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 30th June
We have had a wonderful week in Reception and have made the most of our shaded area and opportunities for water play.
We have been investigating animals that lay eggs, and the differences between mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians this week. The children have been fascinated by new animals, such as Comodo Dragons, Salamanders and Birds of Paradise. They have created detailed artwork, used their sorting and classifying skills and applied their sounds to write about the different animals we’ve learned about. What’s the most unusual animal you can think of – can you and your child research it and learn more about it?
A real highlight of this week and the end of last week was meeting the staff who will be working with the children next year in Year 1. We have learned interesting facts about the Year 1 team and had a chance to play with them in the Outside Classroom during Adventure Time. The children are very excited about gaining even more friends and learning new things next year. What is your child most looking forward to about year 1? What was their favourite new fact about the staff team?
Our Moving Up Morning is later in the week, so you will be able to find out all about the fun activities the children took part in. We will continue to support the children into their transition to Year 1 over the coming weeks.
We are continuing to explore visualisation, mapping and building, in our maths lessons, this week and have used the positional language that we learned last week to create maps and buildings inspired by a range of stories we have studied. Can you challenge your child to make a map of their bedroom, or create a treasure hunt with a map to follow?
As the weather continues to be hot, please make sure your child comes to school wearing sun scream 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 that need to be returned.
This week's Talking Task
Next week we will be learning about money and the children will identify and use British coins and notes. Do you have any cash or notes you can show your child? Can they help you with the shopping? Have you got any currency from a different country they can look at? We’d love to see children’s drawings of any coins or notes they have looked at.
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!) |
|
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. |