Welcome to Reception
Little Owl Class
Welcome to Reception's class page!
Our teacher is Miss Webb.
Our teaching assistant is Miss Burnett.
Autumn Term 1
Topic
Our topic for the first half of Autumn term is 'What Makes Me Unique?'. We will do lots of exciting activities surrounding this topic that cover each area of learning and development in the EYFS curriculum.
Phonics
Here at Bury we follow the Sounds Write phonics programme. We teach 30 minute daily sessions and the children will start to bring home a phonics reading book for them to read to you later in the term. Please try to listen to your child read to you every day, even if it is just a page or two.
Literacy
In Literacy, our key text for this half term will be 'The Colour Monster'. We will use props and role play to help us retell the story and will specifically think about each emotion.
The children will bring home a school library book for you to share with them at home. The children have a yellow reading record where their reading should be logged everyday. This can be logged with a comment or just a signature. Dojos will be rewarded for children who read at home on five separate occasions.
Maths
In Maths we use Mastering Number, aimed at strengthening the understanding of number, and fluency with number facts, among children in the first three years of school. This half term we will be focusing on counting rhymes, subitising, cardinality and ordering numbers. Little Owls will also be focusing on AB patterns and language surrounding time.
Bury Rangers
On a Tuesday afternoon we do Bury Rangers. Bury Rangers is similar to forest school but we also learn lots of other skills. This half term we will be focusing on 'rain and puddles'.
Please send your child to school wearing their Bury Rangers kit. This must be suitable shoes such as wellies or walking boots, long trousers (no jeans please as these take too long to dry), a long sleeved top, a jumper and a waterproof coat. Waterproof trousers are also recommended.
Music
On a Thursday we do music with Mr Mott.
P.E.
On a Wednesday morning we do P.E.
Please send your child to school wearing PE kit including jogging bottoms or leggings, their green P.E t-shirt, their school jumper and sports trainers or plimsolls.
Understanding the World
Begin to understand our own history
Senses
Seasonal changes
RE: Why is the word God so important to Christians?
Expressive Arts and Design
Small world exploration
Emotions in drawing
Colour mixing
Invent, adapt and recount stories and narratives with peers
Learning and remembering entire songs
What to bring to school
Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in the classroom everyday. We are unable to provide water bottles for the children who are missing one. Please ensure only water is in the water bottles.
Please bring book bags with reading records and books in everyday so that children can read their books during the school day or change them for a new one.
When to arrive
Little Owl class will come through 'The Learning Garden' gate at 8:40. At the end of the day, please collect your child from the same gate. Please let Mrs Clark know if someone else is picking your child up and write it on the 'going home' clipboard that can be found in the front office.
Class Dojo
Class Dojo is a reward system we use alongside another behaviour system called Good to be Green. Class Dojo is an online platform where parents can be involved and notified when their child has received a dojo for something positive in school, and what they have achieved it for. In Little Owls we also use Class Dojo as a way of parents being able to see some of the things the children are doing at school during the week via the class story section. Please let me know if you need any help accessing this.