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Mrs Holmes Mrs Edwards Mrs Fairley

Mrs Welensky and Miss McDonnell

Tim imings ings of

• f the day
• Doors open at 8.40am
• Register is taken at 8.50am
• Pick up is 3.10pm
• Playtime 10.40am – 10.55am
• Lunchtime 11.45 am – 1.00pm

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• rm St

Standards ndards

• Polo shirt
• Sweatshirt
• Shorts, skirt or pinafore dress
• Grey socks
• White or grey tights
• Black shoes
• Tracksuit on P.E / Forest School

days

• Small green / red bows in hair

Name, name, name everything!

• Please name al

all school uniform, P.E kits, plimsolls, packed lunch boxes and school bags.

• We do try to encourage children

to take responsibility for their belongings and it is much easier when everything is named.

What is the EYFS?

Early Years Foundation Stage

• E.Y.F.S. is the stage of education for children from

birth to the end of the Reception year.

• It is based on the recognition that children learn

best through play and active learning.

• All learning takes place in both the inside and
• utside classrooms.

Prime Areas

These are considered to be fundamental to children’s development

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• Communication and Language

PSED

Pe Personal, nal, So Soci cial l and d Emotio tional al Dev evel elopment ment

• Forming positive relationships with adults

and children

• Playing co-operatively with others
• Developing confidence and becoming more

independent

• Understanding and following

the rules

Physical Development

• Gross and fine motor skills
• Developing good control and

co-ordination in large and small movements

• Handling equipment and tools

effectively, including pencils for writing

• Independently getting dressed

and undressed

Communication and Language

• Understanding and acting on instructions
• Developing language and communication
• Developing listening and attention skills

Specific Areas

• essential skills and knowledge
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the

World

• Expressive Arts

and Design

Reading ing

• Linking sounds to letters
• Segmenting sounds in words and blending them

together

• Reading words and simple sentences

Writing ting

• Developing pencil control
• Beginning to form identifiable letters
• Attempting to write simple words

and sentences

Literacy

• We follow the

scheme for phonics as well as

• Phonics sessions take place daily. There is an

action and a song to go with each sound.

• Once your child is familiar with a range of letters

and associated sounds then we will start to send home sets of CVC words for your child to practise blending sounds together to make words.

Phonics

**Phonics Workshop on Friday 27th at 2pm **

Reading

• The first books that come home may not have any

words in – please encourage your child to talk about what’s happening in the pictures. We then introduce blending CVC words and then reading books when your child is ready.

• All books are changed three times a week on

Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

• Please write a comment in the reading journal to let

us know that you have heard your child read and do try to read with your child every night. The children can also select a book to share with you at home from the Reception Bookshelf on a daily basis.

Reading Book example

Drop Everything and Read Thursdays at 2.45pm Everyone welcome

• The children are taught letter formation as they learn

the sounds of the alphabet during a daily handwriting session.

• We teach a catchy phrase to help letter formation.

Writing

Writing example

Number

• Helping children to count, recognise and order

numbers to twenty and beyond and introducing addition and subtraction.

• Practical problem solving

Shape,s e,spac pace and measure

• Encouraging the use of mathematical language
• Exploring size, weight, capacity, position, distance,

time money and patterns

• Supporting children’s

understanding of shape and size including 2D and 3D shapes.

Mathematics

Understanding the World

• Learning about traditions and other cultures
• Exploring and investigating the environment
• Looking at change and life cycles
• Exploring a range of technology, which includes a

weekly visit to the ICT Suite

Expressive Arts and Design

• Developing confidence and imagination
• Exploring music and dance
• Experimenting with a variety of materials,

tools and techniques

• Introducing narratives in role play

Forest School

Forest School will start on the Monday after half term and will take place in all weather conditions with the possible exception of extremely high winds. . Children should wear the green tracksuit on Forest School days , and will need red waterproof trousers and jacket and a pair of wellies which will all remain at school. Please provide a bag that is easy for your child to identify to hold the waterproofs.

Homework

• A homework task will be sent home every

Friday for return on Monday.

• These could be Maths or Literacy based or
• r

could be a task linked to the other areas of learning or our topic.

• Please encourage your child to complete

any homework as independently as possible.

• Your child’s first homework will be sent

home once we start phonics.

How should we behave? GO GOING NG FO FOR GR GREE EEN!!! N!!!

Awards and Recognition

Max the Class Bear

Ho Houses and Ho House Po Points ts

• Children are put into one of four houses
• Redgrave, Ennis-Hill, Simmonds, Farah
• If they have a sibling then it will be the same
• ne as their brother / sister
• Children can earn House points
• n a daily basis

The Weekly ly Timet etable ble

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8.40 5 A Day / Register Counting 5 A Day / Register Counting 5 A Day / Register Counting 5 A Day / Register Counting 5 A Day / Register Counting 8.55 Phonics Session 1 New Sound Phonics Session 2 New Sound Phonics Session 3 New Sound Phonics Session 4 New Sound Phonics Consolidation 9.10 Literacy Task 1 Challenges Literacy Task 2 Challenges Literacy Task 3 Challenges Literacy Task 4 Challenges Literacy Task 5 Challenges 10.00 Dough Disco Handwriting Dough Disco Handwriting Dough Disco Handwriting Dough Disco Handwriting Dough Disco Number formation 10.20 Fruit and Drink Story Fruit and Drink Story Fruit and Drink Story Fruit and Drink Story Fruit and Drink Story 10.40 Playtime Playtime Playtime Playtime Playtime 10.55 Maths 1 Maths Task 1 Maths 2 Maths Task 2 Maths 3 Maths Task 3 Maths 4 Maths Task 4 Maths 5 Maths task 5 11.45 Lunchtime Lunchtime Lunchtime Lunchtime Lunchtime 1.00 Register Register Register Register Register Forest School 1.30pm P.E Topic Work *Readers* Activities ICT Circle Time 2.40 - 3.00pm Birthday Assembly 2.45 – 3.00pm Drop Everything and Read *Readers* Activities 2.55 Story / Songs Story / Songs Story / Songs Story / Songs Story / Songs 3.10 Home Home Home Home Home

Visit its s and Exp xperien riences ces Pl Planned for the Year Year

• Autumn - visits from the Police, a Fire

Engine and the Lollipop lady

• Spring - visit to Royal Observatory in

Greenwich

• Summer - visit to Godstone Farm

Target get Sh Sheets ts and Pa Packs

FARNBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL Reception Autumn Term

Reading Targets To listen to stories with increasing attention and re-call and to understand that text is read from left to right.

• read to your child as often as you can sharing the

pictures and the text with them and asking questions about the story

• point to the words as you read them
• go to the library to choose books together

To begin to recognise familiar words and signs eg their own name, advertising logos etc.

• encourage your child to recognise their name when

they see it, e.g. in birthday cards

• point out familiar words as you are out and about with

your child To link sounds to letters, sounding the letters of the alphabet correctly.

• ask your child about the sounds they have been

learning at school / ask them to sing the Jolly Phonics songs to you

• use some lower case magnetic letters and ask your

child to tell you what sound they make / put them on the fridge so that they can practise them at home To hear and say the initial sounds in words.

• ask your child to help you with a shopping list, e.g. see

if they can tell you the first sound of the item you need to buy

• talk and ask about the sounds everyday objects begin

with as you are out and about with your child

• go onto www.phonicsplay.co.uk and play some of the

phonics games from Phases 1 and 2 with your child To segment the sounds in simple CVC words and then blend them together.

• use some lower case magnetic letters / individual letter

cards to make some simple cvc words, e.g. c-a-t. Ask your child to tell you each individual sound and then ask them to blend them together to make a word

• go onto www.phonicsplay.co.uk and play some

phonics games from Phase 2/3 with your child To use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.

• when you hear your child read encourage them to use

their phonic knowledge to segment the words into the sounds they know and then to blend those sounds together to make the word

• go onto www.phonicsplay.co.uk and play some phonics

games from Phase 2/3 with your child To read some common irregular (tricky) words accurately.

• use flashcards with the tricky words on and show them

regularly to your child. Add more words as they start to recognise them ( Class Teachers can provide lists of tricky words )

• go onto www.phonicsplay.co.uk and play some tricky

words phonics games from Phase 2/3 with your child To demonstrate understanding when talking to

• thers about what they have read.
• ask your child to re-tell the story to you in their own

words once they have read it to you. If they need prompting ask what happened first, next, last etc

• use the prompts in the back of the school reading

books to ask them other questions about what they have read

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