Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Forest
Reception Curriculum 2024-2025
Knowledge Organiser
February Maths Workshop
January Phonics Workshop
October Phonics Workshop
This week in Forest Class
Week commencing 9th June 2025
We have had a lot of fun this week, learning about the story Dear Zoo, and thinking about the kinds of animals we would like to have. We have written letters to the zoo to ask for a pet and are looking forward to seeing what replies we get.
To build on our knowledge of important stories from different faiths, this week we learned about the Islamic Story of the Crying Camel, and how it helps Muslims learn that animals are just as important as humans and need to be cared for. Can you ask your child to tell you this, or any of the other stories from the Bible, Torah or Qu’ran they have learned?
In maths we have continued to explore grouping and sharing objects. We had a lot of fun reading the story of The Squirrels Who Squabbled, and recreated the story using our classroom toys, but unlike the greedy squirrel in the story, we shared our items equally! With your child, can they try dividing books or toys into equal groups – how many groups can you make? How many are in each group?
Building on our knowledge of different musical instruments from last week, the children have learned about the orchestra, and where different musicians are positioned. Can your child try building a percussion instrument at home and see how many ways they can find to make music?
We had a great time preparing for our Sports Morning on 12th June this week with extra practise of the events and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. We will make sure there are lots of photos of the event on the website for you to see.
Please continue to use Boom Reader and Numbots to support your child’s maths and phonics learning. If you have any problems logging in to either, please let your child’s class teacher know.
This week's Talking Task
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about pets, initially using the story Dear Zoo. Do you have a pet at home? Maybe you could encourage your child to bring in a photograph or drawing of your pet? Could you do some research with your child about what their dream pet would be or what pet they might have if you lived in a different habitat or climate? Don’t forget to send any pet or animal related activity into school so your child can share their learning with others.
To enable children to develop their language skills, we have used AI to translate this into other languages spoken in our school community.
This week's Talking Task
Numbots
To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.
This week in Forest Class
Sports Day 2025
Reception Class Teachers
Reception Teaching Team
A typical day in the life of a Reception child:
| A typical day (but not always!) |
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8.20/8.30 | Adventure Time | Infant gate opens from 8.20am until 8.30am. Parents bring children to classroom back doors. Teachers greet children, children encouraged to put their belongings away, self-register and then join in the self-selected activities. Teaching Assistant supporting children to become more independent as our aim is for children to be able to “think and do for themselves”. |
8.35am | Welcome Collective worship | Children gather on the carpet, the teacher will explain the visual timetable (and will continue to do this across the day) to prepare the children for what is next or any changes. Daily Collective worship to reflect being a Church of England School. |
8.50am | Plan & Adventure Time
| Continuous and enhanced provision in all Areas of Learning accessed both in the indoor and outdoor classrooms. Staff encourage children to develop the characteristics of effective learning as they engage with an extensive range of activities and opportunities. Staff are trained to carry out high quality interactions with the children to develop their skills further. |
9.30am | Review and snack | Fruit supplied by the school. |
9.45am | Phonics | Short (Read Write Inc) Phonics adult led session to learn to recognise and write sounds, then sound out and blend them to read words and decode words to spell. In addition to discrete phonics teaching, children are encouraged to use recognise and use their phonics skills across the curriculum. |
10am | Adventure Time
| As above |
11.00am | Review and Maths: Teacher Directed
| Children discuss their activities in Adventure Time. Maths- short teacher led session |
11.30am | Lunch | TAs support children with their lunch in the hall.
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12.00pm | Outdoor Play | TAs support outdoor play. |
12.20 | TA story | TAs bring children in from play and read a story to the class. |
12.30pm | Teacher directed | Additional short teacher-led sessions take place which include maths, circle time, literacy, music, R.E., P.E. and Corner Stones based topic lessons. These short inputs feed into the child-initiated learning enabling children to use the resources to further |
12.45pm | Adventure Time
| Children who have been assessed as needing additional support with Language, speech, and other identified areas, will be supported in short, frequent, small group boosters. |
2.15pm | Phonics Review / Review of the day Milk | Recap of Phonics learning / and other learning during the day. Some children have milk (free until 5th birthday) |
2:30pm | Magic Maths | Short teacher led session |
2.45pm | Story Time Home preparation | Final story of the day.
Children gather their belongings and await the arrival of their parent. The outdoor area is closed to all at this time. |
3pm | Parents Arrive | The infant gate is opened at 3pm. Strict protocols followed with collection lists. Any queries should be radioed to the office for clarification, or a member of SLT called. Parents encouraged to only have brief handover conversation, and to call the office for telephone call appt for longer conversations. |