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Southborough Church of England Primary School

Southborough Church of England Primary School

Forest

Reception Curriculum 2024-2025

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

Reception Class Teachers

Reception Teaching Team

A typical day in the life of a Reception child:

 

A typical day (but not always!) 

 

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. 

 

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. 

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