Category: Reception Blog

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We would like you to continue with the phonics scheme this week.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should carry on with the Reception learning for the week beginning 15th June.

Miss Jones’ and Mrs Johnson’s groups should continue with the Reception tab from the 11th May.
Mrs Towner’s group should follow the Year 1 tab for the 15th June.

We have attached the Oxford reading link below also to continue reading as much as possible.

This weeks maths is based on the story ‘ The Dinosaur that pooped a planet’. It has some lovely activities including; using shapes to make a rocket, using junk modelling to make your own rocket and discussing 3D shapes and enforces pattern and number. We have attached the link for the story on Youtube below and some songs to help practice skills such as counting in 5’s.

This week’s wider curriculum focuses on sports as our children will be missing out on sports day at school. We feel it would be a nice opportunity to introduce some games and races in the garden or the park and also introduce children to the Olympics. We have attached some power points and some activity ideas as well as some sports day certificates.

We have attached the Oak National Academy link below for any further lessons you may wish to access.

Have a great week everyone! 🙂

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We would like you to continue with the phonics scheme this week.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should carry on with the Reception learning for the week beginning 8th June.

Miss Jones’ and Mrs Johnson’s groups should continue with the Reception tab from the 4th May.

Mrs Towner’s group should follow the Year 1 tab for the 8th June.

We have attached the Oxford reading link below also to continue reading as much as possible.

This week’s maths is ‘Oliver’s vegetables’. This is a lovely book and focuses on quantities and more and less. It also lends itself well to recapping healthy eating and planting your own vegetables! We have attached the link for the story on Youtube below and some songs to help practice skills such as counting in 2’s.

This week’s wider curriculum focuses on Summer. Hopefully we will experience some hot weather again soon and need to ensure we are enjoying it safely. We would like you to look at the changes from spring to summer and also how to stay safe. We have attached a few different power points and activities below.

We have attached the Oak National Academy link below for any further lessons you may wish to access.

Keep up all your hard work and have a great week 🙂

Week beginning 22nd June

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We would like you to continue with the phonics scheme this week.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should carry on with the Reception learning for the week beginning 1st June.

Miss Jones’ and Mrs Johnson’s groups should move onto the reception tab now starting with the first lesson (27th April).

Mrs Towner’s group should follow the Year 1 tab for the 1st June.

We have attached the Oxford reading link below also to continue reading as much as possible.

This week’s book for Maths is Zog. This is a fantastic story and we hope you enjoy the activities on adding, subtracting, pattern and size. We have attached the link for the story on Youtube below and some songs to help practice skills such as doubling.

Linking to this week’s theme of Zog we have uploaded some wider curricular activities below for you to enjoy.

We understand how challenging it can be to home school whilst still working yourselves and appreciate all your efforts. Below is a link to the Oak National academy website with some more online lessons taught by a teacher that may be useful.

Keep up all your hard work and keep sending us your photos! 🙂

Hello Reception. Some fantastic work produced this week- well done everyone!

We would like you to continue with the phonics scheme this week.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should carry on with the Reception learning for the week beginning 25th May.

Miss Jones’ and Mrs Johnson’s groups should follow the learning to blend tab for the 25th May.

Mrs Towner’s group should follow the Year 1 tab for the 25th May.

For those who want an extra phase 5 activity have a go at the workbook below in your journals.

We urge you to continue reading with your child and have included the Oxford reading link below. Reading just 10 minutes each day really will help your child progress and is extremely valuable!

This week’s book for maths is ‘Princess mirror Belle’ . There are some lovely activities all about 3D shapes and sorting. We have added the link for the story on youtube too.

For our wider curriculum this week we would like you to look at recycling. Lot’s of you are out and about and may have noticed busy areas getting a bit messy! This would be a good opportunity to do some litter picking and talk about how we look after our environment. We have attached ‘The messy Magpie’ story on Youtube and also included some recycling activities to have a look at.

Keep up all the hard work and please continue to send us your photos via email. Have a good week- The Reception team.

Please refer to Mrs Ellis’ latest letter about return arrangements to school from Monday 15th June. All parents were previously asked to request a place for their child if they wished them to return to school. Miss Plimmer will have phoned all of the parents for the children that were allocated a space. If you did not request a place and have not received a phone call from Miss Plimmer then your child should not attend school next week. Staff have been working incredibly hard to place children in bubbles and these bubbles can not be amended or added to as they rely on staffing and having an allocated room in the school. This will be reviewed in two weeks time where any increase in numbers can be catered for according to Government guidelines. Please send any requests by email to the school office. It is parents responsibility to read all emails from school to keep updated with all of the changes taking place.

The children in school will be doing the same learning as the children at home. This work will be added to the website each Monday. If you have any concerns about the work then Miss Plimmer will be available on TEAMs each day from 10.00-12.00 for all three classes. As class teachers will be in school every day there will be less oportunity to communicate by email but we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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Hello Reception

Welcome to another week of home learning. Thank you to all those children that have been emailing us with photos, we love to see your work and are very impressed with how hard you are all working. There are a lot of children we still haven’t heard from. Please drop us a message so we can keep in touch. For those that requested a place for their child to come back in to school this term, Mrs Ellis will let you know details this week about an opening date and then you should receive a phone call to let you know details of arrival and departure times and where to drop off and pick up. Currently we are waiting for confirmation from the Local Education Authority and once that has been given to the school Mrs Ellis will be able to update you further. If you no longer need this place then please contact the school to let them know as we are having to group the children in bubbles so need to know how many will be in each one.

This week we would like you to continue on with your Phonic sessions.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should carry on with the Reception learning for the week beginning 18th May to the 22nd May where they will review the sounds already covered.

Miss Jones’ and Mrs Johnson’s groups should follow the learning to blend tab for the 18th – 22nd May

Mrs Towner’s group should follow the Year 1 tab for the 18th – 22nd May

For any of Mrs Towner’s or Miss Warsop’s groups that would like an extra challenge then please have a go with this tricky words booklet. If you can’t print off the booklet then please just try to write the answers where you can in your journal.

This weeks book for Maths is ‘The Princess and the Wizard’. There are some lovely activities that look at pattern, symmetry and doubles. Remember to practise the ‘Doubles rap’ we have added the link to the song on YouTube so that you can become an expert on your doubles. If you like number songs then look for ‘Jack Hartman’ on youtube and he does a wide range of number songs. Go back over your numbers to 100 and your number bonds to 5, 10 and 20.

As we are looking at the ‘Princess and the Wizard’ this week we though we would do some work on traditional tales for our curriculum work. Have a go at these activities.

This would be a good opportunity to read some traditional tales as we would have read different ones every day if we had been in school. There are some traditional tales on the Oxford Owl website so why not have a look at those when you go on to do your reading. Please don’t forget to read. Reading for 10 minutes each day will be the best tool in helping your child to minimise any loss of learning while they have been away from school. We can’t stress enough how this is the most important thing that you as parents can do.

We hope you have a wonderful week and fingers crossed the sun starts to shine again. Keep up all the good work and we look forward to seeing your lovely photos.

The Reception Team

Week beginning 1st June

We hope you all had a good half term and enjoyed the sunshine! 🙂

This week we would like you to continue with the Phonics, Maths and Curriculum work as you have done over the last few weeks.

 Miss Jones and Mrs Johnson’s groups please follow ‘Learning to Blend’ – Week commencing 11th May.

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s Phonics Groups follow the Reception tab –Week commencing 11th May.

Mrs Towner’s phonics group follow the Year 1– Week commencing 11th May.

Phase 5 extra challenge activities.

Maths this week will be a range of activities following the story ‘Snail and the whale’. We have included a link to the story if you haven’t got the book at home.

This week we would like you to look at what makes you unique. The power point offers good discussion points and some nice activities. You may wish to do some art work or sentence writing about what makes you unique. We would love to see photos!

We would also like to wish a happy birthday to the following children turning 5 in June: Thomas L, Poppy G, Lara, Violet, Freddie, Elodie, Tilly-Blue and Sofia- Rose.

Well done everybody you have made it to half term (extra special well done parents!). Please make sure you have a lovely break over the week. We have been very impressed with all of the pictures of work that we are being sent by email each week. It is lovely to see how you are engaging with the work set and to know you are working hard even when you are not at school. This week we have seen some fantastic mini-beast work, we hope you enjoyed it. Her are some photos of some of this weeks lovely work:

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There is no expectation to do any work over the half term break. We would love you to keep reading though so if you can then please remember to visit the Oxford Owl website to read a range of online ebooks. Remember parents you can also read books to your child from this website too, just click the tab for ‘see all ebooks’ and you should be able to see a wide range of books from a variety of levels.

Staff are currently working hard to devise a plan for June 1st for the possible reopening of school to some children. Mrs Ellis will continue to keep you informed over email so please make sure you are reading the emails sent from school as these will have all of the relevant information in them and may also require a response from you.

Please find below a lovely little video that helps to prepare children for not being able to hug others. It will be difficult for young children to understand that they can’t meet and play with others in the same way that they did before but hopefully this will help to start those discussions so that children are prepared for when the time comes and we can see others again.

Have a lovely half term, we hope the sun shines and we all manage to have a safe relaxing time. Please try to ensure you and your family adhere to the social distancing rules as some children may be back in school after the break and we need to ensure all families safety

The Reception Team