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MEET THE TEAM

Belinda Jarman (Mrs)

Phase Leader - Early Years Foundation Stage & Reception Teacher

Diana Mitchell

Midday Supervisor

Izzara Byrd (Ms)

Nursery Teacher

Teresa Parzych

Nursery Nurse

Toni Cockram (Ms)

Teaching Assistant

About

Our weekly learning opportunities vary to follow the needs and interests of our children and new opportunities for learning as they arise, and are therefore flexible rather than fixed. We try to embody our school values as much as possible throughout each thread and during each day;

Advocates, Global Citizens,Resilient, Courteous, Free Thinkers.

THIS TERM WE

ARE LEARNING

English

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Music

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Art & Design

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PSHE / Wellbeing

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RE

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Science

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Geography / History

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Computing

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P.E.

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MFL

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Personal, Social & Emotional Development

Being Me in My World:

‘Who am I and how do I fit?’

 

Plus:

•Family Flower collages

•How to look after our environment – class areas and school

•Class Rules

•Toileting – being independent

Celebrating Difference:

Respect for similarity and difference.

Anti-bullying and being unique

Plus:

•What to do when we don’t win.

Dreams/Goals:

Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this

Plus:

•Caring for our world/animals

Healthy Me:

Being and keeping safe and healthy

Plus:

•How to help other who may be worried.

Relationships:

Building positive, healthy relationships

 

Plus:

•Taking care of the ducklings.

•How we can make sure we are being fair.

Changing Me:

Coping positively with change 

 

Plus:

•Looking after natural world

• Reception transition activities

English

Begin to talk about and retell familiar stories

Begin to use new vocabulary from stories and information books

Begin to understand that print carries meaning and has a purpose

Phase One Phonics:

Aspects 1,2,3

Aspects 4,6,1,2

Respond to conversations and questions about stories

Continue to use new vocabulary from stories and information books

Begin to understand that in English print is read from left to right and top to bottom

Phase One Phonics:

Aspects 5,4,6,3

Aspects 5,7,6,2

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Maths

Number songs 

Dates, registers, birthdays 

Subitising 

Introducing numbers 1-5 (the fourness of four etc.) 

Introducing Numicon

Ordering by height 

Advent calendars 

Counting 1-5 

How we use numbers (Nigel’s Numberless World) 

Counting1:1 

Shapes(Jon Klassen books) 

Positional anguage

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Understanding the World

Talk about self and family and how we are different and similar and unique

Experience, collect and name autumn materials.

The season of autumn – changes in weather, environment and animal behaviour. Hibernation and migration.

Discuss/visit places of worship

Invite visitors to share how they celebrate festivals

Learn about environments where animals hibernate/migrate

Observe snow and ice freezing and melting

Learn about Diwali, Hannukah, Christmas

Be ‘fox detectives’ in local environment

Talk about the past in Magic Paintbrush story

Talk about contrasts between city and ‘the wild’

Discuss caring for the natural world

Learn about Lunar New Year

Look at spring flowers we planted as bulbs

Careful observation of frogspawn/ tadpoles in tank

Look at teddies from the past

Talk about children’s own past (pictures of children withown teddies)

Learn about Easter

Observe life cycles (frogs/chicks)

Grow beans and cress

Plant potatoes, salad and flowers in our setting

Learn about Eid

Find/name/learn about range of minibeasts

Make boats to float on water

Draw treasure maps

Learn about the past through fossils and dinosaurs

Expressive Art and Design

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Transient art with natural materials 

Junk modelling fireworks

Explore range of tools/techniques for modelling

Close observational drawing of crab

Model using clay

Learn, rehearse and perform new songs

Create model animal habitat for puppet in several stages

Make loose parts picture from natural materials

 

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Close observational drawing of fox illustration

Work in groups to make giant train/lion head

Lion dancing parade with music

Use papier mache to make Humpty

Close observational drawings of old bears

Singing nursery rhymes

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Torn paper collage of spring flowers

Close observational drawing of bulb/shoot/flower, and of growing beans

Close observational drawing of minibeasts

Learn and perform songs for end of year concert

Physical Development

 Use and develop large and small muscles

Daily access to range of wheeled resources, range of large and small apparatus, and balls

Use of range of materials for mark-making

 Begin to use one-handed tools

Plus:

Explore outdoor area

Harvest and weed

Jumping off equipment safely

Putting on coat independently

Digging to plant bulbs

Use clay to make Diwa

Dreams/Goals:

Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this

Plus:

•Caring for our world/animals

Healthy Me:

Being and keeping safe and healthy

Plus:

•How to help other who may be worried.

 Use large and small muscle movements to mark-make with increasing control

 Continue to develop comfortable pencil grip with increasing control, showing preference for a dominant hand

Write some or all of own name

Begin to write some letters accurately

Plus: 

Manipulating clay

Using the Kitcamp

Sportsday practice

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

Being Me in My World:

‘Who am I and how do I fit?’

 

Plus:

•Family Flower collages

•How to look after our environment – class areas and school

•Class Rules

•Toileting – being independent

Celebrating Difference:

Respect for similarity and difference.

Anti-bullying and being unique

Plus:

•What to do when we don’t win.

Dreams/Goals:

Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this

Plus:

•Caring for our world/animals

Healthy Me:

Being and keeping safe and healthy

Plus:

•How to help other who may be worried.

Relationships:

Building positive, healthy relationships

 

Plus:

•Taking care of the ducklings.

•How we can make sure we are being fair.

Changing Me:

Coping positively with change 

 

Plus:

•Looking after natural world

• Reception transition activities

English

Begin to talk about and retell familiar stories

Begin to use new vocabulary from stories and information books

Begin to understand that print carries meaning and has a purpose

Phase One Phonics:

Aspects 1,2,3

Aspects 4,6,1,2

Respond to conversations and questions about stories

Continue to use new vocabulary from stories and information books

Begin to understand that in English print is read from left to right and top to bottom

Phase One Phonics:

Aspects 5,4,6,3

Aspects 5,7,6,2

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Maths

Number songs 

Dates, registers, birthdays 

Subitising 

Introducing numbers 1-5 (the fourness of four etc.) 

Introducing Numicon

Ordering by height 

Advent calendars 

Counting 1-5 

How we use numbers (Nigel’s Numberless World) 

Counting1:1 

Shapes(Jon Klassen books) 

Positional anguage

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Understanding the World

Talk about self and family and how we are different and similar and unique

Experience, collect and name autumn materials.

The season of autumn – changes in weather, environment and animal behaviour. Hibernation and migration.

Discuss/visit places of worship

Invite visitors to share how they celebrate festivals

Learn about environments where animals hibernate/migrate

Observe snow and ice freezing and melting

Learn about Diwali, Hannukah, Christmas

Be ‘fox detectives’ in local environment

Talk about the past in Magic Paintbrush story

Talk about contrasts between city and ‘the wild’

Discuss caring for the natural world

Learn about Lunar New Year

Look at spring flowers we planted as bulbs

Careful observation of frogspawn/ tadpoles in tank

Look at teddies from the past

Talk about children’s own past (pictures of children withown teddies)

Learn about Easter

Observe life cycles (frogs/chicks)

Grow beans and cress

Plant potatoes, salad and flowers in our setting

Learn about Eid

Find/name/learn about range of minibeasts

Make boats to float on water

Draw treasure maps

Learn about the past through fossils and dinosaurs

Expressive Art and Design

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Transient art with natural materials 

Junk modelling fireworks

Explore range of tools/techniques for modelling

Close observational drawing of crab

Model using clay

Learn, rehearse and perform new songs

Create model animal habitat for puppet in several stages

Make loose parts picture from natural materials

 

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Close observational drawing of fox illustration

Work in groups to make giant train/lion head

Lion dancing parade with music

Use papier mache to make Humpty

Close observational drawings of old bears

Singing nursery rhymes

Weekly singing and music lessons, daily singing and rhymes in class

Daily access to a range of materials and tools for drawing, painting, collage and construction

Daily access to spaces, resources and props for imaginative play, role play and performance

Opportunities for music making with percussion

Plus:

Torn paper collage of spring flowers

Close observational drawing of bulb/shoot/flower, and of growing beans

Close observational drawing of minibeasts

Learn and perform songs for end of year concert

Physical Development

 Use and develop large and small muscles

Daily access to range of wheeled resources, range of large and small apparatus, and balls

Use of range of materials for mark-making

 Begin to use one-handed tools

Plus:

Explore outdoor area

Harvest and weed

Jumping off equipment safely

Putting on coat independently

Digging to plant bulbs

Use clay to make Diwa

Dreams/Goals:

Aspirations, how to achieve goals and understanding the emotions that go with this

Plus:

•Caring for our world/animals

Healthy Me:

Being and keeping safe and healthy

Plus:

•How to help other who may be worried.

 Use large and small muscle movements to mark-make with increasing control

 Continue to develop comfortable pencil grip with increasing control, showing preference for a dominant hand

Write some or all of own name

Begin to write some letters accurately

Plus: 

Manipulating clay

Using the Kitcamp

Sportsday practice

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