Hedgehogs (Reception)
Welcome to Reception -
Hedgehogs Class
Teacher: Miss Harlin
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Costine
Welcome to Reception. In our Early Years class, children are encouraged and supported to become independent and curious learners. We provide lots of opportunities for active learning within the classroom and our outdoor provision. Children are encouraged to think critically, be creative learners and explore their surroundings.
The children have access to a range of areas of learning including:
Three Prime areas of learning:
- Personal, Social & Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Communication & Language
Four Specific areas of learning:
- Literacy
- Maths
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts & Design
Summer Term 1
This term our focus will be 'Sunshine and Sunflowers'. We will be finding out about how plants grow and how to care for the plants and animals in our local environment. There will be some very special arrivals in our classroom for us to observe changing and growing, allowing us to make links to some lovely texts. We will be continuing with 'Helicopter stories', encouraging story telling, acting and developing confidence in speaking.
Running alongside this topic, will be our theme of 'Shadows and reflections', allowing us to think how shadows are formed and how they can change.
Both these topics will make links for us to explore scientific themes and lots of opportunities for music, singing, dancing and creativity. As always, we will be following the children's interests as they arise, especially linked to the animals, characters and settings we meet in the texts we will be sharing. Children's independence and confidence will continue to be encouraged through our daily routines and activities.
In maths, we will be continuing our mastering number programme, developing those important foundations in understanding early mathematical principles. Throughout our time in continuous and enhanced provision, we will be exploring shape, space and measure.
Our phonics will continue with level 4, which consolidates and puts the level 3 phonemes into children's application of reading and writing . The children's skills in segmenting and blending will continue to be developed as we learn to read and write more independently. Tricky words will continue to come home in the children's yellow books, please look at these with your child as often as you can.
Forest school will continue to be on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure that children are wearing suitable clothing to make sure that they are warm whilst we are outside. As the weather begins to change over this term, please think about providing sun hats and sun cream.
On this note, could you please ensure that children are bringing a coat to school each day, even when it looks sunny in the morning the children are outside lots in the day and can become chilly when it is cloudy or rainy.
If book bags and water bottles could continue to be in school every day please.