Reception Elm Class 2024 - 2025

Support Staff: Mrs Bell, Mrs Corkish & Ms Williams

Mrs Burns	Mrs Bell	Mrs Crawford	Mrs Corkish

Curriculum Information for Autumn 1

Talk 4 Writing

In T4W this half term we will be learning a story about a gingerbread man that comes to life. In the story, he runs away from the woman that baked him and out of her house. The story is told through a series of repetitive scenes, as the gingerbread runs away from more and more characters. Eventually, there’s quite a crowd in pursuit. Every time the gingerbread man meets a new character, he repeats the refrain: ‘Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man.’

We will learn our text by retelling it using actions, drawing a story map and using role play. We will innovate our story by changing some of the characters.  Throughout the half term we will also invent our own stories for our friends to hear.

Other texts that will make up our 'Enrichment Texts' this half term and be used to develop our story language are:

Biscuit Bear 

Mini Grey

Thumbelina  

Hans Christian Andersen 

The Naughty Bus 

Jan and Jerry Oke 

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 Autumn 1 we will be using a 'Plan-Do-Review' approach to learning and finding out all about:

• All about me
• Routines 
• Autumn 
• Pets 

Important Information for Autumn 1:

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 an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

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 each Friday. We ask parents to take a photo and upload the homework so we can see how well children are progressing their learning at home.

For Maths homework we will be using Numbots. Your child will be provided with a login to access this. We ask that your child access Numbots for 15minutes across the week. 

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

• Numbots
• Dough Disco
• Phonics
• Letter Formation

Click the link for key information about life in Reception Classes