This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Russell teaching you. 

You will also have Mrs Stringer and Miss McLoughlin each day. 

Our current topic is: Nature and Colours  

This half-term we are going to be learning all about plants, what they need to grow and different parts of a plant. We are going to be learning about taking care of the environment and the world around us. We will also be exploring colour, naming and categorising colour and creating with colour!

Our Learning focus will be: 

Personal, social and emotional development 

- Makes simple choices

- Builds confidence expressing preferences

- Participates alongside peers

- Works cooperatively with support

- Builds resilience through exploration

- Shares resources appropriately

- Develops self-confidence

- Participates in group celebration

- Recognises own achievements

-To take on responsibility when watering the plants – care for living things.

-Talk about differences in people when doing the rainbow fish.

Communication and Literacy

-To begin to engage with our good morning song, singing good morning to each of our friends, waving, showing shared attention.

- To respond to simple colour vocabulary

- To begin to identify or match primary colours

-To use gestures, signs, symbols, or words to communicate choice

-To access phonics 1:1 or in small groups building on prior skills and knowledge.  

-Engages with stories and visuals

-Recognises colour symbols/words where appropriate

-Develops early mark-making skills

- Anticipates outcomes

-Uses vocabulary linked to change

-Follows simple instructions

- Builds on story telling language and sequences – The Rainbow Fish.

Physical

- To throw a ball and attempt to catch a ball with some support.

- To balance on one leg and to be able to jump with two.

- To move safely between activities.

- Builds body awareness.

- To walk along a bench or beam

- To show control when holding books or mark making tools.

- To begin to open and close scissors with support.

Mathematics 

- To join in with number songs – 5 little men in a flying saucer, 5 little ducks etc. 5 speckled frogs

- To count and match 1:1 with objects to 10.

- To begin to order numbers to 10.

White Rose Reception: 

- To learn about and compare length and height

- To gain an understanding of time.

- To become confident in building 9 and 10.

- To gain confidence with 3D shapes. 

White Rose Year 1: 

- Addition and subtraction with numbers to 20.

-To become confident with 2D and 3D shapes.

- To gain confidence with place value within 20.  

Understanding the world 

- To gain an understanding of what plants need / the life cycle of a plant

- Notices similarities and differences

- Explores cause and effect

- Shows curiosity about colour changes

- Observes changes

- Begins prediction skills

- Investigates materials using senses

- Explores diversity and similarities

- Uses simple technology purposefully

- Investigates colour in everyday life

Expressive Arts and Design

Art: To experiment with colours to create a rainbow, to make a rainbow using transient art.

Music: To learn the rainbow song and sign language to go with this. Listen to a range of songs about colours.

Role play: Superheroes – masks and capes. Creating imaginative stories.

 

Our curriculum is flexible and unique to each individual and will be adapted to suit the different stages of development that the child is currently working at. 

Our routine will be flexible based on the needs of the children. However, there will be structured elements to the day. 

You can drop your child off between 8:40am-9am through the entrance to the classroom. 

Children will take part in indoor and outdoor play each day, so please send in coats/hats/sun cream etc. depending on the weather. 

Children will have access to snack each day, as well as take part in our toothbrushing programme. 

They will do phonics daily, access their specific interventions as well as learn new concepts and skills within their current topic. 

Specific learning activities will be mapped out throughout the week for your child to access, depending on their developmental level. Our activities will be ambitious to encourage all learners to reach for the stars! 

Communication and language will be at the heart of everything that we do, removing barriers and encouraging communication within all elements of the school day. 

Children will have the opportunity to work with staff, build relationships with other children and integrate into different social situations with tailored support. 

The children will have lunch within the classroom and will be supported by staff when doing so. 

Children can be collected between 3pm-3:15pm at the latest, via The Nurture Centre entrance. 

Should our routine change in any way, Mrs Russell will inform you of this. Children will be prepared for any changes, whether this is planned or at the last minute. 

We will be doing lots of intervention that is specific to your child during their time at school with us. This will involve 1:1 activities, small group and larger group scenarios, depending on where your child is currently working at. We will assess each child throughout the half-term on their engagement with this and adapt where necessary. We will have a focus on communication and language and this will be threaded through the curriculum and the interventions that we will engage in. 

We will be communicating through Tapestry each week. Please look out for observations, photos, messages and letters. We would love for you to add some of your own pictures. Share with us your weekend adventures. We will use these as a talking point within the class.