Reception/Year 1 Class

Teachers: Mrs Roberts and Miss Thomas

TAs: Mrs Middle, Mrs Raven

Speaking and Listening

In Clee Class we have been working hard learning how to listen to each other during whole class carpet sessions and throughout our learning and play.  We continue to explore stories and rhymes through role play and small world play.  The children are exposed to lots of new vocabulary to develop their understanding of words and topics and supported to ask questions and express 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 ‘being my best’ and ‘growing and changing.’

Physical Development

The children have developed a love and energy for playing outdoors with the play equipment, and are developing their imagination to create scenarios with their friends and love 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.  Forest School is also a great place for the children to develop in this area.

Literacy

We continue to enjoy stories and rhymes.  This term the children will support their writing through a variety of stories, including: Supertato, Jack and the Beanstalk, That’s My Flower, and other which links nicely with our theme on plants. We will continue to develop our love of Drawing Club which helps the children to find the independence and ownership of their own writing.

Phonics

Clee Class will continue with daily phonic sessions. As the children develop their phonic knowledge, they will become more confident to segment and blend the linked reading books to share at home. This term, we will be reviewing sounds that we have already learnt as well as diving into Phase 5 phonemes which support children to learn other representations graphemes e.g. that ai in Phase 3 can also be spelt using ay, a_e.  The children enjoy practising their mark-making with various media and tools during continuous play and creative opportunities.

Mathematics

We start the term with ‘3D shapes’ and move onto ‘To 20 and Beyond’ progressing with bigger numbers.  The children will continue to learn using many practical activities to support their understanding.

Understanding the World

This term we will look at ‘plants and growing.’  As Spring turns to Summer we will use our time in Forest School to explore the changes that are happening around us.  Later we will learn more about life cycles, maps and life under the ocean where children can learn also develop their understanding about floating and sinking by building boats.

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will be supported to use resources independently, express themselves creatively  using playdough, collage, pencils, pens, paint and the class favourite – junk.