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 and taking on some role-play! We will be learning about transport that we would see in the world around us and things that are particular to use. 

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 and toileting 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 be safe when out in the community – during our CAFT trip.

-To gain an awareness of how to say please and thank you when making requests to people who help us – use signs for these.

- To develop turn taking and sharing with others.

Communication and Literacy

- PECs – Introduce choices for the children depending on their level of development. Use communication boards to create sentences “I want…” 

-To explore the key text “Kitsy Bitsy Noisy Neighbours” and “the neighbourhood surprise” and begin to make connections with things from the book. 

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

-To continue to use vocabulary related to different occupations – police, fireman, shop keeper etc. To use key words – car, bus, plane, bike, train etc.

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

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

-To make a range of marks to represent their day out to CAFT.

- Sensory story – The smartest giant in town

Physical

-Is able to jump up and down on two feet  

- Explore emptying and filling containers

-Claps hands independently.

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

- To throw and catch a ball.

- Holds a cup independently and tips to pour.

Mathematics 

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

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

- To begin to order numbers to 10.

White Rose Reception:

One more, one less, subitising, introducing 0, capacity and mass – comparing these.

White Rose Year 1:

Addition and subtraction and shape

Understanding the world 

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

- To create some marks to represent where we live. (maps)

- To learn about different modes of transport that we would see during day to day life – bus, car, bike, taxi, train

- To visit CAFT with the children. Explore the unfamiliar environment and try new challenges.

-To learn about keeping our environment clean and recycling – put rubbish into different categorise using the litter pickers.

Expressive Arts and Design

Art: To collage different buildings within the community using tissue paper and create transport vehicles with junk modelling.

Music: The wheels on the bus: 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.