Welcome to Reception
Little Owl Class
Welcome to Reception's class page!
Our teacher is Miss Webb.
Ms Rowland is our teaching assistant.
Autumn Term 1
Topic
Our topic for the first half of Autumn Term is 'All About Me'. 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.
Literacy
In Literacy, we will be focusing on 'The Colour Monster' as our key text this half term. We will share our own feelings and ideas about the book and use props and role play to help us.
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 must 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, ordinality and cardinality, composition, comparison and subitising. We will also discuss measure and patterns and will match, sort and compare different objects.
Bury Rangers
On a Friday afternoon we do Bury Rangers with Miss Webb and Mr Gatrell. Bury Rangers is similar to forest school but we also learn lots of other things. This half term we will be exploring rain and puddles and the children will take part in different exciting activities each week.
Please come to school wearing your 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 afternoon, 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
What makes me special?
How are we/others feeling?
Who are the people that can help us?
All about our body and senses
R.E. - Why is the word God important to Christians?
Expressive Arts and Design
Small world exploration.
Showing emotion though drawing.
Explore colour and colour mixing.
Role play area - Home Corner.
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 bring book bags 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 start school at 8.40 - please drop your child off at the 'Learning Garden' gate. At the end of the day, please wait on the playground and I will send your child to you at 3.15. Please let Mrs Clark know if someone else is picking your child up and write it in the 'going home book' 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.
Good to be Green
Good to be Green is a behaviour system in which all children begin each day with a green card. The children are given 2 verbal warnings about their behaviour if appropriate. If they continue to disrupt or break a school rule, they will be given a yellow card. The consequence of this is that they must spend part of their next play time reflecting on their choices either verbally or written. If a behaviour continues, the child will be given a red card. This means they will be asked to see Mr Moore and a phone call will be made home.