Reception/Year 1 Class

Teachers: Mrs Roberts and Miss Thomas

TAs: Mrs Middle, Mrs Speake, Mrs Raven

Speaking and Listening

We will learn how to listen carefully to each other. We explore stories and rhymes through role play and small world play. We will learn new vocabulary and will have lots of opportunities to practise asking questions and expressing our own thoughts and ideas clearly.

Personal Social and Emotional Development

We have a special friend in Clee Class, he is a giraffe called Harold, he helps us to learn more about ourselves and each other. This term he will help us to think about ‘what makes us special?’ and ‘who is special to us?’ before moving on to helping us to recognise and name feelings in ourselves and

Physical Development

We will have fun playing on outdoor play equipment, jumping, balancing, sweeping and building. We will use lots of different media to make marks, such as chalks, felt pens, crayons, water, paint and lots more! All these activities  help to build the muscles we need for writing.

Literacy

We love stories and rhymes – every day we will share stories, joining in with the repeated parts. We will sing together and learn new rhymes and songs. We will act out familiar stories and make up new ones of our own.

Phonics

In Clee class we will have a daily phonics session; your child will learn to listen for sounds and recognise letters in order to ‘blend’ them together to make words and ‘segment’ words into their individual sounds to write words.

Mathematics

We will begin by singing lots of counting rhymes like ‘1 Man Went to Mow’ and ‘5 Little Ducks’ to learn the order of numbers both forwards and backwards. We will learn how to recognise an amount up to 5 without having to count it, this is called ‘subitising’! We will learn rules for counting accurately and how to quickly show an amount on our fingers.

Understanding the World

This term we will look at ‘seasonal changes’ as Summer turns to Autumn and then Winter. We will use our time in Forest School to explore the changes that are happening around us. Later we will learn more about different communities  by exploring  festivals and celebrations. We will also find out about ‘Materials’ by making playdough, cooking and building with lots of different resources.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will be supported to access resources independently to express ourselves creatively  using playdough, collage, pencils, pens and paint.