Welcome to Reception Orange
Staff
Miss J Albiston
Phase One Lead
BA (Hons) MA pending
Mrs J Lander
Nursery
Miss J Aspinall
Orange
PE Day & PE Kit
PE will take place on Tuesday.
Please ensure you child comes to school in their PE Kit on that day.
What's New
Download Timetable
Click below to have a look at our timetable for this half term.
Snack Money
Toast is available to purchase every day for snack time.
Snack costs £1.50 a week and should be paid at the beginning of the week using Parent Pay. Children are welcome to bring their own snack from home which is less than 110 calories. Please let your class teacher if your child will not be having toast.
Tuck Shop is available after school
on Wednesday and Friday.
Reading Books
Reading Books will usually be changed on a Friday. Please read with your child every night and sign their reading record.
Knowledge Organiser
A Knowledge Organiser is a summary of the key facts and essential knowledge that our children need to know to support their learning in their new topic.
Click below to download the Knowledge Organiser.
Homework
Complimentary to the Knowledge Organiser, our homework grid is a group of simple activities to carry out in and around your home.
Click below to download the Homework Grid.
Recent Terms Archive
WELCOME TO RECEPTION ORANGE
Our topic this half term is..
Overview
This half term, the children will be very busy covering a range of topics including Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day, King Charles’ birthday and Christmas. However, the focus topic for this half term is ‘Traditional Tales’. The children will be sharing a range of classic tales including; ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘Little Red Hen’, ‘Rosie’s Walk’, ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and ‘The Gingerbread Man’ before comparing and contrasting settings and characters with modern stories such as ‘Little Red and the Big Hungry Lion’.
Curriculum
At Bewsey Lodge, we use Development Matters as a starting point from which we deliver and broad and balanced curriculum that incorporates all areas of learning and aims to provide the children with experiences and insights into the world in which we live.
At the end of Reception, the children will be assessed, those who are working at age related expectations will achieve their Early Learning Goals for each of the areas of the curriculum.
Early Learning Goals
To support them in their learning, here is a little more information about what we will be covering this half term;
Communication and Language This half term, the children will continue to take turns in group discussions, practise good listening and being respectful of each other’s thoughts, feelings and ideas whilst offering relevant comments and ideas of their own.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development - With a heavy Personal, Social and Emotional Development focus, this topic will predominately centre around the children themselves and their lives including in RE, where the children will be learning about the Christian celebration of ‘Christmas’. The will hear the story of the first Christmas, talk about how Christmas is celebrated in different ways and why it is important. The children will then share the story of the nativity with friends and family with a Christmas performance.
This half term's Jigsaw topic is: Celebrating Difference!
Learning will include;
What I Am Good At
I’m Special, I’m Me
Families
Houses and Homes
Making Friends
Standing Up for Yourself
Physical Development - The children will have weekly PE lessons led by Mr Riley, these will mainly focus on gross motor skills as well as listening, following simple instructions and working as a team. Within the classroom setting, the children will be developing both their fine and gross motor skills with opportunities in all areas both inside and out. They will be focussing on how to use the equipment available to them both safely and appropriately.
Literacy (Reading and Writing) - This half term, the children will be working on using their alphabet sounds to blend for reading and segment for spelling. They will be making wanted posters, recounting instructions for baking, creating story maps and much more as they develop familiarity with a variety of traditional tales.
Maths - In maths this half term, the children will be counting to and manipulating numbers to 5, naming and comparing different 2d shapes and using positional language.
Vocabulary we will be using includes:
Compare, order, more, fewer, one, two, three, four, five, represent, match, equal, less than, more than, fewer than, same, different, circle, triangle, rectangle, square, sides, corners, same, length, in, on, under, next to, behind, in front of, up, down, across, near, far, forwards, backwards
Expressive Arts and Design (Music, Art and Design Technology) - The children will be creating their own poppy art work, baking, making Christmas cards and decorations. They will show their understanding of the stories they have heard by hot seating as different characters and acting out scenes using repeated refrains.
Understanding the World (History, Geography and Science) - The children will be experience the changes in the seasons first hand during their exploration of the school grounds describing what they see, hear and feel. They will be comparing and contrasting photographs of their surrounds to support their observations of the changes. The children will also be learning about some important figures from the past and present including Guy Fawkes, King Charles and the soldiers who we think about on November 11th.
Important Dates!
See school diary for more information!
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Phonics
From Autumn 2, your children will be in groups for Read Write Inc according to the sounds they know.
Here are some useful links for phonics games that can be completed on a laptop or tablet.
To Further Support your child this half term you can:
Write your their name in ALL of their belongings, it can be very difficult for the children to keep track of their belongings initially therefore unnamed items are easily lost.
Ensure that your child is appropriately dressed for the weather - we access our outdoor classroom whatever the weather.
Practise reading and writing the Reception High Frequency words with your child.
Share lots of books including your child's reading book, each night.
Practise getting dressed and undressed independently, for example taking a jumper off can be very tricky.