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Reception

Reception Team

Mrs Evans - Head of Year

Granite class - Miss Leetham / Mrs Delieu

Marble - Miss Howes

Quartz - Mrs Evans

RECEPTION:  Topics

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Getting to know each other and our families / Baseline

Seasons and Celebrations

We Are Storytellers: Story telling and developing a love of stories and books 

Animals: Native wildlife and caring for animals in our local environment

Real Life Super Heroes in our community

Dinosaurs: Changes over time

Enrichment Opportunities

Share photos of family: cultural diversity

Home school books

Woodland Explorers

Parents/carers invited to attend stay and play

Diwali: visitor

Local church visit

KS2 children talk to Reception children

Perform Christmas songs to family and friends

Woodland Explorers

Author / illustrator visitor

Visit local library

Woodland Explorers

Parent and child stay and read session

Cooking soup

Number Day

Animal visit school

Butterflies in school

Owl visit

World book day

Woodland Explorers

Visitors, exploring occupations: Dental Nurse, Fire brigade, Police dogs, Paramedic

Woodland Explorers

Visit to Lesnes Abbey Woods: Going on a Dinosaur Hunt!-introduction to next terms topic.

Sports week

Dinosaur performer

Woodland Explorers

Local park visit

A typical day includes:

Registration & routines / expectations
Pastoral support – children know who to go to if they need help or reassurance.
Teaching inputs
Activities in the indoor and outdoor learning environments
Child initiated activities
Adult-led focus activities to ascertain development and set next steps for learning.
Physical Education
Children are expected to wear their PE kit to school on their PE days. If your child cannot take part in PE, we need a signed letter confirming the reason/reasons why. Please make ensure your child has the appropriate PE kit.
 

 

Please see below a list of suggested texts to read with your child.

 

 

Pie Corbett Reading SpineTexts

Beyond reading spine: topic related books

Whatever Next – Jill Murphy

Six Dinner Sid – Inga Moore

Mr Grumpy’s Outing – John Burningham

Handa’s Surprise – Eileen Browne

Goodnight Moon – MW Brown

On The Way Home – Jill Murphy

Rosie’s Walk – Pat Hutchins

Owl Babies – Martin Waddell

Farmer Duck - Martin Waddell

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch – Ronda and David Armitage 

The Lion Inside – Rachel Bright 

I Want My Potty! – Tony Ross 

There’s a Bear on My Chair – Ross

The Pea and the Princess – Mini Grey

One Snowy Night – Nick Butterworth

A Treasury of Songs – Julia Donaldson

 

Squash and Squeeze – Julia Donaldson

Hattie and the Fox – Me Fox

What the Ladybird Heard - Julia Donaldson

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

Jack and the Beanstalk

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

The 3 Little Pigs

Little Red Hen

Dinosaur Roar – H and P Stickland

Tyrannosaurus Drip - Julia Donaldson

Pizza for Pirates – A & C Giillian

The Night of the Pirates – Peter Harris

A New Home for a Pirate – Ronda Armitage

The Way Back Home – Olive Jeffers

Traction Man – Mini Grey

Supertato – P Linnet S Hendra

Superworm - Julia Donaldson

The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle

Useful websites for EYFS children:

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm 

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/eyfs/ 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories 

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/ 

http://www.funwithspot.com

www.sebastianswan.org.uk 

http://www.ictgames.com/ 

http://www.ictgames.com/looCoverWriteCheck/LCWC_demo/index.html 

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html 

www.boowakwala.com    

www.poissonrouge.com 

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/ 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml 

www.abc.net.au/children/play 

www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-little-kids.htm 

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/index.shtml 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/