Reception class - Foundation stage 2 2021-22
ARCHIVED WORK
Early Years Intent, Implementation and Impact Curriculum Mapping
Reception Long term plan 2021-22
World Book Day 2022 - an initiative we have been keen to get back to. We had an amazing array of costumes and books to share. A big thank you to our supportive families which allowed this to happen. We also managed to play cricket with Cricket Chris while dressed in our costumes.
February 2022 - a visit to Zoe's farm. We were invited to visit Zoe's farm to see the lambs. It has been such a long time since we were able to enjoy a visit away from the school. It was lovely to walk down to the farm. Kathryn, Dot and John made us so welcome. We learnt all about the lambs (particularly what the numbers meant), we got to cuddle some and feed others - thank you so much for a wonderful visit.
Spring term 2022 - another jam packed half term. We started off the year by making our calendars using a bath sponge - thanks Mrs Hemingway for planning and teaching that - it was a lot of fun and so effective. It tied in nicely to our topics too.Our topic was Polar animals as well as the season of Winter. We enjoyed many stories and non fiction texts along with some festive activities (involving scissors skills and baking). We also celebrated Chinese New Year with again stories and non fiction texts - we compared the celebrations with our recently celebrated Christmas. We completed our phase 3 aspect of our phonics through trialling the Twinkl recently validated Phonics programme. In maths we secured our ability to subitise as well as began learning about the composition of numbers up to 10 - which is very tricky indeed. We started our new PSHE curriculum Jigsaw - this comes with two new characters in class Jigsaw Cat and Jigsaw Jenie. This half term's focus was striving for our hopes and dreams - we talked about jobs we may do when we are older and how we had to work hard and not give up to reach our goals. We were well and truly ready for our half term break when it arrived.
The second half of our Autumn term did not get any less busy than the first half. Our P.E. sessions saw us learning some footie skills from Tom, from Chris Wright services. We finished our phase 2 phonics and we are making super progress on our pathway to reading and writing. We learnt all about Hedgehogs- small nocturnal mammals, who have babies we call hoglets. We made poppy biscuits to remember people who had died during wars and in doing so helped keep us safe. Children in Need was celebrated by us coming to school in our pyjamas. In Art we created pictures in the style of Kandinsky.
We compared the festival of Bonfire Night to that of Divali. Our Christmas celebrations were many- our nativity was shown through social distancing over a couple of days. We made decorations for the village Christmas tree as well as our own trees at home. Mrs Benson made us some yummy food for our Christmas dinner and our Christmas parties - thank you Mrs Benson.
we look forward to our spring term but first we are going to enjoy our Christmas break with our friends and family.
A visit from Matt Le Voi (Izzy’s daddy) from Lakeland Mountain Guides. To support our Christian Value Trust Matt came to talk to the children about his work as a mountain leader. He explained perfectly how much Trust is involved on his part, his clients and in all the gear and equipment he uses. The talk was pitched perfectly and was much enjoyed by all of class 1 and 2 and their teachers - thank you so very much.
A busy first half of the Autumn term 2021
Wow where has the first half term of the year gone? One day I was welcoming my new class and now I am looking at them and thinking how much they have settled and how much they have achieved. They are a super lot of children and I am enjoying every minute with them. Here is a little snap shot of what we have been up to.
What we got up to in the Summer term 2021 - please look on the school video pages for Sports Day and fun at the park and other summer clips.
After some of lockdown three restrictions were lifted,which allowed us to return to school, we had four weeks in school before the Easter break. We crammed a lot into those four weeks - we spent a lot of time re-establishing routines and expectations and enjoyed being back together - one of our friends left to join a new school but we were also joined by another friend, Enya, who made our band of eight compete. We enjoyed cricket with Cricket Chris, raised our chicks (a much enjoyed annual activity at this time of year), developed our knowledge of the Easter story through crafts and food technology. We shared lots of stories and competed some consolidation of maths concepts (we enjoyed a week on the census - held a classroom count as well as completing a small world ‘farm’ and ‘doll’s house’ census.
we hope you enjoy looking at some of the photographs and videos below. Bring on that summer term - after we have re charged our batteries of course !
Easter Egg hunt exercises
Circular arms
Standing on one leg
Easter celebrations
