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 – mrssumsion@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St Henry:

Mon – Tues: Mrs Morgan– mrsmorgan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Weds – Fri: Mrs Hills- mrshills@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Year Group Reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 20^th October

Parent Consultation Evenings

If you have an appointment booked for Monday 20th October, we look forward to seeing you in person.

Thank you for all your wonderful donations for the Link to Hope Shoe Box Appeal. On Friday 25th October we will have a non-uniform day - raising the postage funds for the shoeboxes. Please make a donation on Scopay.

Home Learning

Due to assessment week and half term we will not be sending home a reading book. Please enjoy playing blending games with the flashcards.

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.

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

Personal, social, emotional development

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 be joining in with retelling Goldilocks and acting it out

Mathematics

Rediscover

We will be rediscovering the topics we have learnt so far this term, including subitising, comparing, counting, cardinality, ordinality and composition.

Understanding the World

During Digital Citizenship week, we will be talking about what balance means in terms of balancing screen time with outdoor play and other activities.

Expressive arts and design

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

Music

To listen and respond to music. To learn a song. To keep the beat in a song. To play an instrument to accompany a song.

Can you find the pulse? Can you do this action on the beat? Can you play your instrument on the beat? Can you create a sound for the ‘tick-tock’ rhythm?

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

Additional resource