Reception Team - Mrs Jackson, Miss Coote, Miss Bennett, Mrs Neea, Miss Hancock & Mrs Judge.

Mrs Gill, Mrs Stone, Mrs Townsend & Mrs Uppal.

The 'Reception Baseline Assessments' this week 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

We are Readers!

Our Class text this term is called A Forest by Marc Martin which will be providing the base for our learning across a few of our subjects. We will continue 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 continue to work with our Dog Domain Friends such as:

'Rex Retriever' who helps us retrieve information from the text so we can show our understanding of what we have read. 

‘Sequencing Suki’ who helps us put the main points of the story in the right order so that we can retell it.

‘Inference Iggy’ who can help us decide how a character is feeling or what a character is feeling.

'Predicting Pip' who helps us to guess what the story might be about and what will happen next as 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 are Artists!

Our Artist this term is Henri Matisse and our artistic method is Collage. We will be studying Matisse’s collage ‘Painting with Scissors.’ We will explore painting paper & then cutting it as a form of recycling. We will refine our scissor skills to create trees and a city scape from our class text ‘A Forest’ by Marc Martin

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We are Gymnasts!

In PE we will be learning to travel in different ways. We will explore how we can jump, hop, skip and bounce while moving over equipment and balancing. We will learn these different styles of roll: the egg roll, pencil roll, dish roll and teddy bear roll. We aim to create a sequence of movements and perform these for our class mates.

Healthy Me! We can Talk about being healthy

In Jigsaw we are focussed on how to be healthy. Our aims by the end of this topics will be: I know I must exercise and rest to keep my body healthy. I can make healthy choices and know which foods I need, I know that it is important to sleep and stay clean by washing my hands and cleaning my teeth. I am aware of stranger danger.

This term we are launching our new Reading Records and the links to the RWI videos that we use to support the children at home with their phonics learning - Fred & Elly! The links will be sent out via the MarvellousMe app and will match what the children are learning in school. We ask that the children watch and join in with at least one video per day (approx 7 minutes) and that parents write how they got on in their Reading Record. 

Please see the Reading Workshop leaflet that was given out - a copy is also attached above - as this will provide support for using these materials at home. Anything you are not sure of please ask the Reception Team!! 

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

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/2mwij0M0/G4HEdsEF

Speed Sound: a

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/lFlbEnFk/p4CvB2i1

Speed Sound s:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/GioHnDit/6FdRhLgj

Speed Sound d:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/uLMpobcs/PVxi62dk

Speed Sound: t

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/V7MtDpke/gX8hrEju

Speed Sound: i

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/7ZUpsrHl/2lZptPpm

Speed Sound: n

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QBAt6Lix/inrtyoRN

Speed Sound: p 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ujPfszSv/319c6Hm9

Speed Sound: g

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/AEsO8JHH/5fltwq4K

Speed Sound:o 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/qYPCd1YX/u3qbeYTl

Speed Sound: c

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/dwGeSMOn/Hi72jTe2

Speed Sound: k

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/d98lfYZF/mpxqnVeV

Speed Sound: u

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/TQO0WPTB/TMjoh7Xr

Speed Sound: b

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/dSMIyoQs/r5Lzy5oW

Speed Sound: f

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/rZtoZ8cD/dJVHK1ld

Speed Sound: e

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/wrGJ6UDp/xKKgWOuA

Speed Sound: l 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/98dCMZCD/uLII8bfY

Speed Sound: h

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/od7vlIR2/MzTblS2a

Speed Sound: r

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/mPKRAYiX/RQCPH0H2

Speed Sound: j

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/LKhze8J6/nvnB6Vpa

Speed Sound: v

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Xe8MChMq/FKw9Ga60

Speed Sound: w

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/E73WHt4g/LXDtqJGb

Speed Sound: y

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/AEy6tXVW/ipI8sykJ

Speed Sound: z

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/tJXV5kcQ/iD8UMZhJ

Speed Sound: x

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/X5h3fooy/qAE1oZfm

Special Friends:

sh - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/sscaqocl/gRwHuLV2

th - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Q4NSrNG0/09P0HajZ

ch - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/G5AU1ttP/RHbNwr2e

qu - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/HEIUT577/BzjXElpw

ng - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/wKWV52Jd/6G0wYTLO

nk - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DIrfBafQ/ToVwBffm

ck - https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/2uVJHZw6/0D7RMrMb

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: 

Christmas Special:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/PpHwvP4e/bdC1E6Kg

Fred says Body Parts:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/2CDn1MQK/SJTHTvl0

Fred's Body Parts 2

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/YuGMEXOU/CGIKUie6

Fred says What's in Fridge?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QN4etAsr/IEnGl3EM

Fred says Actions

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/qMJvLo2b/vUA6p7Fa

Fred says What's in the Toybox?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/bYzDAnSc/EZyh2VyC

Fred says What's on the Farm?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/g3HXKySP/VxB6V3MV

Fred says Colours

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/MDVAAlF7/U3iIvLvl

Fred's Party

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/MDVAAlF7/U3iIvLvl

Fred goes to the woods

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/jtgVMbfv/0iw04Flx

Fred's Weather

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/VOm85D1S/ntPTbLLx

Fred's Garden

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/0szOy1Tf/Kao5Fqkz

Fred at the Zoo

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/KG1LcSsl/1hI5jhqk

Fred's Feelings

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/bNEcRfXw/Rb4dorVP

Fred's food

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IEkwTBtc/vpMYGmG9

Fred's Bedroom

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/sZJNFMLE/RuzMPIkx

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