Mrs Gohil - Class Teacher/EYFS Lead

Miss Ransom - Class Teacher/EYFS Lead

Miss Roberts - Class Teacher

Mrs Cotterill - Class Teacher

Miss Parton 

Teaching Assistant 

Miss Aishah Akhtar

Early Years Apprentice

Mr Ciaran Turnbull

Early Years Apprentice

Mrs Brazier

Teaching Assistant

Miss Ellie Flood

Early Years Apprentice

Welcome to our Reception year group page. The children have settled well into the new school year.

Our Reception team includes:

Teachers: Mrs Gohil, Miss Ransom, Miss Roberts and Mrs Cotterill.

Teaching Assistants: Miss Parton, Mrs Fisher and Mrs Brazier.

Early Years Apprentices: Miss Akhtar, Mr Turnbull, Miss Flood.

The Reception classes are based in the Cadbury building. Your children will regularly visit both the Elizabeth and George buildings for lunch, assemblies and library time.

Our PE lesson will be on Wednesday. We will be asking the children to come into school wearing their school PE kits every Wednesday.

Our allocated library session will be every Friday; this is an opportunity for your child to choose a book they would like to read at home and perhaps share with you. We do have our own little library in Cadbury which the children access daily.

As the weather starts to get cold and wet, please provide your child with wellington boots as we go outside in all weather conditions. Please label their boots.

Please send your child with a filled water bottle. Please label this clearly and bring it to school everyday.

Please label all items of school uniform, particularly cardigans and jumpers.

Contact Details:

RR: [email protected] 

RGR: [email protected] & [email protected] 

RC: [email protected] 

VISITS AND VISITORS

Our first topic is ‘People’.

As part of our topic, we will be visiting the local area. This may include Bournville park and the local shops. This will be to support the new EYFS curriculum area of Understanding the World.

Curriculum Overview

The first few weeks of the Autumn term will be spent getting to know your child and carrying out assessments within the areas of learning. We will also be spending time supporting your child to develop friendships and work within a larger group.

In Autumn, our topic is People. In this topic we will be focusing on:

Me and my family
My school
People who help us
People around the world

Maths

Our focus this term will be:

Number recognition
Number formation
Counting accurately
Quantities (more/fewer)

English

Phonics will be taught daily. Your child will be learning to recognise their name, write it using the correct letter formation and use correct pencil grip in their preferred hand.

Forest School

Each half term a class will attend Forest school on Fridays. 

RR will attend Forest school on 22nd, 29th September, 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th October. 

RGR will attend Forest school on 10th, 17th, 24th November, 1st, 8th and 15th December.

Spring Term (S1) - RC January 12th, 19th, 26th  February  2nd, 9th

Online learning/homework

Once the children have settled, phonics homework will be sent out on a weekly basis. Maths homework will be sent out from Autumn 2.

A reading practise book will be sent home weekly for your child to read to you. Your child will also bring home a reading diary. This is for you to enter comments to share with your child’s class teacher about how your child has read at home. 

We currently change reading books on a Tuesday, though due to timetabling, this may occasionally take place on another day. If so, we will email the new day out to you. 

Stay and Learn

Our Stay and Learn session for Spring term is Wednesday 31st January 2024 2-3pm. An email was sent out with details on December 20th December 2023. 

Forest School

RC will be having Forest School every Friday from 12th January until 9th February.

VISITS AND VISITORS

Our Spring topic is ‘Water’.  We will be walking to our local park to take a look at the brook and the Yachting pool and the surrounding habitats. This is to support the children’s understanding of both natural and man-made water environments.

Understanding the World, Communication and Language

In Spring, our topic is Water. In this topic we will be focusing on:

What is water?

Know that water is vital to all living things and without it there would be no plants or animals.

Know that water can be used to drink, wash, swim, clean, travel, cook, grow and live.

Know that we get our water from taps which feed water from lakes, reservoirs and rivers following a treatment process

Know that not everybody gets water from a tap.

Know that rain is a form of water and falls from the sky in droplets which can cause puddles to develop on the ground

Know that water exists in three forms: liquid (water), solid (ice) and gas (water vapour).

On water

Know that water is a habitat.

Know that some animals live near water.

Know that these animals live in the United Kingdom near to rivers, lakes and ponds Know that these animals use the water to feed, reproduce and build their homes

Know that our local area has natural and man-made water sources: the brook, yachting pool.

Know that some things float on water and some things sink Know that some materials are waterproof Know that boats travel on water.

Know that there are many different types of boats and their uses.

The Sea

Know that the sea is a body of water.

Know the names of the 5 oceans around the world; Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean

Know that the sea is salty – identify similarities and differences with other bodies

of water

Know the geographical terms for parts of the seaside; coast, beach, cliff, sea, promenade

Know how to stay safe at the seaside

Know that there are many creatures that live in the sea.

Know the names of some animals that live in British seas

Some key texts that we will be reading and using as part of our learning include:

Lila and the Secret of Rain by David Conway

Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray and Jerry Parsons

Puffin Peter by Petr Horacek

Splash, Anna Hibiscus! by Atinuke and Lauren Tobia

The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

Tiddler by Julia Donaldson

Penguin by Polly Dunbar

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Gingerbread man

Spring 2

Class RR

Dates: 

February 23rd

March 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd.

Summer 1

Class: RC

Dates: 

April 12th, 19th, 26th

May: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th

Summer 2

Class: RGR

Dates: 

June 7th, 14th and 21st.

July 12th