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 7th July
This week, we read the book Yucky Worms and the children were fascinated to learn more about them. We learned that worms don’t have ears, eyes or noses and that they sense the world around them through feeling vibrations. Worms are also an important part of the food chain for worms, moles, hedgehogs and birds. We also learned that they play an important role in keeping soil healthy. Can you and your child look for worms? Maybe you can spot some worm casts?
We have been learning about British coins and bank notes this week and the children have had a wonderful time role playing shops and even using our coins in class to ‘pay for’ their snack at snack time. The apples were a 10p bargain but the bananas were very expensive, costing one pound each! Can you take your child shopping with you? Can you look at the prices together, and find the £ sign?
The children took part in a music workshop with our Music Specialist, Miss Garrioch, on Wednesday afternoon and they learned about traditional Ghanian music and learned a traditional song. This complements our learning from this term about different musical instruments and the orchestra. Using a cardboard box (or drums if you have them) can your child create a percussion instrument and play a drumming rhythm?
As the weather continues to be hot, please make sure your child comes to school wearing sun cream and with a named sun hat. We can re-fill water bottles throughout the day as needed.
Please can you check to see if any of our class library books or RWInc books are at home and return them to us.
This week's Talking Task
Next week we will be celebrating all the things the children have achieved in their reception year – looking at things like how much they have grown to what they can do now, which they couldn’t before. Can you discuss with your child what they are most proud of achieving this year. What are they most looking forward to achieving in year 1? We’d love to see pictures of what you’ve discussed with your child at home.
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. |