The children have followed a text-enhanced approach. The books are chosen carefully to support learning and to help children make connections.  We also ensure they learn traditional tales and nursery rhymes. Term 1 the children read The Three Little Pigs, Farmer Duck, The Little Red Hen and The Dot.

     

Expressive Arts and Design
We will celebrate International Dot Day by reading the book ‘The Dot’, and children will be encouraged to mark-make and create their own art, beginning with a dot. We are artists. We have used paint and made concentric circles art. 

         

Children will also explore printing with everyday objects, including vegetables, and they will create self-portraits using oil pastels.

 

We are writers. We have been learning to form our letters and write sentences using our phonetic sounds.

      

We visited Noden's care home and spent time with the residents.   We drew pictures for them. 

    

We took part in our Harvest Festival; we were dingle dangle scarecrows.

     

 

We are mathematicians. 

We are learning to  know a numbers 0-5 by subitising (not needing to count). We are understanding how numbers are made of other numbers.1 and 1 and another 1 make 3. Counting by tapping and saying one number to match each object. We say the number  names in the correct order. We recognise when a number is not the number you need.; exploring and making repeating patterns; Recognising and naming 2d shapes and exploring and measuring length by direct comparison.

        

Tooth brushing - we are a part of the BIG BRUSH CLUB. 

Big Brush Club is a supervised toothbrushing scheme funded by the NHS, being delivered to early years settings across the Southwest.

Tooth decay is the most common reason for hospital admission for young children, and the sad truth is that this is largely preventable. In 2022, a shocking 60,000 school days were missed due to tooth extractions and 1 in 5 children aged 3-5 in England experienced tooth decay.

               

 We learn our phonics. The school uses Rocket Phonics as the scheme. The children then have phonics activities in continuous provision or part of a teacher led activity. 

       

Every week we attend yoga. This helps with our core strength and our wellbeing. 

      

We have PE sessions.

We are learning to develop balance whilst stationary and on the move. Developing running and stopping, changing direction and exploring different ways to travel.

Developing jumping and landing, making sure we develop hopping and landing with control. We are developing our ability to move with greater co-ordination and care.

      

 

Term 2 the children read Owl Babies, Stick Man and Little Red Riding Hood. 

   

The children were also exposed to a variety of nursery rhymes celebrating National Nursery Rhyme Week.

 

 

Term 3 the children read Handa's Surprise and Anansi the Spider. 

     

Expressive Arts and Design With our key texts, children will have a go at weaving Handa’s basket, and will draw and paint a range of fruits to go in the basket. 

Understanding the World
Past and Present; People, Culture and Communities; and
The Natural World,

This term children will explore and begin to understand the effects of changing seasons, focussing on winter. They will use their senses to observe the world around them, including key processes and changes - freezing and melting - alongside hot and cold. Children will work towards exploring and identifying ways we currently and can adapt to care for the environment. Exploring further afield, the children will discover Africa, thinking about life in different countries, people and animals/habitats, and they will contrast localities. We will be trying different foods too!

Handa's Surprise story link      Anansi The Spider Story link

Reception are writers 

 What Super STAR writers they are... 

  

Term 4 Reception class  read Jack and the Beanstalk and Mr Wolf's Pancakes 

          

Jack and The Beanstalk read aloud                     Mr Wolf's Pancakes

The children are learning to understand the effects of changing seasons; to use their senses to observe the world around them; make observations using their senses and understand the processes of germination.

Term 5

The books they will be exposed to are What ever Next and The Train Ride 

      

Term 6 

Lucy and Tom, The rainbow Fish and Sally and the Limpet are the chosen books. These will enhance our learning this term.