Welcome
The children have settled in so well over the last few weeks and we look forward to a great year ahead in partnership with you all.
Please find our curriculum information for this half term, along with ways you can support at home.
Maths
We follow White Rose Maths for Nursey and Reception and NCTEM Mastering Number for Reception.
Nursery Children
- Comparison - More than, fewer than, the same.
- Shape Space and Measure - Explore and build with shapes and objects
- Pattern - Exploring repeated patterns
Reception Children
- Matching objects/pictures and identifying a set.
- Sorting objects by type, creating rules.
- Comparing amounts.
- Comparing size, mass and capacity.
- Exploring patterns.
Literacy
Nursery and Reception are taught together for Literacy
- Retelling and innovating “The Little Red Hen” our key text for Talk for Writing
- Using the story “Leaf Man” linked to our work on Seasons.
- Reciting and making our own Autumn poems.
Phonics
We follow the phonics scheme FFT Success for all for both Nursery and Reception children
Nursery Children
The First Steps to Phonics programme is designed to gradually introduce children to phonics by first embedding phonological awareness before moving on to teaching Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences (GPCs).
The entire Autumn term is spent teaching all seven aspects of Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds:
- General Sound Discrimination (Environmental, Instrumental and Body Percussion)
- Rhythm and Rhyme
- Alliteration
- Voice Sounds
- Oral Blending and Segmenting
This half term the Nursery children will learn the following rhymes in Phonics as part of the seven aspects listed above:
Twinkle Twinkle, Wheels on the bus, Peter Piper, Little Miss Muffet, Bingo, Baa Baa Black Sheep
Reception Children
Reception children will learn the Phase 2 graphemes - s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r and how to form those letters correctly. They will bring a reading book home week beginning 6th October. Phonics assessment 1 is the week beginning 20th October where children will be assessed on the sounds we have learnt, blending and segmenting and reading words made up from those sounds eg in cat. You will be sent a copy of your child’s completed phonics assessment and have the opportunity to discuss it at parents evening. Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school every day.
Knowledge and understanding of the world
- The seasons
- All about me - body parts, growing up, senses
Expressive arts and design
- Mark making with wax crayons, felt tips an chalk.
- Observational pencil drawings and drawing faces.
- Divali crafts
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- Harvest
- I am special
- Divali
Outdoor Learning
The children will have access to our outdoor learning environment everyday and in all weathers! Please make sure they bring a coat to school everyday and have a pair of wellingtons that stay at school.
The children will be developing language and communication as well as learning to work as a team, taking turns and negotiating plans using the outdoor resources. We will be using not only our outdoor area but schools’ extensive grounds including the wilderness area
How you can support at home
Nursery and Reception Children
Sharing stories daily, practicing holding a pencil correctly, singing number songs/nursery rhymes and counting.
Websites we use are:
- BBC Schools radio EYFS Nursery Rhyme and Songs
- And on Youtube.com - Kids TV 123 Numbers
Reception Children
On the 6th October Reception child will be given their first reading book. Please record in the reading record each time your child reads at home. School policy is for your child to read at least 3 times a week at home. A Bronze certificate is given after reading 50 times at home. We will be holding phonics and guided reading open mornings for Reception children before half term when you can come into school to see and take part in the lessons with your child (more details to follow).
Thank you in advance for your support
The EYFS Team
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