A message from your teachers
Welcome back Reception to the new half term. We hope that you had a lovely half term holiday and are looking forward to seeing you all back in school on Monday 19th February. This half term is a short one yet we have lots of great activities planned including our 'Inspire' session, a superhero dress-up day and our traditional Easter bonnet parade.
Our daily routine
As the children move through their Reception year, our daily routine and timetable changes to meet their needs.
This half term we will continue with our 'balance bike' sessions on a Monday morning. Coaching staff will be taking the children down to the hall to work on their skills every Monday morning. When they are ready, they will progress towards a 2 wheeler pedal bike. This session will be in addition to their normal Friday PE session slot.
This half term, we will continue to offer lots of opportunities for indoor and outdoor play and exploration. We will continue to complete daily adult directed activities and will work towards completing these as part of a small group.
We will continue to have daily phonics, handwriting and maths carpet sessions and will continue to take part in dough disco and story time.
Spring 2 - Can I be a superhero?
This half term our topic sessions will be linked to Superheroes. We will start the topic by reading fictional superhero stories such as Supertato and Superworm. We will be designing and making superhero masks and will be setting up our own superhero headquarters in our outdoor role play shed. We will be thinking about real-life superheroes too, beginning with the superheroes in our own families. To finish our topic, we will be thinking about people who help us everyday. Taking inspiration from all these different superheroes, we will be having our own dress-up day, where the children can come to school dressed as a superhero of their choice.
There is such a lot to do and learn this half term; we can not wait to get started. Full details of our Spring 2 curriculum can be found below. If you have any questions, please speak to one of the team and we will do our best to help. Please check the class newsletter (sent via ParentMail each Friday) and the class page on class dojo for further information about our learning in class each week. Take care everyone.
Mrs Darby, Mrs Price and Mrs Raxton.