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 Roxby

Monday & alternate Tuesday - Mrs Roxby (HLTA)

alternate Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - Mrs Buckley

Support Staff: Mrs Wallace and Mrs Green (am)

Mrs Eagle (pm)

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

Thank you to all who attended our 'Welcome to F2: Parent Meeting'. Please see below for the slides shared in the meeting.

Welcome Meeting F2 2025 Parent Copy.pdf

Autumn 1

Our theme this half term is

'Enchanted Woodland'.

Our core texts are Owl Babies and The Gruffalo. 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 completing baseline assessments, matching sorting and comparing early numbers and exploring measure and pattern.

These are the key facts taught throughout Autumn 1 to practise with your child at home:

Understanding the World

The Foundations Of:

RE – This half term we are using NATRE - National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, to look at creation and prayer. Our key question is “Why is the word God so important to Christians?”

History– We are using what we know about families and ourselves to look at change around us – how do people grow and change?

Geography- We are learning about our school and our school community and using maps to look at where our classroom is in our school, and where our school is in the village.

Science- We will be learning all about our body, finding out about ourselves and what we are made of.

Computing- We will be learning about technology around us and making links with Science to answer these questions – what makes it move? And, how does my toy work?

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The Foundations Of:

PSHE – Living in the Wider World: Communities: We will be making links with our world, finding out about people who help us, and learning more about their roles in our community.

My Happy Mind – Meet Your Brain:

Meet Your Brain is focussed on teaching children the following:

Our brain helps us with lots of different jobs
We need to look after our brains for us to be our best!
When we learn something new our brain remembers it for next time.

Expressive Arts and Design

The Foundations Of:

Music- Charanga- Chant to the animals! The children will be learning to understand that there are different ways to use our voice in music and that chants use the spoken voice rhythmically and musically.

Art & Design – Powder Paint + Primary Colours

We will be learning about the abstract artist and painter Piet Mondrian, looking at his use of colour and space, and painting our own pieces in a similar style

Physical Development

PE - Our PE lesson will take place every Wednesday, children should come to school every Wednesday 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 Wednesday. 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 Wednesday

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.