Reception

Welcome to Reception

The Class Teacher is Mrs McLaughlin.

Our Teaching Assistants are Miss Green and Mrs Mehta.

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Academic Year 2019-2020

Welcome to Reception Class

The Class Teacher is Miss Person 

Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Brooks and Ms Arshad

Welcome to Reception

Here at Eldon we teach a carefully structured curriculum based on the Development Matters and Early Learning Goals which offers a provision that builds on the children’s individual learning needs.

Through play, children have the opportunity to explore, investigate, discover, repeat, revise and consolidate their knowledge, skills and understanding.

Children’s current interests are taken into account at the beginning of each term to determine what the focus for the topic/s will be. The termly overview will be published when the focus has been determined.

Meet the Team:

Miss Pearson- Class Teacher   Mrs Brooks- Teaching Assistant    Miss Arshad- Teaching Assistant

Phonics

In Reception we teach phonics every day, following the Letters and Sounds scheme. Below are some resources to help with at home:

Phonics Song

Letter formation

Phonics Play Website

CVC Phoneme Frames:

Tricky Words:

Tricky Word Song

Fine Motor Skills

Maths

For Maths we follow White Rose

Maths Games

Number Formation

Number Formation Rhyme Cards

Things to do at home to help with your child’s learning:

Must

• Complete your Homework Talk Sheet every week and submit photos on Class Dojo
• Practise your reading each day; once you have read the books sent home please sign your child’s reading record.

Could

• Have fun learning outdoors
• Practise phonics and maths skills using the games on the linked websites
• Get creative! Use music, art, baking and your families to have fun

In our first half-term we have been exploring through play in lots of different ways and we’ve had a lot of fun. We’ve had a pirate visit our classroom, we’ve visited the 4D immersive room where we have had a go at yoga and listened to stories, we love to paint ad have created some fantastic monsters and taking our learning outside has been great fun.

Summer Term

We had a wonderful time last term, running our own cafe with real food and drink on the menu.

Down at the Burrow we were hunting for Minibeasts and observing nature as well as planting trees!

Autumn Term

The children have been learning all about pirates. We talked about questions we’d like to ask a pirate if we ever met one so we could find out all about them, we did a treasure hunt and counted all the gold coins and we really enjoyed drawing our own treasure maps so pirates could find their treasure. At the end of our topic a real pirate came to visit us. She was called Pirate Gingerplaits and she was fantastic, she showed us all her pirate bounty, she stole some treasure which she very kindly shared with us from her chest, I wonder how she knew we love chocolate coins. We even did a pirate dance with her, what fun we had!

We have Our Fancy Dress Party where we explored celebrations and celebrated Mrs Brook’s 40th

We had a fantastic time learning about Stickman where we wrote about Stickman, made him and came third in our Christmas Display with Stickman’s house.