Reception
Spring 1
Welcome back to Reception!
We hope that you have had a lovely Christmas and are all refreshed ready for the new half term.
This half term our theme is, vehicles and we are going to be reading Mrs Armitage on Wheels, by Quientin Blake, and we will be considering; how would you travel? This question will form the basis of our learning. We will be making our own forms of transport, learning how to cross the road safely, meeting our lollypop lady and hopefully having a visit to the local garage too.
We will be enjoying a full morning each week of Forest School too! Where we are going to go on lots of adventures, using a range of materials to build and learn all about the world around us.
Don’t forget to keep checking our classroom doors for our learning over the week and visiting our class page too where all of our learning, diary dates and information will be posted.
We learnt all about building
Our First Forest Day
Spring documents
Autumn 1- Reception.
Hello everyone! A very warm welcome back after the summer holidays. I hope that you have all had a lovely rest and everyone is excited to be back to school.
My name is Miss Little and it is a pleasure to be your child’s reception teacher this year and I am very much looking forward to getting to know you all in my first year at Catchgate Primary School.
Theme
This term our topic is; “Who Would You Invite”. We will be sharing the books; “Superworm” and “The Enormous Turnip”. These texts will be the focus of our literacy discussion, carpet dialogue and exploring different characters and authors, thinking about which characters are our favourite and who we would choose to invite to school. We will also be looking closely at making our own choices, being independent and thinking about who is important to us and why. I would also love to see the children celebrating their own achievements and understanding their own talents and skills.
We have lots of exciting things happening this half term- all of which will be displayed on our notice board- don’t forget to check it weekly for key dates and finding out all about what we have been up to during the week. I am sure we will have a fantastic year!
You can also find out more information in our newsletter- click on the link to view.
Autumn 2
Welcome back to reception after a lovely well deserved half term break. I hope that you all had a lovely time and enjoyed spending time with your family and friends.
We have a busy and exciting half term ahead of us in the build up to Christmas and I am sure we will have another fantastic half term. Thank you for your continued support!
Theme
This half term we are looking at the theme, 'What is the Greatest Gift', as we prepare for Christmas and the upcoming celebrations.
Our texts this half term are Handa's Surprise and Stinky Sprouts. We will be creating and learning our own story maps based on these texts, exploring language and thinking about answering higher level questions and creating our own questions. The children are becoming fantastic at learning these story maps as many of us seen in our wonderful Harvest Festival. The children are retaining the stories so well and are beginning to build a knowledge of characters, settings and the structures of stories.
This half term we are also going to be encouraging children's creativity as we create and think about the imaginative choices that we have to make the best pieces of art and craft that we have. In addition to this we will be beginning to have many many practises for our musical Nativity!! This is a great opportunity for the children to develop their confidence and really show their performance and musical skills. It will definitely not be one to miss!
Friendship Day
Remembrance Activities
Dates for your diary!
As you will all know, Christmas is a hectic time of year, so here is a list of important dates for your diary in this half term, so that you don't miss anything. I have also attached a newsletter below that has different information on for you.
November
26.11.19 - Reception Christmas Workshop - 2:15pm
December
9.12.19- Santa visit at Beamish Museum- more information to follow
11.12.19 - Christmas Dinner Day
13.12.19 Christmas Jumper Day
16.12.19- Party day- children to come dressed in their party clothes
18.12.19 Christmas Fayre in school hall 8:40am
19.12.19- Reception Christmas performance 2:15pm
20.12.19- Last day of term.
Christmas dress up day and Sing a long around the Christmas Tree 1:15pm
Newsletter- Autumn 2
Here is a copy of our topic web and medium term plan. Here you can see all of the things we will be learning about this half term.
Miss Little
Parent Guidance Documents
Activities to do at home ...
Links for learning at home - please click to open