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 Eagle

Monday & alternate Tuesday - Mrs Green

alternate Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - Mrs Buckley

Support Staff: Mrs Eagle

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

Many parents often ask - what can we do to help our child at home? Here are some suggestions of things that you can do, play and talk about together at home to support your child in meeting the Early Learning Goals by the end of F2/Reception.

ELGs Activities to Try at Home.pdf

Spring 1

Our theme this half term is 'Tell me a story'.

Our core texts are Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood. 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 days of the week, sequencing, and mastery of numbers 9 and 10.

Understanding the World

The Foundations Of:

RE – This half term we are using NATRE - National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, to learn about Easter. Our key question is “Why do some Christians put a cross in their Easter gardens?” In this unit, pupils find out about the key events from Palm Sunday until Easter Day in the Christian Salvation story.

History– What were homes like in the past? We will be continuing our learning about buildings and materials, and make comparisons with homes from The Stone Age. We will also be thinking about what their life would have been like compared to our own.

Geography- Finningley Vs Doncaster. We will be using what we know about our local area to learn about features of the city centre and make comparisons.

Science- Is all of a plant green? We will be learning about Spring and the seasons, making observations on the changes around us. We will be observing plants as they grow and change.

Computing- Computing systems and networks: Exploring hardware. We will be tinkering and exploring with different computer hardware and learning to operate a camera.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The Foundations Of:

PSHE – Living in the wider world: Online Safety. We will be learning about using digital technology safely. We will be learning to recognise the difference between ‘plugged and unplugged.

Expressive Arts and Design

The Foundations Of:

Music- Charanga: Number Time. In this unit, we will sing two songs, Hickory, Dickory, Dock and Ten Green Bottles. The children will find it easier to learn to sing songs if they hear each melody shape and can draw it with their finger in the air. This helps them know when their voice needs to go up or down.

Design & Technology- Structures: Chairs for Three Bears. Children will investigate and evaluate a range of different chairs, thinking about the materials and purpose of each product. They will explore making fixed joints through junk modelling, using trial and error to develop their understanding of structures.

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 – Ball Skills: In this unit children will develop their ball skills through the topic of 'weather'. Children will develop fundamental ball skills such as throwing and catching, rolling a ball, using targets, dribbling with feet, kicking a ball, bouncing and catching a ball. Children will be able to develop their fine and gross motor skills though a range of game play with balls. Children will work independently and with a partner and will develop decision making and using simple tactics.

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 Thursday. 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 Thursday.

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.