Welcome to our class page!
This week the Reception team (Mrs Pett, Miss Palmer and Miss Reed) have been getting to know all our lovely new children and introducing them to our school. We have explored our classroom, outdoor learning area and even visited the rest of the classrooms!
Below are some photos of their first few sessions with us:
We believe that education is a life-long process. A child’s education does not cease when they leave our school premises; learning at home is an essential part of good education.
Home Learning is any work or activity completed outside lesson time, either alone, with parents, or others. Home Learning makes an important contribution to progress at school. It is used to enhance and support the pupils’ learning within school and also to prepare them for secondary school.
From the Early Years simple games, learning sounds, counting and of course, reading with parents, provides valuable opportunities for the practice of key skills in a supportive environment. As children get older they need to develop the habit of regularly devoting short periods of time to personal study. All children are expected to take part in a variety of Home Learning tasks to enhance and support their work in class.
Over the course of the year children will be asked to complete one piece of homework a term from our home learning menu. Which can be added to seesaw our home/school communication app that will be accessable through a QR code in their monkey books.
We are so excited to see which piece of work you choose to do each term!!
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Year Group |
Reading |
Number |
Maths |
English |
Choice |
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Elm Class |
Daily sound practice |
Daily Numbots |
N/A |
N/A |
One activity chosen from the class menu per half term. |
Autumn 1
Our topic this half term is "Marvelous Me". During this term we will be focusing on what makes us unique. We will be reading stories to help us understand our emotions, explore our senses and identifying parts of our bodies.
Below is our curriculum overview which details which topics we will be focussing on in class including a wide variety of learning and development for your children in Reception.
Maths Investigation day
This week across the school we had a fantastic maths inspired dress up day! The children wore wonderful number related costumes and we carried out maths investiagtions all day. We counted how many skittles we knocked down, how many bean bags we could throw into a hoop, how long we could walk while balancing a beanbag on our heads and so much more.
Maths week
This week we took part in the crystal maze adventures. We visited the Farm where we had to make sure the farmer had all the right animals, we went to the beach where we made our own buckets, we visited the toy shop where we had to make our own toys and we visited the supermarket and had to count our money to buy our food.
We all worked in teams working on our communication, sharing and listening skills to acomplish our tasks.
People who help us
This week we are extreemly lucky to have some visitors into school to share their jobs with Elm class! On Tuesday we had the dentists come in and talk to us about what foods are healthy for our teeth and how to look after them.
On Thursday the Fire service arrived! We discussed which things were hot and what todo in an emergency then we looked around the fire engine and saw all the tools they use to help people in an emergency.
Paul Sturgess
Today we had the pleasure of meeting Paul Sturgess, Britains Tallest man at 7'7!
We enjoyed seeing how we could dribble the basket balls with one and two hands while we had a cone on our heads!! The children enjoyed their session greatly and are all keen to play some basketball soon!!