A message from your teachers
Spring 2
We hope that you have all had a super half term holiday and have had chance to have a rest and have some fun! We are looking forward to hearing all about your adventures.
Our daily routine
As the children move through their Reception year, our daily routine and timetable changes to meet their needs.
During Spring 2, the children will continue to have lots of opportunities for indoor and outdoor play and exploration.
We will continue to have daily carpet times for topic/ English, phonics and maths as well as regular adult directed activities linked to this learning.
The children will continue to take part in 'drawing club' each week and we will be encouraging all children to 'have a go' at writing letters, words and captions too.
The children have been enjoying their PE lessons and their music and R.E. sessions and we will continue to do these this half term. Please see the overview below for details of what we will be learning.
We will be continuing our handwriting sessions this half term using the kinetic letters program. Children will be learning how to pick up and hold their pencil using a tri-pod grip and will begin to learn how to form some of the letters in the air, in the sand tray and on the white board too.
We are very excited to be continuing with our 'balance bike' sessions this half term too. The children have loved these sessions so far and are making progress towards riding a 2 wheeled bike.
We will be starting our 'Wonder Wood' sessions this half term - Reception's take on natural learning/ forest school activities in our wider outdoor area. The children have already discussed some of the things they would like to do in these sessions and we can't wait to get out under the trees.
Spring 2 theme - Can I be a superhero?
This half term we will be focussing on superheroes. We will begin by sharing stories about fictional super heroes and will then learn about the important role of real-life superheroes such as firefighters and doctors and nurses.
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. We will keep this updated with lots of photos of the things we are doing in class and reminders about things to come.
Take care everyone.
Mrs Darby, Mrs Price, Mrs Raxton and Ms Coley