Reception/Year 1
Welcome to Terms 1 and 2!
Welcome! During Terms 1 and 2, we learn all about ourselves, our homes and our families. We learn about the different communities that we are part of- school and Pewsey. The Year 1 children go on to learn about the United Kingdom.
As the term goes on, our learning is very much related to our needs and interests. This means that the learning can be different each year! The topics and themes are tailored to our class and the individuals within it.
We will be reading LOTS of books but below are some of the main texts that we will read.
Click here for information about our phonics programme. The page will be updated regularly so please keep checking back.
You will find newsletters which tell you all about your child's learning in Phonics/ Spelling on that page too.
We now teach Phonics across FS2 to Year 4 and children attend the Phase and Group that they need.
Your child's teacher will tell you which Phase and Group you need to look at.
Year 1 Homework is given out on a Friday and should come back on a Wednesday. Click here for the homework grid for this term.
Reception Home Learning Journals
A few weeks into term, Reception children will bring home a Home Learning Journal. They can do anything they like in this book. They might like to draw or write something. They might like to stick in photos of a day out or of something that they have achieved at a club out of school. We will check these on a Wednesday when we check Year 1 Homework books. They will then come back out on a Friday. We love finding out about your child and what they do out of school!
Don't forget:
PE is on a Thursday each week and we will have Physical Development activities throughout the week.
Useful Links:
Our Class Showcase
We peeled and chopped pumpkin, took the seeds out and roasted it in the oven. The seeds felt slimy!
We picked apples in our school orchard. There were also lots of pears and a few blackberries.
We made apple cakes with the fruit from the school orchard
A Curious Place.........Our Learning Environment
Our Reception and Year 1 learning environments have natural colour pallettes which makes for calmer places to learn.
We have thought very carefully about every resource that we have included in the environment and that we have put on the walls. There is a purpose to everything and these have been explained to the children.
We have tried to rid the environment of as much plastic as we can. We have replaced toys and pretend items with real ones. The theory behind this is two fold:
- the children are far more curious about objects if they are not clear about the purpose and if they can use the object for a variety of things. This makes play and learning more open-ended.
- the children learn to look after things much more carefully if they are fragile, delicate and/ or special. For example, they are taught how to look after china cups rather than using plastic tea-sets.
Choosing Learning
In Reception/ Year 1, the children take part in Choosing Learning. They have the opportunity to choose what they would like to do and how they would like to learn. The adults in the class help the children to find out new things and to challenge themselves.
Year 1 children in the class will start Key Tasks before Christmas although Reception children will do this from January. The children will have a number of tasks that they have to do during the week when it is Choosing Learning time, before they can choose freely.
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