Wheatfield Primary School

About Reception:

In Reception our teachers are Miss Blackford (Class RJ) and Miss Clarke (Class RC). Our teaching assistants are Mrs Goldstone and Mrs Binding. Mrs Oujeil and Mrs O’Leary support across both classes.

What should my child bring to school?
Please label every item that belongs to your child including their school uniform and belongings i.e. water bottle. You could use a permanent pen or buy personalised name labels which you can stick onto their belongings. Your child will have a peg in the cloakroom where they can store their coat and welly boots. Your child will have a drawer in the classroom for their book bag and snack.

Term 5 Learning

PSED

At Wheatfield Primary we follow a scheme called Jigsaw. We use the focus for each unit as an overarching ‘theme’ for each term, linking this to our other learning, as we really value the importance of PSED in your child’s development.

The theme for Term 5 is 'Relationships'.

We will be focusing on within this theme…

• • Exploring our big question: ‘how can we help others?’
  • How we can help our friends and family
  • How to make friends and stop ourselves from feeling lonely
  • Solving problems and staying friends
  • What to do if we fall out with a friend
  • Managing our emotions

Continuing to focus on our special ‘reaching the pot of gold' recognition board, how we can achieve this, and our school values.

Each day, when children demonstrate going 'above and beyond' by representing our school values, they can work towards reaching the pot of gold on our class display. If they reach this, they will be given a special 'pot of gold' certificate. 

Writing

During Term 5 we will continue to develop our fine and gross motor skills to strengthen our hand and body muscles, supporting our writing. We are helping to support each child so they can effectively form the Phase 2 and 3 phonemes already taught. Alongside beginning to write Phase 4 CVCC words for example: damp, track, lost.

Our writing focus:

• Develop and strengthen our fine and gross motor skills in preparation for writing / helping form letters correctly
• Develop our pencil control and grip
• Matching the phoneme and grapheme
• Writing our names
• Writing initial sounds and CVC words (including Phase 2 and Phase 3)
• Writing dictated captions
• For most to independently write captions
• For most to begin to write dictated sentences, using their CEW words alongside taught phonemes.

Reading and Phonics

We will be looking at books linked to our interests and overarching theme - this term which is relationships and Fairy Tales. During term 5 we will be enjoying the books: 'Little Red Riding Hood, The Three little pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and There is No Dragon in this Story'. Through whole class book talk sessions we focus on listening to stories, asking and answering questions, and orally rehearsing to develop our vocabulary. 

We also use a whole school approach called The Write Stuff to help us with developing our vocabulary and sentence writing. We are continuing this approach during Term 5, focusing on some of the books above to do this.

We will continue to consolidate Phase 2 and 3 phonemes this term, as well as beginning to think about Phase 4 which is being able to read / write CVCC words (damp, lost, bend, track), alongside learning and spelling Phase 4 CEW which lots of your children are already brilliant at! Attached down the side under 'resources for learning at home' you'll find the overview of Phase 2-5 CEW.

We have daily phonic sessions as a whole class. Please continue to write in your child's Reading Record book and ensure it is in your child's book bag each day, so we can see the reading you and your child have done at home.

You have now received the 'rainbow writing challenge' booklets. Your child may complete either just the words for each rainbow colour, or the sentences. Please complete and post on tapestry, or put in the communication box/ their book bags by Friday the 28th of April. Your child will then receive their certificate :-) 

Supporting reading at home... 

• Your child will be able to borrow 1 school Library book which will be changed on Monday's 
• Your child will receive a ‘Wheatfield Phonics’ booklet
• Your child will receive 1 phonic book each week (on a Friday)
  We will continue to work towards achieving 'reads' on our whole school ‘Catch the Reading Bug’ challenge. For every 50 reads your child will get to choose a brand new book to keep from Mr Winterburn!

Maths

In Term 5 we will be covering the objectives of:

• Consolidating and mastery of all objectives covered with a focus on counting, composition, comparing and ordering
• Counting to 20 and beyond.
• Building numbers and looking at patterns beyond 10
• Addition and subtraction within 10
• Doubling to 10
• Sharing and grouping
• Odd and Even numbers

We teach maths through class inputs, adult led groups and reinforcing the objective and learning in our provision.

Your child will have received their Gold rings 1 booklet, which will have our termly objectives in. In this booklet, we have written suggested games and activities to support these objectives at home.

Each term your child will receive a new maths planet booklet which includes the objectives we are teaching in class. To earn a certificate, please upload photos/videos to Tapestry of your child engaging with the suggested activities in the booklet. If you have any difficulty with this please come and see us so that we can support you. The booklets can be kept at home and do not need to be returned to school.

Bronze 1 (Term 1 booklet) = Certificate will be awarded at the end of term 
(Thank you for supporting your children at home with their learning, we were delighted with the amount of children who achieved their Bronze Rings 1 certificate!) 

Bronze 2 (Term 2 booklet) = Bronze Badge will be awarded at the end of the term

(Thank you for the support with this level - it was great to see so many children receiving their badges!!)

Silver 1 (Term 3 booklet) = Certificate will be awarded at the end of term

(Thank you for your support with this level, it was so wonderful to see so many happy children with their certificates!)

Silver 2 (Term 4 booklet) = Silver Badge will be awarded at the end of term

(Thank you for your support with this level, it was so lovely to see so many proud children with their second badges!)

Gold 1 (Term 5 booklet) = Certificate will be awarded at the end of term

Term 5 Wider Curriculum

 Throughout our entire curriculum for EYFS, we always centre the needs of the children as well as their interests as the focus of our learning for our wider curriculum.

At Wheatfield Primary School we are very fortunate to have such fantastic outdoor spaces including our amazing onsite forest ‘The Wild Wood’. Each week your child will take part in one whole class and one small group Wild Wood session. We think about and explore our four seasons and use our school grounds in all weathers, so it is essential your child has a waterproof coat and wellies in school every day. This term we will also create:

• Stick houses for the three little pigs
• Wind streamers
• Signs of Spring hunt
• Colour checklist - what things can we find in specific shades of green/brown/red/orange/pink?
• Making maps of the woods for the fairies - where is our fairy door?

We will also be exploring through provision…

• Making maps - little red's journey and treasure maps
• Castles - who lived in them? What do they look like? Can we make/draw one?
• Making a new house for the pigs - what materials would work best? We will then test out these houses against the big bad wolf (hair dryer!!)
• Special places for different religions and what these look like.
• The kings coronation - what does this mean? Why do people celebrate this occasion?

During Term 5 the children will be continuing to develop their confidence in self-selecting by using the classroom resources. This may include junk modelling and using craft materials by using their imaginations to create, design and make creations. The children will be focusing on their skill of drawing - exploring the artist Picasso.

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We also learn many rhymes and songs from Poetry Basket Summer Booklet, as well as enjoying the many songs on the BBC Teach website. (Nursery Rhymes and Songs - A to Z - BBC Teach)