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Southborough Church of England Primary School

Southborough Church of England Primary School

Mountain

Reception Curriculum 2024-2025

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This week in Mountain Class

Week Commencing 3rd February

 

In the classroom, we have been celebrating Lunar New Year. The children have explored this celebration by making decorations, dragon dancing and visiting a restaurant and using chopsticks.

 

In maths, we have been building 9 and 10. We have been representing these numbers using counting objects, numicon and through stories.  We have also been practising our digit formation, particularly focusing on the digits 8 and 9. Maybe you could have a go at this at home?

 

 In PE, we have been developing our travelling moves. We explored crawling, sliding, hopping and skipping; we then used these skills to make it across the room in interesting ways. 

 

 In our R.E., we are continuing to learn about special Bible stories; this week have been looking at miracles finding out how Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. The children described miracles as “it’s brilliant”, “something you don’t expect” and “it’s kind of a bit like magic but God did it”.

This week's Talking Task

 

Next week, we will be recapping all of the exciting things we have learned this term. In light of this, can you go for a dark time walk with your child and look and listen for signs of nocturnal animals?  Together, could you also discover more about a diurnal or nocturnal animal they are interested in for them to share with their class at school? 

 

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.

Reception Class Teachers

Reception Teaching Team

A day in the life of a child in Reception

 

 

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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