St Oswald'sC of E AcademyChurch, School, Community

Welcome toSt Oswald'sC of E AcademyChurch, School, Community

F2 - Reception

Welcome to F2

Class Teachers / Key Worker: Mrs Buckley & Mrs Pace

Monday & alternate Tuesday - Mrs Pace

alternate Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - Mrs Buckley

Support Staff: Mrs Wareing and Mrs Green (am)

Mrs Hooley-Rice (pm)

Start Time: 08:55am Pick-Up Time: 3:30pm

Summer 1

Our theme this half term is 'On the farm'.

Our core texts are Farmer Duck and The Little Red Hen. We will be learning about story structure, settings and events, and learning lots of rich story vocabulary.

Maths

We follow maths mastery approach. This half term, we will be focusing on 3D shapes, the composition of numbers up to 20, and adding and taking away.

Understanding the World

The Foundations Of:

RE – This half term we are using Discovery RE to look at a range of stories from different religions. Our key question is “What can we learn from stories?”

History– What were jobs like in the past? We will using our knowledge of traditional tales to look at some of the occupations and how they have changed over time.

Geography- What is a farm? We will be starting to look at what space is needed and how it is used to care for animals.

Science- Who are my parents? We will be learning to name and identify the adult and young of the same animal. We will be observing the differences and similarities between the adult and its young.

Computing- Programming: Bee-bots. We will be learning how to give and follow simple directional instructions, and experimenting with coding by using programmable toys.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The Foundations Of:

PSHE – Health and Well-being: Physical Health. We will be learning about our bodies, and will be able to show some understanding of good practices regarding exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene and oral health can contribute to good health.

My Happy Mind - Engage: Engage is focussed on teaching children the following:

What goal setting is.
Why goals are important.
How to review our goals.

Expressive Arts and Design

The Foundations Of:

Music- Charanga: Our World

Art & Design - Weaving

We will also be continuing our learning about the primary colours and how to effectively mix powder paints to create new colours, and different shades of colours.

Physical Development

PE - Our PE lesson will take place every Monday, children should come to school every Monday wearing their PE kit.

We will also be using our outdoor area to develop our gross motor skills. The children love to practice their running, moving, climbing and throwing skills and have access to our outdoor area every day to practice these. Children should come dressed appropriately to play outside every day in all weathers.

Key Information

F2 PE day is on a Monday. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit and will stay in their PE kit all day. School uniform is not required on a Monday.

Our school PE kit is: black or blue shorts, white t-shirt (no logos please), trainers and a tracksuit for colder months (again, no logos please).

Reading in School

In school, we teach reading daily using Read Write Inc (RWI). More information regarding this can be found on the RWI school website page or on the Ruth Miskin website copied below.

Phonics - Read Write Inc

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parentsandcarers/

Reading at Home

Reading books will be changed every Monday unless the children have not read the book.
Children should be encouraged to read their book at least 3 times a week and this should be recorded in their reading record.
The children will bring home a RWI book and a book of their choice for reading for pleasure.
Please find attached below a list of reading questions you can ask your child to promote discussions about what they are reading. This will help to improve their fluency, recall, retrieval and inference skills.

Reading Questions for Parents

EYFS Reading Questions.docx

Recommended Books To Share EYFS

EYFS Recommended Reading List.pub

Class Dojo

We use Class Dojo to share information about what is happening at school. We add photos and information weekly to our class page so you can find out more about what we have been busy learning! You can also upload photos from home for us to use in our 'Show and Share' sessions.