EYFS

Learning Link: People Who Help Us

Welcome to Reception!

We are so excited about getting to know our new St Salvatore and St Henry classes and we know that we have a fantastic year ahead of us.

The first thing that we will be doing is making lots of new friends, learning everyone’s names, and finding out about each other and our school.

We are also going to be learning about the people who help us in our community. Not only those we turn to in emergencies, like doctors, nurses and firefighters, but also those who help to keep everything running in our daily lives. We are looking forward to hearing which jobs you would like to find out about and are hoping that we will have some visitors to come in and tell us about their roles.

Just before the Christmas holidays we will have a special S=P+A+C+E Day to celebrate and reflect on all the learning that we have done during our first term together at St Thomas’.

St. Salvatore:

Mrs Sumsion 

St Henry:

Mon – Tues: Mrs Morgan

Weds – Fri: Mrs Hills

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group Reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 19^th October

Gentle Reminder – Half Term Break

Just to remind you that we break up on Thursday 22^nd October at the normal time of 3.10pm and return to school on Tuesday 3^rd November.

Recycling

Please can we ask you to bring in small, recycled boxes and packaging for our learning this week.

Prayer and Liturgy Bag

We are continuing share the Prayer and Liturgy bag once again. When it is your turn for you and your family to use the class prayer and liturgy bag. We invite you to write a prayer, reflection, drawing or a photo to show how you, as a family, have used the prayer resources tonight. We conduct liturgy in school using the four-part structure of: Gather, Listen, Respond and Go Forth. In the information guide you will find some ideas of how you could use the prayer and liturgy bag at home, but these are only suggestions and can be used how you wish. If you received this on a Monday, please return it on Thursday. If you received it on Thursday, then please return it on Monday.

Parent Consultation Evenings

If you have an appointment booked for Monday 19th October (online) details will be emailed to you so keep an eye out as it will have the instructions needed for your appointment. If not, we look forward to seeing you in person on Wednesday 21^st October (face to face) on the second evening. Access to the building can be found via the side of the school building via the Year 1 door.

Link to Hope Shoebox Appeal

Thank you for all your wonderful donations for the Link to Hope Shoe Box Appeal.

Home Learning

Phonics

We will be continuing to assess the children’s knowledge this week and checking for gaps in learning. Following this your child will be bringing home a sheet highlighting the sounds and Tricky Words they need to practice over the holiday. We will not be sending reading books over the holiday so please do access reading via the Collins eBooks website. Following these assessments, we will be reassigning reading books and updating the eBook allocations.

Phonics

As there are no new sounds this week, please take the opportunity to revise the sounds and Tricky Words already taught.

Sounds: s, a, t, p, I, m, n, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f and l

Tricky words: is I the

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the week: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

RE

Topic: Creation and Covenant 6: I know we should look after God’s world

We will be listening to the Creation story but focusing particularly on the part that shows Adam and Eve ‘in charge’ of the plants and animals and helpers to God – caring for our beautiful world. We will be talking about how we all should help look after our world and introducing the word ‘Stewardship’ and that this is a very important job.

Personal, social, emotional development

We will be talking about ways to keep safe during our half-term holiday.

Literacy and Phonics

We will be revisiting the following new sounds: s, a, t, p, I, m, n, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f and l

Tricky words: is the I

Communication and language

We will join in with the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, acting out key events and characters. We will be developing our understanding of positional and prepositional language, such as in, on, under, behind, next to, and between, as we retell and explore the story.

Mathematics

Week 6: Spatial Reasoning unit / Focus 1 - Moving through space.

Through the context of a journey story, we will be exploring spaces in and around the setting as the adults model language and use gestures to support the development of spatial vocabulary and understanding. We will develop an increased awareness of how objects, including themselves, relate to each other, and will practise navigating ourselves through space. An important aspect of this learning is perspective taking – looking at things from different angles and viewpoints.

Key language

Key language to support this area of learning includes:

• in, on, under, up, down, besides, next to, between, in front of, behind

Understanding the World

We will be learning about how reusing things can help us protect and care for our planet.

Expressive arts and design

We will be sorting materials for recycling and using old things to make new creations.

Music

Rhyme Time Learning

We will begin to learn our songs for The Nativity. We will learn a new music listening game.

Physical Development (in PE)

Introduction to PE Unit 1

Introduction to PE Unit 2

Finding space, freezing on command, using and sharing equipment and working individually and in partners/groups. Take part in ‘adventure and fantasy’ themed activities which will develop fundamental movement skills such as running, jumping, skipping.

Ball skills

Roll and throw with some accuracy towards a target. Throw underarm. Beginning to catch with two hands.

Vocabulary