Reception

A warm welcome to you from all the team!

Mrs Lucas, Mrs Page, Miss Jewkes, Mrs Evans and Miss Doody

Our Pedagogy

Wellcomm

In order to close the word gap, we need to work in partnership with our parents; we can’t work in isolation and have the same impact on children’s language development. Wellcomm provides us with a developmental framework and a small step approach to the knowledge and skills children need to become competent communicators.

Please find a range of activities below which you can work through with your child at home.

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The Early Years curriculum is split into 7 areas of learning.

Here’s what we will be focusing on this term:

Personal, Social & Emotional Development:

Build confidence settling in to a new class and environment, play alongside others, building up new friendships, share their experiences and skills with others, adapt behaviour, become familiar with routines and class rules

Communication & Language:

Speaking and listening to each other, sharing ideas, responding to instructions, answering questions, learning new songs and using language in imaginative play.

Physical Development:

Show preference for a dominant hand, move with confidence in a range of ways and explore the outdoor area.

Literacy:

Sharing stories, book handling skills, using pictures to tell stories, learning letter formation rhymes, developing speaking and listening skills, hearing initial sounds in words, beginning to make marks and form letters.

Mathematics:

Counting and recognising numbers to 10, Forming numbers to 10, exploring repeating patterns.

Understanding of the World:

Creating self-portraits, exploring changes through the seasons, learning about different cultures and religions.

Expressive Art and Design:

Using imagination in play, singing songs and dancing, selecting colours for a purpose, mixing paints, making representations of people, animals and objects.

Helping your child to read at home

The Read Write Inc. Phonics approach teaches children to read sets of sounds and then blend them to read words.

The books that they read at school will only contain the sounds they’ve already learned, so children learn quickly and confidently.

First your child will learn to read:

Set 1 Speed Sounds (sounds written with one letter):
m a s d t i n p g o c k u b f e l h r j v y w z x
and sounds written with two letters (your child will call these ‘special friends’):
sh th ch qu ng nk ck
Words containing these sounds, by sound-blending, e.g. m–a–t mat, c–a–t cat, g–o–t got, f–i–sh fish, s–p–o–t spot, b–e–s–t best, s–p–l–a–sh splash
At school, they will read Read Write Inc. PhonicsSound Blending Books and Red, Green and Purple Storybooks.

Phonics Set 1 Sounds for you to practise at home

What is Fred Talk?

The children have been introduced to a toy frog called Fred! Fred can only say the sounds in a word and needs your child to help him read the word. Fred will say the sounds and children will work out the word. For example, Fred will say the sounds c–a–t, and children will say the word cat. This is Fred Talk: sounding out the word.

Have fun with Fred Talk at home!

“What a tidy r-oo-m!”

“Where’s your c-oa-t?”

“Time for b-e-d!”

The team in EYFS are all here to support you and your families every step of the way. We recognise that this is a difficult time for us all and we want you to know that your e-mails do not just have to be about the work that we are setting, you can contact us if you’re feeling worried, or you need to talk about something. We are here to help! Both children and parents can email us at:

class1@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk (Mrs Aggarwal)

class2@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk (Mrs Thickett)