Welcome to Reception Class!
A very warm welcome to our Reception Class here at St. Anne’s. We are so excited to welcome you in to our school Family. On behalf of Mrs. Peairs and myself we want you to know that you are very welcome and we feel so privileged that you have entrusted us with the care of your children. We have made a great start in Reception, building relationships and learning new rules and routines. The shoeboxes have been really useful for us to get to know your children a little better and also to help them with their confidence and making new friends.
Some useful information for Reception Class
Leo the lion Leo is our class mascot. The children have been introduced to him already. Leo will visit a different child each week where you can record your weekend fun to share in class.
PE – Alongside daily ‘Jump Start Jonny’ exercise and being physical in our outdoor garden we will also have a weekly PE lesson. Our PE day will be Thursday. The children are to come to school wearing their PE Kit. This is a plain blue t-shirt with maroon shorts and velcro trainers. If the weather is cooler they can wear their school jumper over the top with plain leggings or joggers. (grey, navy or black.) We will have TASC football in every other Wednesday as we share with Nursery. Our first session will be this Wednesday 11th September. The children also come dressed in their P.E kit to school.
Phonics – Now that the children are feeling settled in to school we will begin our daily Read Write Inc phonics sessions later this week. We will be holding a meeting in school during the Autumn term with more information for parents. (Details to follow.)
To begin with your child will bring home a ‘reading for pleasure’ library book which they can swap weekly.
Worship – Worship is a big part of St. Anne’s life and we have already held a class worship to welcome our new families.
Early Years Fund – We do welcome a voluntary £1 a week contribution from families towards our Early Years Fund. This helps fund extra craft activities, cooking and food tasting experiences throughout the year. Please could you bring this in, in a named envelope. Thank you.
Buddies – We do have a buddies system here at St. Anne’s where we will buddy your child up with a child from year 6. We will be starting this next week. This really helps our children to settle in and gives them a special helper around school to support and look out for them. We will host a welcome assembly with buddies for families to attend. (details to follow.)
Tuck – On the last Friday of every term we run a tuck shop. The children can bring in 30p for a small chocolate bar. This money is to be brought in, in a named envelope.
Homework – The children will be set small homework tasks on a Friday from time to time. We ask that this is brought back by the following Wednesday so that we can get the books ready for the next week.
Water bottles – Children are to bring their water bottle in to school daily.
Spare clothes and wellies – Can we please ask that the children have some spare clothes to remain at school on their peg please. Can they also bring in a pair of wellies to keep at school for wet conditions. Can all items of clothing and footwear be named please.
What are we learning this half term?
This half term we will be focussing on ‘marvellous me.’ and looking at ‘Autumn’ and ‘Harvest time.’
We will be spending lots of time settling in to school life and focus on building relationships.
Phonics – towards the end of the first week of staying all day, we will begin learning our set one phonic sounds starting with m,a,s and d. A separate meeting will be held with Miss. Taylor our phonics lead to explain in more detail about how our phonics sessions are ran.
Maths – We follow the White Rose maths scheme. For the first two weeks we will focus on settling the children in with lots of number rhymes and counting. From week 3 we will begin to look at -matching, sorting, comparing and making simple patterns.
Literacy/ PSED – We will be looking at a different core book each week. We will be starting with ‘The Everywhere Bear’ followed by ‘The Colour Monster’ exploring our feelings.
Following these we will move on to Autumn stories such as ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ and ‘Pumpkin Soup.’
We will be looking at our names and having a go at writing these.
Knowledge of the world – We will be looking closely at the changes in seasons and going on an Autumn Walk around the school grounds
RE– We will be learning how the Harvest Festival is celebrated in a church.
PE/ physical development- We will be learning the rules and expectations for our PE lessons and beginning to play simple games, learning our different body parts and discovering how we can move using them.
We will be looking at fine motor skills to help us hold our pencil such as introducing dough disco.
Expressive Arts and Design –
Exploring colour
Every Tuesday we have music sessions delivered by Mrs. Coullis. To begin with, she will be focussing on keeping a steady beat.
I appreciate this is a lot of information to take in. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you.
Mrs. Tonge
