/HW9GmVDj/EXsSrCXy

Speed Sound: t

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QUH6gPlC/dC1m5oTl

Speed Sound: i

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/XGpwWaHt/HVHPvBJI

Speed Sound: n

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/TfyjeYNu/vXRkkQvs

Speed Sound: p 

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/W9vQrqpB/jZ2HwXzf

Speed Sound: g

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/GN41QC76/P7ZvGY4i

Speed Sound:o 

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/YxSlMzyV/J0mxJzsv

Speed Sound: c

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ec4k98WY/K4Va9Ep4

Speed Sound: k

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Ehp7rGYR/6QOnsWF7

Speed Sound: u

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/n5ECIgfg/AZNi5mup

Speed Sound: b

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/EAHypyxv/lixkiiiZ

Speed Sound: f

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IENky2I9/IT00e0XQ

Speed Sound: e

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5f7Y13tO/FeAY8MO3

Speed Sound: l 

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/HHV3FmTU/xHOR5KAI

Speed Sound: h

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/NOJ1mHdW/WphMtNfZ

Speed Sound: r

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/w6GgMLsb/wyrCoPLa

Speed Sound: j

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/BuWTXilw/s9r2e8gm

Speed Sound: v

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/dV1DmvAE/jo22j83H

Speed Sound: w

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/CR7BDVTZ/ihq1aU0O

Speed Sound: y

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DJwbBeSD/Dr7tmjUM

Speed Sound: z

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/NacXjet2/AoWhnca8

Speed Sound: x

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/XmM62IWK/Wy8fNekR

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's Food Cupboard

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JjBwOsVK/8V2J55hp

Body Parts:

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/BsYJEkKO/VNXBoc2U

Fred's Body Parts 2

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/bzDK7Vo7/2H8UNlnZ

Aquarium

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/q4Hsp6TC/MT8NIcGZ

Fred says Actions

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/0bK2Mft6/Rbe5UzBf

Actions 2

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/FAiCzfW3/QQKCjXQL

Actions 3

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IxtCitEq/hHcX8VXi

Fred says What's on the Farm?

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/6IgGcYye/y2NLUbFz

Fred says Colours

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/gBcccFk7/tqRvbQTK

Fred's Party

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/biWgXXKD/cSMsYx25

Fred goes to the town

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/P44NBKDN/beC75Zxf

Fred's Weather

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/SO9IPEBv/XBs9obw6

Weather 2

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/SO9IPEBv/XBs9obw6

Fred in the Woods

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/k0VLWEgl/Md3IRZ5L

Fred at the Zoo

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/RP8tMCyR/q8eHPTTD

Fred's Feelings

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/cg6FIoj2/zzM6XqdR

Feelings 2

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/FPac1N4F/QMrJy1WI

Fred's Bedroom

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/MlFoZk7U/B6jK4lK8

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