2022-23 Reception Class

Welcome to the Reception Class 2022-2023 with Miss Simmons, Mrs Dray and Mrs Minshull.

The children’s first full day at Isleham Primary School is on Wednesday 7^th September 2022.

Autumn term September 2022

I hope everyone enjoyed the summer break and is looking forward to the start of their school journey at Isleham Primary School. We want to make sure that you are fully informed so please come and ask if you have any questions or queries or jot something down on Dojo. Remember your child needs to bring their reading record and reading books daily to school for us to check.

• This term our topic is ‘All about me’.

• If you would like to support our swimming lessons, woodland trips or would be interested in offering assistance with other aspects of the curriculum, please contact the school office for further information.

In PSHE we will be exploring why we are special and what makes our individual identity. We will be talking about how we mix with others and belong to different groups (family, class, school, clubs etc.) We will look at similarities and differences within the class and why these are an important part of our lives and should be celebrated. We will also consider how what we do or say can affect the needs and feelings of other people and how we and everyone else have the right to be valued and treated fairly and equally whatever their background.

This half term in our music lessons, we will begin learning to recall nursery rhymes off by heart and use resources to get know the stories of some of the nursery rhymes. We will get an understanding that music can evoke your feelings and make you want to move (dancing, marching, being animals or pop stars.)

The nursery rhymes we will be learning are ‘1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive’ ‘This Old Man’ ‘Five Little Ducks’ ‘Five little Speckled Frogs’ and ‘Pat a cake, Pat a cake.’

We will also be listening to and responding to other styles of song such as ‘Celebration’ by Kool and the Gang, ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, ’Happy Birthday’ by Stevie Wonder, ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ by Eva Cassidy and ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay.

We will also learn some of the vocabulary used in music by finding the pulse, copy-clapping the rhythm of names and exploring high sounds and low sounds (pitch) using voices and instruments.

Autumn 2- November 2022

This half term our topic is ‘Our Cool World’, we will explore festivals from all around the world including; Bonfire night, Diwali, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have lots of exciting visitors lined up for this.  

Literacy:

 Throughout our literacy learning, we will continue to build on our phonics knowledge. With a strong focus on letter formation, segmenting and blending words. We will write labels, create rhyming strings, design firework poems, and write our names and captions. Within the half term, we will explore the nativity story and re-tell it through narrative.

Maths:

 Within our Maths learning this term, we will continue on our journey with the Numberblocks characters. We will secure our counting, partitioning and combining skills. The children will have the opportunity to explore odd, even numbers whilst having exposure to doubling and halving. We will explore 3D shapes through presents under the Christmas tree.

PE

This half term in our PE lessons, we will continue to follow our scheme of work ‘Real PE’. Our focus for the six weeks will be to great dynamic balances and agility skills. We will also practise performing a static balance.

We will be working on developing our ability to form and sustain positive and satisfying relationships, particularly with members of our family and friendship groups.   

In addition, we will be thinking about how we can develop positive relationships and friendships with others from a range of different lifestyles and backgrounds. We will learn to identify special people in our lives and explore why they are so important. We will also learn about different family groupings including what we enjoy doing together and how we care for each other. As well as this, we will be thinking about friendship and what it means to be a good friend also explore why friends sometimes fall out.

Along the way, we will learn how to manage uncomfortable feelings and will begin to learn simple methods for resolving conflict, recognising forms of unkindness and empathising with others. Bullying will be explored in the context of valuing and respecting difference and diversity.

This half term in our music lessons, we will continue to learn nursery rhymes (I’m A Little Teapot, The Grand Old Duke Of York, Ring O’ Roses, Hickory Dickory Dock, The ABC Song.)

We will also complete musical activities that embed pulse, rhythm and pitch, explore our voices and use a variety of percussion instruments.

We will do this by:

•         Finding the pulse by clapping, moving and using percussion instruments.
•         Copy-clapping the rhythm of small phrases from the song or our names
•         Exploring high pitch and low pitch in the context of the songs
•         Inventing a pattern to go with a song.

Spring 1- January 2023

This half term our topic is ‘Superheroes and Villains, This topic will begin by finding out about real people who help us in our lives, before moving on to find out about fantasy heroes. As part of the topic, we will invite many real life visitors into our school to talk about all the things they do to help us. We hope to see the firefighters, police, doctors and dentists in our classroom.

Literacy:

 Throughout our literacy learning, we will continue to follow our ‘Song of Sounds journey to build on our phonics knowledge. We will practise reading back the words we have written to ensure they make sense. Use tricky words within our writing and allow information we have read in books to feed into our writing. Across the half term we will have the opportunity to create a New year’s wish. We will record labels and sentences about firefighters and their fire engines. We will use our descriptive skills to explore Goldilocks and Supertato characters. Before labelling our body parts and a healthy food plate.

Maths:

 Within our Maths learning this term, we will continue on our journey with the Numberblocks characters. We will continue to build with blocks- exploring space and patterns before creating repeating patterns. We will learn to compare amounts using the terms ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’. We will meet numberblock zero. Before using part-, part whole model methods to partition combine and subtract numbers in a range of ways. We will explore weight and capacity when robbers leave their heavy thief bags in our classroom for us to discover.

PE

This half term in our PE lessons, we will continue to follow our scheme of work ‘Real PE’. Our focus for the six weeks will be to great dynamic balances on a line and a static balance stance skills.

Spring 2- February 2023

This half term our topic is ‘Into the Woods’, this topic will begin by finding out about texts which are linked to the forest. We will explore some famous texts- Little Red Riding Hood, Foggy Foggy Forest, Stickman and The Gruffalo. We hope to visit Suzie’s Woods lots during this topic to bring our learning to life.

Literacy:

 Throughout our literacy learning, we will continue to follow our ‘Song of Sounds journey to build on our phonics knowledge. We will practise reading back the words we have written to ensure they make sense. Use tricky words within our writing and allow information we have read in books to feed into our writing. Across the half term we will have the opportunity to record sentences to recreate our own rhyming foggy forest story and Gruffalo descriptions. 

Maths:

 Within our Maths learning this term, we will continue to use cross-curricular topics to link all our learning together. We will explore time through ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ during our Little Red Riding hood theme. We will add and subtract eggs at Easter. Whilst doubling and halving with the help of ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Stickman’ characters.  

PE

This half term in our PE lessons, we will continue to follow our scheme of work ‘Real PE’. Our focus for the six weeks will be to develop co-ordination through ball skills and counter –balance with a partner.  

This half term our topic is ‘Mad about Mini- beasts, this topic will begin by finding out about texts which are linked to Mini- beasts. We will explore some famous texts- The bad tempered ladybird, Snail trail, The very busy spider and the very greedy bee.  We hope to visit Suzie’s Woods lots during this topic to bring our learning to life.

Literacy:

 Throughout our literacy learning, we will continue to follow our ‘Song of Sounds journey to secure our phonics knowledge. Where we will be reading and understanding simple sentences. Use our phonic knowledge to write words and sentence and make phonetically plausible attempts at writing more complex sentences.  

Across the half term we will have the opportunity to recreate our own ‘Hungry caterpillar’ stories, showing all the writing skills we have mastered.

Maths:

 Within our Maths learning this term, we will begin our PowerMaths journey. PowerMaths is a scheme followed by the rest of the school. We start it in the Summer term to get ourselves familiar with the pictorial representations and processes used to ensure our transition into Year One where we will use it every day is seamless.

PE

This half term in our PE lessons, we will continue to follow our scheme of work ‘Real PE’. Our focus for the six weeks will be to develop co-ordination through ball skills and counter –balance with a partner.  

In PSHE this half term, we will be learning about what our bodies need to be healthy. We will be thinking of healthy choices, a balanced diet, rest, sleep and regular exercise. The children will explore this through a variety of activities.

In music, we will be learning the song Big Bear Funk. This is a transitional topic and will focus more on terminology ready in preparation for the sessions in Year 1. We will use skills learned thus far such as   listen and appraise and learn about the interrelated dimensions of music through singing, improvising and playing classroom instruments.

Others songs we will listen to and appraise are:

I Feel Good- James Brown

Don’t Worry About a Thing – Incognito

My Promise – Earth, Wind and Fire

Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Pick up the Pieces – Average White Band

Summer 1- June 2023

This half term our topic is ‘Animal Fair, this topic will begin by finding out about some very famous texts, ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’.  We also hope to take part in a sports day and lots of Transition activities to prepare us for our time in Year One in September.  

Literacy:

 Throughout our literacy learning, we will continue to follow our ‘Song of Sounds journey to secure our phonics knowledge. Where we will be reading and understanding simple sentences. Use our phonic knowledge to write words and sentence and make phonetically plausible attempts at writing more complex sentences.  

Across the half term we will have the opportunity to recreate our own poems. And also develop story writing showing all the writing skills we have mastered over our year in Reception.

Maths:

 Within our Maths learning this term, we will practise verbally count beyond 20. Have automatic recall of number bonds to 10 and secure our double facts.