Reception
Reception
Mrs Gott (Monday-Tuesday) and Miss Hanton (Wednesday-Friday)
Mrs Gott: corkill.h@welearn365.com
Miss Hanton: hanton.c@welearn365.com
Meet the staff
Reception Topics
Each term Reception have a general topic. We use each topic as a starting point, we then follow the children's interests and fascinations.
AUTUMN 1 | AUTUMN 2 | SPRING 1 | SPRING 2 | SUMMER 1 | SUMMER 2 | |
ALL ABOUT ME!
Starting school / getting to know my new class What do I like to do? Being me in my world My family Being kind and making friends Walking in the local area, where do we live? | CELEBRATIONS
Diwali Bonfire night Birthdays Christmas The Nativity Any other celebrations of interest, raised by the children | FAVOURITE STORIES
Share our favourite stories from home Discuss likes and dislikes, favourite parts Act out stories with puppets, Create story maps
| WHAT DO GROWN UPS DO ALL DAY? Find out what people at school do, in the office, the caretaker, lunchtime staff, head teacher. Find out what our families do, invite them in to talk to us. Find out about people in the community/ police, fire service, local shop
| GROWING
Plants & Flowers Weather / seasons Planting seeds, what do they need to grow Studying life cycles of a caterpillar Finding out about mini beasts
| WATER
Where is water found? What do we need water for? Water Aid Who lives under the sea? Marine life Pirates
|
Song of Sounds Phonics
In Reception we use a phonics scheme called Song of Sounds. We have a phonics lesson every day where we learn the skills we need to help us read and write.
A parent guide can be found by copying and pasting the link, you will find useful information explaining what phonics is, how we teach it in Reception and how you can help at home.
https://www.songofsounds.co.uk/page/?title=Parent+Guide&pid=14
Other resources are in the stars below
The Zones of Regulation
We use the Zones of Regulation to help us to identify and name our feelings. We also begin to learn the important skill of self regulation so that we can start to manage our own feelings.
Reception have been learning all about feelings, we have given different groups of feelings zones which are listed above. We have been learning to recognise different feelings and to understand that all feelings are ok.
We then talked about how to help ourselves regulate, feel ok and get back into the green zone. We shared our ideas
- Play with Lego
- Have a cuddle
- Look at a story
- Watch TV
- Take deep breaths
- Do yoga
- Go for a walk (with a grown up!)
- Be alone to calm down
- Talk to a grown up
- Have a rest
- Exercise
- Have a snack or drink
- Draw a picture
Our Visit to the Farm
We were very lucky to go to visit Harriet's Dad - Farmer Sam - on the farm. We asked him lots of questions to find out what he does all day. There were so many lambs - some of us were happy to give them a cuddle! We saw lots of machinery and had a turn in the tractor too.
Reception class were artists for the morning! During our learning celebration we found out about Andy Goldsworth's art in nature and then created some amazing pieces of art work of our own.
What do grown ups do all day?
This half term we are finding out what grown ups do all day. We have lots of different visitors who are going to come and tell us what they do.
Pancake Day
Having read Mr Wolf's Pancakes, we worked together to measure the ingredients to make pancake batter. We all loved having a go at tossing the pancakes. They went everywhere - on the floor, on the radiator, on shoes, on heads, and even on the washing machine door! Everyone then enjoyed eating a fresh pancake.
Supertato and The Evil Pea!
Reception class had a visit from The Evil Pea at the start of the week, watch as the adventure unfolds.....
Ice Ornaments
Reception class made the most of the icy weather by making ice ornaments. First we collected foliage in the forest. Then we chose pieces to make our ornament with, we put them in our dishes and covered them with water. We put in a piece of string. Then we left them over night. In the morning they were frozen solid, we hung them on our tree. They looked beautiful!
Reception's Nativity Play!
Reception listen to the story of the Nativity. We then wrote a script, chose our parts and performed our own Nativity! We were very brave and performed in front of the rest of the school and our families.
Reception wore odd socks for Odd Socks Day to celebrate our uniqueness, we are all different and special!
Reception have been learning about Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, we all made Divas to hold our candles
Reception class' corridor display - Self porttraits
Autumn Poems
IMG_0626.mov
IMG_0624.mov
IMG_0632.mov
IMG_0631.mov
Our First Day
We all thoroughly enjoyed our first day in Reception. We have had fun exploring our new environment, learning new routines, and have already begun to make new friends.
