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Reception

Reception Class 2024-25

 

Welcome to Reception

Here you will find all the information you need to know about the learning taking place in Reception.

This terms topic is Under the Sea/ Pirates/ Moving On

‘Sea Life Explorers’ activities you can try at home: 

  • Listen to and talk about non-fiction books about sea creatures. Invite children to explore new vocabulary and ask questions to find out more information.
  • Encourage your child to act like a range of sea creatures to explore different ways of moving. Can they move side ways like a crab, dive like a dolphin, swim like a fish, bounce like a jellyfish or thrash like a shark?
  • Provide some salt dough or clay along with star-shaped cookie cutters and rolling pins. Invite your child to make starfish. They can use tools to make marks in the dough to add texture to their starfish.
  • Decorate some clothes pegs to look like sharks. Your child can practise their small motor skills by opening and closing the pegs to collect pom-poms to place into bowls.
  • Write some graphemes onto shells and place them in the water tray. Challenge the children to find the shells they need to build CVC/CVCC words.
  • Hide these ‘Red’ words under a layer of blue-coloured sand or rice. Invite children to find and read the words.
  • Provide white crayons and watery blue paint. Encourage children to write secret messages for a friend. They can paint over the crayon with the paint to reveal the message.
  • Provide a range of shells in different colours or shapes. Encourage the children to continue, copy and create repeating patterns using the shells.
  • Provide a ten-frame with small world fish of two different colours. Invite children to explore number bonds to ten by placing the fish onto the ten-frame. 
  • Provide bottles, funnels and jugs in a water tray/ bath with blue-coloured water. Invite children to explore and compare capacity as they make ‘sea bottles’.  
  • Encourage children to make observations of different sea creatures. How are they similar? How are they different?
  • Freeze some small world sea creatures into ice. Encourage children to use warm water and simple tools to free the sea creatures and talk about what happens as the ice melts. 
  • Talk about animals under the sea blowing bubbles. Explore bubble painting with the children. 
  • Explore wax resist paintings. Provide children with white wax crayons and white paper. Invite them to draw an underwater scene and then paint over the top with watery blue paint to create a sea picture.


‘Pirates’ activities that you can do at home: 

  • Create and support them to follow the instructions to find the treasure.
  • Play a pirate-themed ‘What if…?’ game with the children. Support the children to discuss their answers to the ‘What if’ questions, such as ‘What if pirates came to our school?’
  • Practise balancing and jumping with a ‘walk the plank’ game. Children can walk across a bench or other balancing equipment and jump off, landing in the ‘sea’ (a blue piece of material).
  • Write a selection of real and nonsense words on coins and provide a treasure chest or bin. Children can sort the words.
  • Create two piles of pirate treasure. Ask the children to estimate how much treasure is in each pile and say which has the most and fewest. Check how much is in each pile by counting out the treasure from each pile.
  • Look at a sea-themed painting. This could show a shipwreck or a storm. After discussing the painting with the children, provide them with instruments. Use the instruments to respond to different parts of the painting, for example a beating drum for the thunder and a xylophone for the lightning.  

For details about the curriculum coverage of our overview please click here 

We will be sharing the text Oi Frog by Kes Gray.  Please see Literacy Pathways ( related pages) for more detail on this book.  

 White Rose curriculum in Maths and the Reception topic overview can be found on the Maths Curriculum page.

For a more detailed curriculum coverage for the year please click here

PE days will be on Thursday.  Please  come to school wearing your PE kit on these days, but bring your school uniform in a separate bag for you to change into if you get wet during your PE lesson. 

The class will be covered by Mrs Saunders and Mr Boardman on Thursday mornings.  

Please ensure you bring your reading diary and reading book to school every day.  

Other helpful reminders:

Snacks: Fresh fruit or vegetables

Water bottles-Labelled and not to be kept in book bags please.

Book bags-Please send them to school daily.   

Our library day is on Monday.

As the weather changes, please ensure your child has a coat with them every day.  We will be going outside for a lot of our learning.  If the children have wellington boots we will change them from school shoes so that they can enjoy being outdoors without the fear of wet feet!

We have talked about learning how to put on and take off our coats independently. 

We would appreciate your support with this.

***Please upload photographs to Tapestry if you wish to do so.

We look forward to sharing all the activities that your child does at home. ***

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Mrs Dhariwal , Mrs Bhatti, Mrs Evans and Miss Sinclair. 

For general things e.g. lost jumper, wearing trainers because shoes are too small etc, please contact the class teacher using the messaging function on Tapestry.  

For more significant concerns or worries, please email secretary@nshprimary.co.uk

with FAO Mrs Dhariwal in the subject.

Any changes to school pick up should go through the school office.

EYFS Topic Map and Progression of skills 2024

Maths Pathways to learning

 

 

  • Letters and Sounds Phase 3 phonic games to help children learn to read, write and spell.

  • Oxford Owl Packed with free eBooks and activities to help you support your child's reading and maths at home.