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: Our school and community

This term we are going to become more familiar with our classroom, school and the significant places around us. We will be looking at and exploring map skills, focusing on familiar buildings and places that we may visit, and routes that we are familiar with. We will be exploring people who we may meet within the community and roles that are around to help us, such as the police. 

Our Learning focus will be: 

Personal, social and emotional development 

-Continue to embed the zones of regulation and colour monsters. Labelling different emotions with the children.

-Showing engagement with feeding a drinking – encourage children to become more independent during this part of the routine – using forks etc.

-Engage within nappy changing time – understanding the routine more and using the now/next.

-To learn about people around us and who we can go to when we need help. “help please”

-To become more familiar with our classroom and some other familiar places around school – lunch hall, playground, outdoors etc.

- To develop turn taking and sharing with others.

Communication and Literacy

- PECs – Continue two images using PECs at snack time. Use the cross and tick to allow children to communicate when they like/dislike things.

-To explore the key text “colour monsters” and begin to make connections with things from the book, colour monster teddies and our emotions.

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

-To introduce vocabulary related to different occupations – police, fireman, shop keeper etc. To match the vocabulary used with an image.

- To read stories around school and the community – shared attention.

-To access phonics 1:1 or in small groups, based on stage of development. 

Physical

-Is able to jump up and down on two feet  

- Can avoid obstacles by changing directions – when we are learning about road safety.

-Claps hands independently.

-To create pre-writing shapes, following the lines and maps.

- To throw and catch a ball.

-To roll more accurately. 

Mathematics 

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

- To begin to order numbers to 10.

- To compare amounts using “more” and “less”

White Rose Reception: Circles and triangles, 1,2,3,4,5 and shapes with 4 sides.

White Rose Year 1: Addition and subtraction and shape

Understanding the world 

-To become more familiar with their school environment and the people who are able to help them when they need it.

- To learn about people within the community who are there to help us – police, fireman, doctors, nurse etc.

- To create some marks to represent our classroom and school and where we live. (maps)

-Make comparisons between different spaces around schools – using photographs taken. Identify our classroom.

Expressive Arts and Design

Art: To use different materials to create a desired effect. To create a range of artwork using different media – brushes, chalk, pencils, pens, stamps etc.

Music: To play loud and quiet sounds and stop and go with the instruments.

Role play: Dress-up as different characters/occupations

 

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.