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Autumn Term in Reception
The following information is for the events specific to Reception this half term - this will be updated throughout the year.
Well hello Autumn Term! We hope you have all had a lovely Summer break and are all refreshed for a new term. We are so excited to be welcoming our newest Grove Valers as they begin their primary school journey! This term we will begin by helping the children to settle in, make friends and learning our school rules before moving on to some exciting learning opportunities so take a look at some of the things we will be doing over the coming weeks. Keep up to date by using Tapestry and look out for our memos which will give you further information throughout the term.
Teacher Led Topic this half term:
Our Topic this half term is Marvellous Me. To introduce our topic we will be making biscuit faces, going on a senses walk around school and making houses including our family. There will be some taught sessions and then further activities to develop and support your child's interests. These will cover the 7 Areas of Learning in the EYFS Educational Programmes.
Autumn 1 - Marvellous Me Overview
Books and Stories
This half term we have lots of opportunities for reading books and stories to your children as part of our day. Here is just a sample of the stories we will be reading:
Books from the Little People, Big Dreams range
A selection of Information books
The Colour Monster Goes to School
Marvellous Me
Funny Bones
Peace at Last
Leaf Man
Rama and Sita/ Best Diwali Ever
Special days/events:
- Parent Drop Ins - Thursdays 19th and 26th September, Thursday 3rd October - 9am - 9.30am
- Reception Parent Workshop – Online Safety - Tuesday 16th September 9am - 10am
- Reception Parent Workshop - Curriculum, Reading and Phonics Thursday 26th September – 9.15am – 10.15am and 2pm – 3pm
- Season Walk to Red House Park - Monday 30th September and Tuesday 1st October (provisional)
- Scholastic Book Fair - 14th - 17th October
- Parents Evening – Wednesday 23rd October and Thursday 24th October 3.45pm - 6.30pm
- Forest Schools - weekly. More information to follow.
- Black History Month – October
- Divali Celebration - Friday 25th October
- Remembrance Day
- Children in Need - Friday 15th November
- Nativity Performance - dates to be confirmed
Swimming Information
SWIMMING: for this half term we are going to take 2 family groups at a time and alternate this every other week. We will confirm the start date for swimming in the first few weeks, once we have seen how the children have settled in.
Please see the uniform leaflet for guidance on the appropriate swimwear.
No jewellery is allowed at all.
ALL children need a NAMED bag with a named swimming hat and towel.
School staff are supporting with swimming, both at the poolside and in the changing rooms.
* If you wish your child to wear swimming goggles you must send in written permission for your child. You only need to do this once as the letter will be kept for the rest of the term.
* It would be very helpful if girls could wear socks rather than tights as they are finding these difficult to put back on.
OUR RECEPTION DAY
The following outlines the activities and experiences your child will have throughout the week.
-SODA (our soft start activity)
-Jolly Jobs (teacher led activities)
-Learning Lots (child initiated, play activities)
-Phonics
-Kinetic Letters (handwriting)
-Quick Maths (maths activities, songs and stories)
-Read and Rhyme (guided reading session, nursery rhymes, library etc)
Our Feel Good Friday activities include - Special People, Yoga, Hey Duggee Workouts, Mindfulness, Music & Movement, Commando Joe, Games and Physical Development tasks.
Each week we share the Picture News for that week, which looks at a current news story and discusses what it is about and how it makes us feel.
A COUPLE OF OTHER REMINDERS
-Check memos we upload on Tapestry to ensure that you are kept aware of the activities and information needed about weekly events.
-Each week we have some time for children to share anything you have uploaded on tapestry from home so please keep uploading, the children love sharing it with us and the other children.
Please upload the Summer Project task to Tapestry by Friday 13th September, so we are able to share it with the children. A new Tapestry Project will be set later on in the term.
As the year progresses, we will begin to set homework related to the other areas of learning. These may include a weekly Maths task set on Tapestry for you to complete with your child, allocated eBooks and phonics games and word reading activities.
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