Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Mountain
Reception Curriculum 2024-2025
Knowledge Organiser
February Maths Workshop
January Phonics Workshop
October Phonics Workshops
This week in Mountain Class
Week commencing 16th June 2025
We have had a wonderful week continuing our animal-based learning this term. The children have had so much fun playing in the ‘vets’ which has been set up in our outside classroom. The children have also continued to write letters asking for their dream pet using their ever-growing phonics skills.
The children learned about pictograms and used them to work out which is the most common pet in Reception. We discovered that a lot of people don’t have a pet but that the most common pet is a dog. Three children have pet snakes, two have pet lizards and one has pet spiders. Can you and your child create a pictogram at home and find out which is the most popular pet among your wider family?
This week, the children were introduced to the Hindu faith in our R.E. lessons and they learned that Hindu people believe in one supreme God, Brahman, and that he can take many forms as different gods and goddesses. They also learned that Hindu people might have a shrine at home and they can also visit a temple. We learned that the temples are full of different sights, smells, tastes and sounds, as it is important to use all the different senses as a part of worship. What senses does your child know? Which sense are they using at a mealtime? On a trip to the park? In the bath?
In maths, we have revised patterns and continued to embed our knowledge of number bonds to 5. The children had a lot of fun creating a Magic 5 potion, and they found a magic recipe to make it. We were only able to put ingredients into a pot that totals 5 e.g. four green frogs and one yellow one. Together with your child, can you make a number bond mixture or write a recipe?
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
Next week we will be looking at mini beasts and their different habitats. Can you find any mini beasts in your garden or on your way to school? Can you research your favourite mini beast and bring in some drawings or facts about it? We look forward to sharing your learning with the rest of the class.
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 in Mountain Class
Sports Day 2025
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!) |
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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. |