Welcome to Reception!

There are 3 classes in Reception -

Class RH - Miss Hatton, Class RBC - Mrs Birch (Mon - Wed) and Ms Cooper (Thurs & Fri)  and Class RL - Miss Lindsay.  Mrs Daly will aslo be working in RL and RH on Fridays.

Teaching assistants who also work with us are Miss Hadfield, Miss Roczniak, Miss Poulton , Miss Zahra, Miss Rasha, Ms Toft.

Spring 2- Growing

This half term our topic is 'Growing '. We will be reading some non-fiction books to explore how seeds, beans, plants and trees grow. Our Literacy text will be Jack and The Beasntalk and lots of our learning will be based around this story. 

Communication & Language

Children will be practisiting their story telling skills during our 'Helicopter Stories' sessions. In these sessions, children will orally tell their own stories whilst their classmates act them out. The sessions encourage creativity and imagination alongside developing language skills and building children's confidence. We will be reading a range of Traditonal Tales which will develop our story telling language. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will be focussing on how emotions in our bodies can feel like differetn types of weather and understadn that feelings change just like the weather does.  Through the Zones of Regulation, we will continue to learn how to express our feelings in a safe way and begin to regulate our emotions.  

These concepts will also be delivered through circle times using our 'Think Equal' programme. 

Physical Development

The children will continue to develop their fundamental movement skills such as running, jumping, hopping, skipping and climbing during our weekly PE sessions and also during outdoor provision. They will also continue to develop their fine motor skills through daily activities such as cutting with scissors, threading beads and playing with playdough. 

Literacy

This half term we will be reading  Jack And The Beanstalk'. The children will become familiar with the story, joining in with the repetative refrains. We will be discussing the characters in the story and children will use their phonic knowledge to begin to read simple words and captions. We will be applying our Phonics knowledge to write simple speech bubbles for the characters. Towards the end of the topic we will create our own classbook by drawing pictures and writing captions to go with them. Through our Oracy sessions we will be talking about whether Jack did the right thing in the story either agreeing or disagreeing with his actions. Our Phonics groups will be the same this term and the children will be assessed towards the end of term. 

Mathematics

This half term children will: 

• describing the ' 1 more/ 1 less' relationship of numbers to 10.
• Work together to order numbers between 1-10, noticing the 5'5 and a bit' structure. 
• Say what the whole is when there are 2 equal parts for example 7 is made from 5 and 2. 
• Describe attributes of the number blocks
• Sort Numberblocks using the criteria 'odd blocks' or 'even tops'
• Investigate patterns of doubles.

Understanding the World 

Children will plant seeds, beans and plants. They willinvestigate what a plant needs to grow and will watch how it changes over time. We will make observations and notice the signs of Spring. We hope to visit Platt Fields Parks towards the end of term. 

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will have lots of opportunities to create different art work whilst in provision . They will have the opportunity to print with foods and plants. They will do observational drawings and paintings of Spring time flowers. They will have daily access to junk modelling to create their own sculptures and models. 

Things to remember...

Reading/Book bags

Reading books/sheets will be changed every Monday. The children will also be able to choose a book from their classroom as their "Reading for pleasure" book. Please take the time to read your child's reading sheet/book with them as many times as you can throughout the week. This really helps build their confidence and makes such a difference to the progress they can make. 

Please make sure the children keep their reading books/sheets in their book bags and bring their book bag to school every day. This is so teachers are able to read with your child at any given opportunity throughout the week. 

PE

This half term we will continue with our Manchester City PE sessions every Monday and our indoor PE sessions will be on a Thursday. Our indoor PE sessions will be gymnastics. 

Please make sure that children come to school in their PE kits on their PE day. 

Please also make sure that your child comes to school each day dresssed appropriately for the weather. They will need a warm and waterproof coat as we will go outside to play in all weathers!

Dates for the diary...

E-saftey morning -  Wednesday 5th March

World Book Day-  Thursday 6th March  - Children can dress up as their favourite book character or come to school wearing comfy clothes.

Stay and Plant-  TBC

Trip to Plattfields Park - TBC

 Please look out for school emails with further information!