Reception
Reception

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Purple Mash

Class Curriculum

Spring Term 2 (2024)

Welcome back to our Reception class in the second half of the spring term. We are excited to continue learning together!

During this half term, we will focus on building relationships, becoming more independent and enjoying our classroom and outdoor setting. We will experience an exciting range of opportunities and continue to find out about our next steps to develop as curious learners.

We continue to focus on the prime areas of learning (Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development) to underpin everything we do. In addition we will plan and experience many activities and opportunities to enhance the specific areas of learning (Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design).

Daily phonics sessions will continue. We now follow our Little Wandle phonics and reading programme. We are making such good progress and now books are sent home weekly, after reading the book three times at school. Children also enjoy bringing home a library book each week. Our phonics focus this half term will be on consolidating new letter sounds, especially digraphs and trigraphs and reading them in longer words.

Our Talk for writing focus this half term will be The Gingerbread Man. We will learn to tell the story together, adding actions too. We will use a story map to look at when telling the story. Then we will deepen our understanding through practical activities to explore the settings, characters and structure of the story. This is a good way to develop develop Talk for writing. As writers, we will explore how to use our phonic knowledge to write simple words and sentences. We even have a themed day out soon!

As mathematicians, we will explore representing numbers beyond five and finding 1 more and 1 less. We will and explore length and height. We will learn about doubles and number patterns. We will build with 9 and 10 and then find out about 3D shapes.

Our topic for this half term will be Ready, Steady grow – This project teaches children about food and farming and explores themes, including where food comes from, what plants and animals need to grow and survive and what constitutes a healthy lifestyle.

 

We continue as nature detectives and we will make use of our amazing school grounds through a mini topic Signs of Spring. This project teaches children about the changes that happen during the spring, including weather and the festivals that are celebrated at this time of year.

 

Things to remember:

Please bring a drink of water every day for snack time/lunch

The weather can still be unpredictable so bring outdoor clothing to cope with this – rain coats for those wet days and especially warm coats/hats/gloves for cold days.

As we are progressing well with our reading programme, please continue to read every day and write comments in the reading diary. This should include time for sharing your sounds in your phonics book, reading your Little Wandle book and looking at your sharing book from the library.

Remember to check the website for our weekly class blog and homework activities. We love it when you leave us a message too as we read them out in our class.

Please come to school wearing your P.E kit on a Wednesday.

We will welcome children through our blue gate from 8.45-8.55 in the morning. Please leave your child with staff at the gate and we will settle the in to school.

If you have any questions or you would like to send me information about any of your learning at home, please contact me by email.

Mrs Puddick