Reception Elm Class 2024 - 2025

Support Staff: Mrs Bell, Mrs Corkish & Mrs Crawford

Mrs Burns	Mrs Bell	Mrs Crawford	Mrs Corkish

Curriculum Information for Summer 2

Talk 4 Writing

In Summer 2, we will learn the traditional fable - 'The Little Red Hen' which looks at the importance of hard work and initiative.

Our key themes when learning about this story will be about the importance of perseverance and putting effort into achieving our goals. We will be highlighting the value of cooperation and supporting others, fostering empathy and kindness.

We will encourage children to use their 'Fred Fingers' to use their phonics to write words and write simple sentences inspired by the story. We will retell the story to an audience using expression and story telling language. 

The books in Summer term that will be used to develop our story language are:

Mr Gumpy's Motor Car - John Burningham

Don't Forget the Bacon - Pat Hutchins

Farmer Duck - Martin Waddell

Maths -

By the end of Reception children need to be able to:

• recognise numbers to 20
• order numbers
• know 1 more and 1 less than a number
• add and subtract numbers up to 20
• double and half numbers
• estimate numbers
• know 2D and 3D shapes
• be able to use positional langauge
• Talk about time and money

Topics - 

During Summer 2 we will be using a 'Plan-Do-Review' approach to learning, developing our approach to 'Rainbow Challenges' and finding out all about:

Under the Sea

Holidays

Transport + Travel

Space

Dinosaurs

We will also be having lots of exciting transition opportunities to get us ready for Year 1, such as meeting our new teachers for weekly reads, spending a day with our new teachers and finding out more about what we will be doing when we move up to Year 1.

Important Information:

PE- Oak class will have their PE sessions on Thursday

PE Uniform: 

• Team colour t-shirt
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. 

All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has a designated day when they will be listened to reading, and any 'Strive for Five' dojos they have earned will be awarded. These will be reviewed on the following days.

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

Homework Information

This is sent via Dojo alternate Fridays. We ask parents to take a photo/video and upload the homework so we can see how well children are progressing their learning at home.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the EYFS team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Dough Disco
• Phonics
• Letter Formation