Wheatfield Primary School

About Reception:

In Reception our teachers are Mrs Midlane (Class RM) and Miss Bendall (Class RB). Our teaching assistants are Mrs Goldstone and Mrs Binding.

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 2 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 2 is ‘’Celebrating differences!”

We will be focusing on within this theme…

• • What am I good at?
  • I'm special, it's me!
  • Families
  • Homes
  • Making friends
  • Standing up for yourself

Each day, when children demonstrate going 'above and beyond' by representing our school values, they can be 'In the Spotlight' on our class display. If they reach this, they will be given a special sticker. When they come home with this sticker, make sure to ask them why. 

Writing

During Term 2 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 phonemes as we learn them. We will be developing our mark making skills through 'Drawing Club' which will incorporate new vocabulary, mark making and mathematical skills. 

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
• Learn to recognise and write our own name
• Begin to write captions, labels and simple words.

Reading and Phonics

We will be looking at books linked to our PSED overarching 'big questions'. We will also be enjoying our 'Fab 5' books. Each term we have five books that we read each week. On Monday we will read The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Tuesday is Octopus Shocktopus, Wednesday is Dog Gone, Thursday is Meet the Oceans and every Friday we will read The Very Busy Spider. We will use these books to support our Drawing Club sessions too! 

Through whole class book talk sessions, we focus on listening to stories, asking and answering questions and orally rehearsing to develop our vocabulary.

We will have daily phonic sessions as a whole class. We will begin by practising consolidating all our learning from phase 2, including oral blending and quickly move on to learning our Phase 3 phonemes and common exception words. Each week we will update you through Tapestry about which phonemes we are learning that week and ways you can support at home. 

Once children are secure in oral blending and start to read words, we will send them home with a phonetically decodable reading book which gets changed once a week. Please 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. Every day they read at home, it counts towards a read in our whole school 'Reading Bug' challenge. When they reach a multiple of 50 reads, they will go to see Mrs Carver and choose their own book that they can keep at home.

Children will choose a book from the school library during our PPA sessions on a Thursday. When they return their book the following week, they can swap it for a new one. This is a book for you to share with your child together, not one you should except them to be able to read on their own.

Your child will come home with a 'Wheatfield Phonics' booklet and a word list to practise their orally blending and reading words (when we have started teaching phonemes).

Supporting reading at home... 

• Your child will be able to borrow 1 school Library book which will be changed on Thursday's 
• Your child will receive a ‘Wheatfield Phonics’ booklet
• Your child will receive 1 phonic book each week
  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 Mrs Carver!

Maths

In Term 1 we will be covering the objectives of:

• Learn to recognise, count and subitise (recognise and amount without counting) numbers 4, 5 and 6.
• Sequencing events
• The properties of rectangles and squares
  

  Complex repeating patterns

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

Your child will have received their Bronze 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 

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

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

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

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

Gold 2 (Term 6 booklet) = Certificate and badge will be awarded at the end of term  

Term 2 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’. We will regularly be learning in the woods 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. 

We will also be exploring…

• Our 5 senses
• Seasonal changes and the weather
• Day and night
• Firework safety and how fireworks are used in different celebrations.
• The celebrations of Diwali and Christmas. 

During Term 2 the children will develop their confidence in self-selecting by using the classroom resources. We will be exploring the work of William Morris and printing to create our own wrapping paper.                                            

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)