Year Groups: Reception
Medium Term Plan Summer Term 6 | 0SM Timetable | 0D Timetable | 0BM Timetable | SEND | Thrive
A very warm welcome to Reception
Our Class Christian Values are: Service (0BM), Thankfulness (0D) and Compassion (0SM)
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Home learning previous phonics lessons and sound charts.
Reception teachers 2021/22
0D – Mr Dismore
0SM – Mrs Schwartz & Mrs Markall
0BM – Mrs Bevan & Mrs Markall
Other Key Adults in Reception
Mrs Jones
Miss Pease
Miss Payne
Miss Ward
Weekly Update – week ending 1st July
We started the week with a very interesting assembly on hygiene and how to prevent germs from spreading. The children enjoyed being scientists, wearing lab coats and goggles, taking part in different experiments. They particularly liked seeing how far microbes can travel when they brought out the ‘sneeze machine’ (a bubble machine!)
In the classrooms and outdoor environments, we have been continuing our Animal Safari topic, with particular focus on habitats and climates. The children enjoyed recreating a hot dry desert habitat and a hot wet rainforest habitat. In literacy, the children wrote their own animal riddles. Here a few, can you guess the animal?
- I eat meat. I am black and white. I live in the snow. What am I?
- I walk very slow. I have a scaly shell. I can live for 100 years. What am I?
- I am nocturnal. I have a bushy tail with a white bit. I am orange. What am I?
In maths we have been thinking about numerical pattern, particularly odd and even numbers. The children enjoyed drawing a picture of Odd Bod the alien who loves odd numbers only.
Many thanks to everyone who came to support the children on Sports Day. It was a huge success and we were very impressed with the children’s efforts and behaviour.
We hope you have a great weekend.
The Reception Team
Weekly Update – week ending 24th June
We have continued to enjoy the warm weather and the children are eager to learn outside. They have enjoyed playing with the water swamp which was created in a tuff tray while the water tray was transformed into a polar region with the addition of ice (complete with the relevant animals). We’ve talked a lot about habitats, predators and camouflage and enjoyed our own safari around the school grounds where, instead of lions and tigers, we found plenty of insects, butterflies, slugs and even a couple of baby toads. We talked about where these animals prefer to live.
In our writing we have been learning facts about different animals – did you know every zebra has a unique stripe pattern. In maths we looked at sharing and grouping using practical resources – if you have 12 flowers and put three flowers in each pot – how many pots do you need?
In PHSE we talked about how we change from a baby and discussed what we would like to do when we are grown-ups.
In PE we have been practising for our sports day, we have our fingers crossed that the weather will be good for our sports morning on Tuesday.
We hope you have a great weekend.
The Reception Team
Weekly Update – week ending 17th June
Weekly Update – week ending 10th June
What a fantastic trip to Longleat! The children were so excited to be travelling on a coach all the way there, chatting and singing with their friends. We enjoyed the warm weather and ensured we fitted as much as possible into the day. We managed boat trips and train rides. We fed the sea lions by throwing fish to them – making sure we kept our hands and fingers safe inside the boat. We saw many animals and birds and admired all the different colours and patterns. We even fed the lorikeets a special nectar – they balanced on the arms of an adult while feeding. We loved the cute meerkats and stood very still when they ran around our feet. The koalas were so fluffy, and we braved seeing the crocodiles (it was a little scary). We all enjoyed our picnic sitting on the grass.
When we returned to the coach we had a brief stop to see the giraffes and zebras – we laughed at the giraffe that was bending over to eat the grass. We also enjoyed walking through the lemur enclosure. Back on the coach, we were excited to see the larger animals, such as the lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves, and hyenas.
On the journey home the children said:
‘I loved being in the coach looking at the meat-eating animals.’
‘I think it was amazing and I didn’t want to leave.’
‘I liked seeing the lions.’
‘It was great and I wanted to stay there forever.’
‘I really can’t say what was the best because I loved everything!’
We had such a fantastic day and, for their very first school trip, we thought the children were a credit to the school. We were very proud of them.
Weekly Update – week ending 27th May
This week the children have thoroughly enjoyed all the jubilee celebrations in school. We used a range of materials to design crowns and ball gowns and made bunting. We also created our own portraits of the Queen inspired by the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
The children were so pleased to have their parents and carers visit the classroom to share their work. The children worked very hard on their poems, imagining what life would be like as a monarch. The jubilee picnic was a huge success and we are grateful for all your support.
In maths, we explored subtraction. We listened to ‘first, next, then’ stories and showed our understanding on ten frames. We then attempted to record these calculations as number sentences.
Next term we will be starting our new topic ‘Animal Safari’. We will be learning about different animals and their habitats and writing our own versions of the story ‘Dear Zoo’. We are all very excited to be visiting Longleat on Friday 10th June to see some real animals up close!
The EYFS team hope that you have wonderful half term.
The Reception Team
Literature Week
The children had a great week looking at lots of different types of literature this week. Reading, ‘Rosie’s Walk’ and creating maps and vegetable print paintings of Rosie. We had a visit from an author! ‘Robert Starling’ which inspired the children to create some fantastic story covers of their very own. A few examples are in the pictures below.
Home Learning
If your child is isolating at home, and is well enough, we would like them to access home learning that mirrors what is happening in school. By following the link you should find a folder for each day’s work. Once your child has completed the work they can email it to their teacher using the class email address (e.g. class0sm@wasp-school.org.uk) or by sending in paper copies to the school.
P.E Days
All children will be doing P.E on a Monday and Wednesday so please can they come into school in P.E kit on these days. Thank you.
Additional Information
The P.E bags, book bags and pencil grips are now on sale through Parent Pay. Once purchased, the school office will let the teacher know who has bought what and they will give to your child at home time.
Book Bags – £5.00
P.E Bags – £3.50
Pencil Grips – £2.00
SHARING YOUR CHILD’S ACHIEVEMENTS FROM HOME
STAR MOMENT
We are launching our Star Moment initiative. Please read the attached letter for further information. Thank you for sending your Star Moment sheets in.
Star moment letter
Thank you
Some useful information about our learning (click on the links below):
Number Bonds | Number Formation
Letter Formation
Correct Pencil Grip – Right Hand