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
Christmas Performance song lyric
This week in Forest Class
Week Commencing 17th March
This week, some very exciting visitors have arrived! Incubated eggs from the Living Eggs Programme have been set-up and all the children have had the opportunity to see some chicks hatching from the eggs.
In our topic lessons, the children have been learning about farms; we discovered the ploughs used to be pulled by horses and that tractors were much smaller than they are now. Also, we got to look at some aerial photographs of farms and got to mix colours together and paint our own versions of those aerial photographs.
In maths, we have started recapping and embedding previously learned topics. Our focus has been finding one less, learning double facts and spotting odd and even. To help with spotting odd and even we have been using Numicon, counters and tens frames.
In PE, we have continued with our topic of ‘Movement to Music’. In our Monday lesson, we sang nursery rhymes and created actions to those songs. We then were put into groups and performed to each other.
We spent our woodland wonder finding a place for and creating a mud kitchen. We thought about what a kitchen would need and played with all the tools in our mud kitchen together.
This week's Talking Task
Next week, we will be reading Handa’s Surprise. We will be exploring different fruits and thinking about which foods are healthy.
Think about the following question at home so we can discuss your thoughts in class:
What is your favourite fruit?
What does that fruit look like?
How does that fruit grow?
Where does that fruit come from?
To enable children to develop their language skills, we have used AI to translate this into other languages spoken in our school community.
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
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. |