Reception
Welcome to Year R:
Wren and Robin
Welcome back to our second term!
Welcome to year R! We hope you find the information below useful as your child continues their learning journey with us! This information will help you support your child at home with the organisation of their week and their learning at home.
Key Times
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Homework |
Homework will be set every half term. Your child will be asked to work on a number of projects, designed to enrich the learning taking place in school. This approach to homework has been designed to enable you and your child to work together in a creative way and to develop a love of learning. Please see the homework document for Spring 2. |
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PE |
In year R, the PE day is Monday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit on these days. Please ensure you REMOVE all earrings on a Monday. Please ensure ALL PE kit is named. |
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Trips |
We are very excited to be going on our first school trip this term to Crystal Palace Park for a treasure hunt. Thank you to all those parents who have offered their help and support. We still need more parent helpers, so please do let us know if you are free to help. |
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Key Times |
The school gates open at 8:30 in the morning. Soft start begins at 8:45-9:00am. In EYFS, children will be dismissed at the end of the day at 3:15pm. |
Homework
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Read it |
Research it |
Make it |
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We would like to say a huge thank you to all those who have been reading at home and leaving comments in the reading journal. This is one of the most important things you can do to help your child’s development. Please keep encouraging your child to sound out words as you share the books that we send home from school – they are all fantastic at phonics, so you are helping them to apply their phonics knowledge. If you could read some traditional tales at home over this half term (fairytale stories) it would be greatly appreciated. |
Our topic this term is Let’s Pretend. Your child could read traditional tales that they know and then read some of their parents/carers favourites. What are the similarities and the differences? Ask your child to think about the language being used or the characters that they discover. Can you imagine an alternative ending? |
Choose your favourite object from a traditional tale and make it to show your classmates. Would you like to make a bowl of porridge from the three bear’s house? Perhaps you want to make the shoe that Cinderella lost, or a little red hood. Encourage your child to practice talking about the object so that they feel really confident to tell their friends about it.
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Practise it |
Write it |
Design it |
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This half term we will be talking about doubling, halving and sharing in maths. We will think about the relationship between these operations. Practical resources are the most effective way of helping your child to learn maths concepts. If you have a number of objects (coins, food, natural resources) you can talk about doubling and halving day to day. |
It is time to put the brilliant writing we have learned into practice. Can you use your brilliant imagination to write a story? Think about the character, where they will go, who they will meet and what they will do. I wonder if you can use any exciting language. |
Can you design your own fairy tale house? Think about the cottage that Goldilocks turned up to, or the houses that the three little pigs built. What will your house look like? Talk with your child about the materials they will need to use to build their house. |
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A note to parents, Over the course of this half term please work with your child to complete the above. Each of the activities has been designed to support, enhance and enrich an aspect of the curriculum. We are looking forward to seeing the results of your work together. Thank you! |
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What are we learning?
Welcome back to our second term in Reception. We are very excited to start a new topic and learn all about Traditional Tales! We shall be working with our friends to imagine and create our very own stories on Miss Weeks’ Fairytale castle and in Mr Brown’s Bears house. This term the books that we will read will include:
Cinderella
Goldilocks and the three bears
Three little pigs
We will talk about the characters in the story and explore the settings. We will use exciting language to describe them and have a go at writing our very own stories using story maps. We will continue to use our phonics for spelling and practise our letter formation. In Maths we will be concentrating on halving and sharing and we will learn to use vocabulary that is linked with the topics.
We will be discussing various celebrations this term and we look forward to exploring St.Patricks day and making props for this celebration.
We will have a look at different places around the world and see what type of weather they have, what kind of trees or flowers they have and why?
How can I help at home?
One of the key ways every parent can help is to ensure that your child is at school every day and on time. Other than this, the main way you can help is by ensuring that your child reads every day, for at least 10 minutes with you, it is the most effective way of ensuring that your child progresses and learns outside of school.
Additional Information
This term we will be making own our houses. Please may we have any of your recyclable materials from home so that we can use this as junk modelling. Thank you!
At the end of every term, we will invite you in to share your child’s learning with them and to look at their books. This term the date for this will be Wednesday 3rd April at 3pm.
In Reception, we are keen explorers and spend lots of time in the garden. We will go out no matter what the weather! As the weather, gets colder and wetter please ensure your child is in school with a waterproof coat. We ask all children to keep a pair of named wellington boots at school to use throughout the year. Please pass these on to your class teacher.
We would like to invite you into class on Friday mornings from 8:45-9:20 to read with the children. Everyone is welcome and no notice is needed, just show up!
If you have any questions, please talk to Mr Brown or Miss Weeks.
Thank you,
Mr Brown and Miss Weeks
