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 The Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks and The Three Bears. 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 mass and capacity and mastery of numbers up to 8.

Understanding the World

The Foundations Of:

RE – This half term we are using NATRE - National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, to focus on Christianity, Hindu Dharma and Islam. Our key question is “Being special; Where do we belong?”

History– What were homes like in the past? We will be looking at changes over time, learning about buildings and materials, and making comparisons with homes in The Stone Age.

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- What is the weather like today? We will be learning about Winter and the seasons, making observations on the changes around us.

Computing- Programming- learning to follow and give instructions, debug and make predictions

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The Foundations Of:

PSHE - Relationships: Keeping friendships healthy. We will be continuing our learning about what makes a good friend, and learning why healthy boundaries are important.

Expressive Arts and Design

The Foundations Of:

Music- Charanga: Lilting Lullaby. We will be learning the song ‘Baby Elephant’ to help us to learn how to pitch match with accuracy when singing; and to feel the lilt of a 2–3 pattern of beats in music with five beats.

Art- Drawing: Zentagles: Rick Roberts & Maria Thomas

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

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.