Category: Reception Blog

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Hello Reception, can you believe we are in week 7 of Home schooling! We would like to say a massive well done to you all and your parents for trying so hard to keep up with your school work. We know you have all probably got questions to ask about the reopening of Reception on June 1st and are quite anxious. Mrs Ellis will be in touch with you all once a plan has been formulated as you can imagine it is a big undertaking and we have lots of issues to sort through. Just know that ultimately the choice is yours.

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 Perrit and Mrs Gray have also asked us to pinpoint you in the direction of ‘Real P.E’ which is the scheme of work we were beginning to follow in school for our P.E lessons. If you would like to get involved in some fun P.E sessions then please read the attached file below.

Phonics will continue the format we used last week. We asked parents to let us know which format they preferred but only had a limited amount of responses so we are sticking with the online teaching videos as these seemed to be the favoured response.

Miss Jones and Mrs Johnson’s groups please follow ‘Learning to Blend’ 4th -8th May

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s Phonics Groups follow the Reception tab 4th – 8th May

Mrs Towner’s phonics group follow the Year 1 tab 4th -8th May

If there are any children in Mrs Towner’s Phonics group who require an extra challenge or feel they know the sounds that are been taught in the online videos then feel free to have a go at this Phase 5 activity booklet

Maths This week will be a range of activities following the story ‘Superworm’. We have included a link to the story if you haven’t got the book at home. We have seen some lovely photos of the different Maths activities and are so glad that you are enjoying them.

To link with some of the lovely Maths work you have been enjoying we are going to focus on Mini-beasts this week for our Curriculum learning. Get outside and see what mini-beasts you can find. If you go out on a daily walk have a look for as many different ones as you can. Coundon Wedge is a fantastic place to look for mini-beasts so if you haven’t been, maybe you could walk that way and go on a mini-beast hunt. We would have been going for a walk and a Brook paddle down at the wedge if we had been in school so maybe you could pop on your wellies and go and have a paddle in the shallow bit of the wedge and look for mini-beasts – make sure you do this safely though and with a grown up. We would love to see photos of your mini-beast hunt. Read the story below and have a go at the different activities.

We hope you have a wonderful week Reception. We have added another story read by one of the Reception team to microsoft teams for you to have a look at. The teachers phoned this week with your email and password details so if you would like to see the story then don’t forget to log in.

Have a wonderful week and don’t forget to keep in touch there are still a number of children that we have not heard from – class email addresses are below.

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

The Reception Team

Hello Reception, we hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and managed to enjoy the VE day celebrations in the sunshine. We must begin by apologising for not yet ringing you with your email address to enable you to access Microsoft Teams to communicate with staff about the work set. It took a little longer than expected to sort out email addresses but we will be phoning you over the next couple of days to share this with you. Once you have your email address and password you will need to follow the following link https://www.office.com/ to log in. The password you will be given will be a generic one so you are free to change this. The idea of microsoft teams is to allow children to chat to their teachers live about the work set. This is obviously better suited to the older children but is a function available if you wish to use it. We must state though it is only to chat about the work that has been set not to disscuss other issues. Please use the class email addresses for any other communication. Please do not feel you have to use TEAMs, it is just another form of communication open to you. Class teachers will be available to chat about Phonics 10-10.30 every week day and Maths 11-11.30 every weekday.

We would like to say a massive thank you for all the lovely emails this week. We love seeing all the lovely work you have been doing and also your lovely smiley faces. If you haven’t managed to email yet then please try to this week.

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This week for Phonics we would like you to try some phonic sessions that should help to move your Phonics on and teach what you would have been taught had we been in school. These online sessions are taught by Teachers and follow the letters and sounds scheme that we follow in school. Please let us know how you get on with these sessions as they are a little different to the PowerPoints the children have been doing over the last few weeks. We would love to know which format you prefer. Please note which sessions we would like your child’s Phonics group to follow ( these are identified under the link)

Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should Follow the Reception Link and should try the five lessons starting from the 27th April – 1st May. Miss Jones and Mrs Johnson’s Phonics groups should follow the ‘Learning to Blend’ link again the 27th April – 1st May. Mrs Towner’s Phonics group should follow the Year 1 link and again follow the 5 lessons from the 27th April – 1st May (If your child is struggling with this then please follow the Reception link so they can recap the sounds previously been taught). Don’t forget to warm up with the Jolly Phonics or Tricky words songs that can be found on YouTube.

For your Maths sessions this week we will be following the story ‘The Very Busy Spider’. You can find the story in the link bellow and also the link to the weeks sessions. We have seen some lovely photos of activities you have been doing with your Maths. Its lovely to hear that you are enjoying the Maths sessions. This week you will be doing some work on patterns, addition and subtraction and doubles. If you would like to learn a little more about ‘doubles’ we have added the link to the doubles rap that we would love you to have a try at learning.

For those of you who would like a little extra challenge then please have a go at some of these ‘Digging Deeper’ Tasks.

This week for our curriculum work we would like you to think about staying healthy. Please follow the different activities on the PowerPoint and think about ways that you can stay healthy. What things are you doing at home to stay healthy? See if you can help to make a healthy meal. And remember a great way to start your day in a healthy way is to join Jo Wickes on YouTube doing his daily exercise session.

Parents we would just like to say a massive thank you for all that you are doing at home. We know it is not an easy task to home school especially when you are also trying to work from home. We have had some feedback that some of the children are struggling at the moment. Please do not worry or stress. Let the children take the lead. If they don’t want to do something Please do not force it. The most important thing is to look after your child’s and your own well being. Get outside, go for a walk, bake a cake, play board games or card games, get down with the children and play their games or just read and chat to them. There is learning in everything that we do. If you don’t get all of the activities done it doesn’t matter. Do what you can and please try not to feel guilty we are all trying to get through this strange situation as best we can. Remember we are always only an email away and will get back to you as quickly as we can to offer any support or words of advice.

We hope you have lovely week and look forward to seeing your lovely photos (these do not just have to be of school work).

Take Care and stay safe

The Reception Team

Parents – thank you for the photos sent so far. If you do not want your child’s photo going on the blog page then please mention this to the class teacher when you email. We will try to add a selection of photos to the blog each week to show examples of some of the lovely work being done. Obviously we will be unable to put up every photo as adding 90 photos each week would be quite a mission but it is lovely for us to see them. Thank you for all you are doing at home with your children – we really appreciate it and can see some lovely activities being done. Please do not stress if you can’t get everything done, do what you can as any little bit is better than doing nothing. Try to read regularly there are lots of eBooks to read on the Oxford owl website.

Hello Reception. We would just like to say a massive well done to all those children having a go at the work set. It was lovely to see all of your photos. We love to see all the fantastic things you have been doing.

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If you didn’t manage to email your class teacher last week then please try to do so this week so we can keep in touch. The email addresses are: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Later this week your child’s class teacher will be ringing you to give you your child’s school email address and password. This will enable you to be able to live chat with staff for a given period about the work set. We will be using Microsoft teams to enable live chat so that you can discuss any problems you are having with the work. We will let you know next week when staff will be available. This weeks work can be found below. We have converted the Power-points to PDF’s for anyone who is unable to access PowerPoint.

This weeks Maths focus’ on the book ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. If you haven’t got the book at home then follow this link to find the story on YouTube. It would be a good idea to read the story first so that your child is familiar with the story.

If you would like a little extra challenge in Maths then you will find some digging deeper activities below

Our curriculum work this week is a continuation of our Spring theme with a focus on life cycles. This should link nicely to this weeks Maths work and the life cycle of a butterfly.

Have a wonderful week everybody. Don’t forget to celebrate VE day on Friday. Unfortunately when planning this weeks work the teachers forgot about Friday being a bank holiday. We planned for 5 days work but don’t feel you have to do all 5 days if you are having a break on Friday. If you do anything to celebrate V.E day then please send us a photo showing us what you did. We are looking forward to speaking to you all this week and will answer your emails as soon as we can.

Take care and stay safe,

The Reception Team

Hello Reception, we hope you are all well and have been enjoying the sunshine. It was lovely to speak to you all over the last two weeks. We loved hearing your voices and hearing all of your news it really made us smile. From this week we are starting our new way of learning as mentioned in our previous blog. Below you will find a weeks worth of Phonics, Maths and curriculum activities that are similar to what we would have been doing in school. Children can then email work to their class teacher but only if they would like too. They can send in a piece of work by taking a picture, a Word document/ PowerPoint or if they would just like to write to their teacher about their work. To send the piece of work to your child’s teacher please send it to the following relevant email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Please find below a weeks worth of Phonics activities for each of the Phonics groups. Please do the activities for the group that your child is in. They should know what phonics group they are in but if they are unsure then email your class teacher and they should be able to tell you. Remember to warm up for your Phonics session by singing the jolly phonics or tricky words songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

Please follow the following link to find a weeks worth of Maths activities that come from the White Rose scheme of work which is the scheme we follow in school. Follow the activities dated 27/4. If you would like to read any of the books that the activities relate to then you should be able to find these on you tube. We have added a link to one of the books to get you started. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWxBn-xvrQ (night pirates story on cbeebies)

For those of you that would like a little extra challenge in maths I have included the ‘Digging Deeper’ activities on pattern that have a focus on problem solving and reasoning.

We have also set a range of spring activities that you can do at home. Remember to talk about all of the changes that you notice between Spring and Winter and see if you can remember how it has changed from the Autumn.

We look forward to seeing some of your work over the coming week. Remember just email us once a week and we will do our best to get back to you. Enjoy the sunshine and don’t worry about getting everything done. Do as much as you can and remember the oxford owl website https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ follow the home learning link where you can access lots of eBooks that follow the reading scheme. If you find the books for 4-5 year old a little difficult then look at the year below. Likewise if you find them too easy then look at the year above. Remember Reading is the Key. Continue being the stars that you are and we hope to see you all soon,

The Reception Team

Hello Everyone, This will be our last blog until after the Easter break. After all of your hard learning at home you all deserve a lovely Easter break, as do all the home schooling parents. Enjoy the Easter break as much as you possibly can. Play games together, watch some films, get out into your garden if you can and enjoy being together. We have put together some craft ideas to do if you want to over the break. You could also make up your own obstacle courses, make up your own song or dance and maybe even do your own Easter egg hunt in your home or garden. You could even try to draw a map and see if someone can follow it to find the egg!

After the Easter break we will be changing the way we do our home learning. Each week we will be uploading a Phonics PowerPoint for the different Phonics groups, a Maths PowerPoint and and another PowerPoint with a range of activities. These PowerPoints will give an activity to do each day and will be in line with the activities the children would have been doing in School (Remember a large majority of Reception children’s learning is done through their play and the interactions the adults have and the questions they ask). Activities should only last about 20-30 minutes so don’t feel the children have to be sat doing school work all day long. Each class will also have an email address that we would like you to upload one piece of work per week. Staff will then reply to that piece of work. Please do not send in a picture of every piece of work as we will only reply to one piece for each child each week. This way we hope to keep in touch and can see if you are managing to do some home learning. We will let you know the email address after the Easter break on this blog.

Have a wonderful Easter with your families. Remember the greatest thing you can do now is stay safe at home. You can go out for some exercise each day but try and stay close to home and away from Parks and other spaces where lots of people may go. We are very proud of you all and miss you very much. Stay safe and enjoy your Easter treats over the weekend.

We will see you all soon and remember to decorate a picture of an egg and pop it in your window so we can spot them on our daily walk. Mrs Towner has her egg up in her window already.

The Reception Team

Hello Reception,

We are missing you lots but know that the safest place for you to be at the moment is at home with your families. We hope you are getting the chance to do lots of fun activities around the house and in the garden. Make sure you are getting your exercise each day. The Reception team are all trying to join in with Joe Wickes on you tube every morning and hope you are managing to join in too.

As we would have been preparing for Easter this week in school we have put together some different Easter activities for you to have a go at this week at home. Remember you don’t need to do everything, just do as much as you can to help keep you busy.

First we would like you to watch the following two episodes on cbeebies all about preparing and celebrating for Easter

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qVW9IjhIlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlJgYF-Ki8

After you have watched the two episodes, talk about the different ways that Easter was celebrated. In your journal write a simple sentence about one of the different ways and add a picture to go with it.

We hope you have fun trying out some of the Easter Activities. Don’t forget if you design your own Easter Egg, pop it in your front window so people can play ‘eye spy the Easter egg’

Have a wonderful week, stay safe and we will see you all soon,

From The Reception Team

Hi Everybody, we hope you are well and enjoying your time with your families. How are you getting on with the work in your pack? Don’t worry about doing it all at once, just do what you can. We will continue to add some suggestions each week of activities you can have a go at, at home. Again you don’t have to do all of these things but they are there for you to do if you can.

Remember reading is the most important thing you can do so read the books you brought home and visit the oxford owl website for a wide range of books that you will be able to read.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Other activities you might like to have a go at can be found below:

We hope you have fun trying some of these activities. Remember to visit the websites that were sent out in you packs as there are lots of games to access that will support the learning your have already done at school. Remember to get outside for some fresh air and daily exercise and keep washing those hands,

See you all soon, Stay safe

The Reception Team