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Reception

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

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

Reception Baseline Parent Leaflet

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

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

 

We are Readers!

                                             

We will be continuing with 'Where's My Teddy' by Jez Alborough for the first few weeks until we move on to 'Tiddler' written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. 

Both books will be providing the base for 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 '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 will also meet 'Rex Retriever' who helps us retrieve information from the text so we can show our understanding of what we have read. 

 

We are Scientists!

We are going to be investigating the wonderful world of Animals. This will include links to the different habitats that animals live in such as the Ocean, the Desert, the Rainforest and the Polar Regions. We will learn about how animlas adapt to their environments and how their diets are different in each habitat. David Attenborough will be a frequent visitor to us in this topic!

 

 

We are Geographers!

This term we will be learning about the area where we live and go to school! We will explore our own school grounds and our links to Rough Wood. We will learn about using fieldwork and observational skills to find human (put there by humans such as buildings) and physical features (occurring naturally) of our local area. We will learn about maps and how to create our own maps.

 

We are Artists!

Our Art learning will centre around the art of Painting! Our key Artist will be Paul Klee and the story 'The Cat and the Bird' by Geraldine Elschner & Peggy Nille. 

The illustrations in this story are by Paul Klee. We will focus on the piece ‘Cat and Bird’ as this piece of art inspired the story. The children will then sketch their own interpretation of Cat and Bird.

 

We will also continue to:

  • keep our eye on the weather every day and watching for changes in the season as we move from Autumn into Winter discussing what changes we notice as time passes. 
  • Learn about the past (something that has already happened), the present (what is happening now) and the future (what will happen next) through our daily calendar sessions. 

 

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 Smartie the Penguin who teaches us how technology can be used to communicate online, appropriate behaviour online and reporting inappropriate online behaviour

For digital literacy we will be learning about all the different devices that can be used to access the internet. 

 

We will also visit the Pantosaurus again, 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 What stories are special and why?

 

In PE we will be focussing on Games through our topic'Best of Balls.' This involves moving balls, rolling, throwing, hitting a target, using rackets, scoring goals. 

 

Home Learning - Reading Every Day!

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!! 

Letter Formation with Handwriting Phrases

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/qEbfPWbf/Xr8IApdA

 

Speed Sound: a

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5IlEkiFu/lTCCa40I

 

Speed Sound s:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/DZ3fCpsG/heOdjMRa

 

Speed Sound d:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/3txLsv9z/FcStEz5y

 

Speed Sound: t

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5M6qdMJN/3T7peoDK

 

Speed Sound: i

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/jSAZtNSm/reneLjv0

 

Speed Sound: n

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/7fhIqft4/iIE2g7Jo

 

Speed Sound: p 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JlLHX6ST/husDehN0

 

Speed Sound: g

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Qnz2VVOz/Dj3BFHGB

 

Speed Sound:o 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/OPI30ziM/5KE9widP

 

Speed Sound: c

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/jFOnZJht/OduLB8P2

 

Speed Sound: k

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/1MGH1Vku/CKCXdnAe

 

Speed Sound: u

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/BO9Uf1mx/ivT0Dl1C

 

Speed Sound: b

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/v8tYhUiu/hwnWkd5U

 

Speed Sound: f

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/s8CbpVOe/jZhURsJB

 

Speed Sound: e

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/rup7X6WK/2RaOmQfL

 

Speed Sound: l 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/gsNJNoYs/jT2WYZtc

 

Speed Sound: h

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/80eqvrhk/w0uMid9t

 

Speed Sound: r

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JjrrZI2f/HlDuISOt

 

Speed Sound: j

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5uaoG1E1/F6kZAATX

 

Speed Sound: v

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/p3Ov5DAc/agHDWkDt

 

Speed Sound: w

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/RS8040f8/xHfUJBDh

 

Speed Sound: y

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/cdQaTFXm/QGojIbQk

 

Speed Sound: z

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/HlKEOakc/P4oIJlhz

 

Speed Sound: x

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/kzZq6w5V/a44Ws1mf

 

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: 

Fred says Body Parts:

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/IQn8WfSl/hHgMRYkV

 

Fred says What's in Fridge?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/pnJvtF9n/uYQ2N5JR

 

Fred says Actions

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/JHwHLNTE/oEDqmdkP

 

Fred says What's in the Toybox?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/xXFAdPZs/hmcS7rCQ

 

Fred says What's on the Farm?

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/oxfK1vMj/R8dL6EWF

 

Fred says Colours

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Q3610kg5/jSVEood5

 

 

 

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

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