Welcome to Reception at Oldswinford C of E Primary

Where we ‘Believe, achieve and shine brighter together.’

The Reception team:

Mrs Preece (FSLion) and Miss Thomas (FSCrystal) with Mrs Hardy and Miss Carton.

Summer 1- Our topic is...

We will be looking at our locality- Oldswinford, Stourbridge, England and the UK and comparing them with places further away.

In Phonics, will we be consolidating sounds:- ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo and learning new sounds-  ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.

In Maths we are learning:

• Building numbers beyond 10
• Counting patterns beyond 10
• Spatial reasoning- match, rotate and manipulate
• Doubling
• Sharing and grouping
• Even and Odd
• Spatial reasoning- Compose and decompose

We will also be continuing with Mastery Number sessions which is a program to help children develop a good number sense.

 In RE our key question is  'What stories did Jesus tell?'

Look at our wonderful Travel agents role play!

Foundation Stage 2022

At Oldswinford C.E. Primary school we believe that the children’s time in Foundation Stage, the Reception class, is one of the most important times in their school life. This lays the foundation for their learning and development for the rest of their education. We work hard to nurture and care for the children and seek to make school an enjoyable and exciting place to be. Children will be able to free-flow through the two rooms and ‘middle area’ throughout most of the day with children from both classes so they can make great friendships.

Curriculum

There are seven main areas of learning which are split into prime areas of :

• Communication and language development
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development

Then we have ;

• Literacy
• Maths
• Understanding the world
• Expressive Arts and design

Each area of learning is implemented through planned, purposeful play. This takes place through a mixture of adult led and child initiated activities. Play is essential to help children relate to others, build their confidence, explore their surroundings, and think critically.

The progress the children make is assessed by 17 Early learning Goals.

What to expect in Reception

We have daily maths and phonics sessions as well as talk for writing and kinetic letters most days. We hope to put on a workshop in the Autumn term to show some of what we do.

The children have two P.E. sessions each week, so please make sure the children have had their earrings removed on those days. These will be on a Tuesday and Thursday. We shall not be beginning P.E. straight away so you have plenty time to sort a P.E. kit!

All children learn at different rates so we differentiate our experiences so all can learn effectively. Parents/Carers will be sent a dojo link so they can see weekly updates and photos of what the children are currently learning and experiencing. Always helpful when a child replies ‘we just played’, to a question about their day!

Please make sure a water bottle is sent into school each day.

Homework:

We do not set specific homework but there are ways you can support your child’s learning at home which we would always encourage.

• Daily reading. We cannot emphasise the importance of daily reading enough. Don’t forget you can also use the online platform ‘Rising Stars’ to read with your child too.
• Counting- children often need a little practice to count accurately moving their finger and saying the number at the same time can be challenging.
• Talking about concepts such as size and weight.
• Writing their name (not all in capital letters!)- we will be happy to support with letter formation if you wish.
• Writing a sentence about a picture they have drawn or labelling it.

The Rising Stars reading platform.

This is an online account where you can access books uploaded by the class teacher, these books will be appropriate to your child's book band. We still encourage reading the same book frequently but you can mix it up with one of these too. You can also write these in the reading diary and they will count to climbing up the rainbow or up to the moon! Please don't rush through them, it isn't a race! There are only a certain number of books per band. If you happen to run out just let us know and we will try and upload some more as soon as possible. 

Here is the website https://my.risingstars-uk.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Your child's logon is in the following format:

lastname followed by first initial

password is your child's first name.

Centre ID: 291449

For example if your child is Joe Bloggs

Username: bloggsj

Password: joe 

Centre ID: 291449
 

Please note some children may have a number in their username due to name similarities. We have messaged you directly if this is the case.