Contact us
- Tel: 0121 556 0854
- Email: enquiries@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
- Mesty Croft Primary St Luke's Road, Wednesbury, West Midlands, England, WS10 0QY
Reception
A warm welcome to you from all the team!
Mrs Aggarwal, Mrs van Hoof, Miss Aadnanes, Miss Jewkes, Mrs Madeley and Miss Tipton
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.
Having fun with Autumn leaves!
Pumpkin Fun!
When Yoda the Tortoise came to visit Reception
Reception have had lots of fun playing in our new outdoor area. We loved eating delicious ice lollies in the sunshine.
Class 1 have been reading the story 'Handa's Surprise'. The children enjoyed the story so much they wanted to make their own book.
Class 1 have been reading and retelling the story 'Handa's Surprise'
Violet loved reading our story to her friends.
WOW Work in Reception
Easter Activities in Reception
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 8
Jaida used her story map to retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Peter reading our phonics book 'Rag the Rat'
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 7
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 7
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 6
Jaida and her big sister Leshea have been practicing phonics
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 6
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 5
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 5
Jaida
Jaida used her story map to retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Shelby
Shelby can retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 4
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 4
We've had lots of fun in the snow today!
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 3
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 3
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 2
Class 2 Remote Learning - Week 2
Class 1 Remote Learning - Week 1
Class 2 home learning week 2
Remote Learning - Friday 8th January
Remote Learning - Thursday 7th January
Here's our new dough disco introduction powerpoint
Remote Learning - Wednesday 6th January
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)
Christmas themed home learning activities!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We look forward to seeing you in 2021.
Stay safe :)
Welcome to the North Pole and Santa's secret workshop!
Our Winter Curiosity Cube! What can you see? How do they make candy canes? What do we wear in the Winter season?
We had lots of fun celebrating Diwali in Reception!
Class 2 Mrs Thickett's Home Learning
November 2020
Whilst children in class 2 are learning at home, each day there will be slides with tasks for them to complete.
This is to support your child's learning development with as little disruption as possible. All tasks are linked to our current curriculum. If you have any concerns or queries please get in touch via email class2@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
Class 2 Home Learning - Weekly Topic Overview
Monday 23rd November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Please click into the remote learning tab at the top for the weekly remote learning timetable and task.
Friday 20th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Thursday 19th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Wednesday 18th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Tuesday 17th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning
Monday 16th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning
Class 2 Home Learning - Weekly Topic Overview
Friday 13th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning
Thursday 12th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Wednesday 11th November - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the links below to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout. Happy learning!
Tuesday - Class 2 Home Learning Slides
Please click into the PowerPoint icons to access the home learning for the day. There are active links and voice notes (speaker symbol) for additional support and help throughout.
We've been extremely busy creating beautiful pictures to represent the people in our family!
Our Reading Spine text this half term is 'Silly Billy'
We enjoyed creating our very own worry dolls.
We created lovely worry dolls to tell all our worries to and then used grey for the items that were in Billy's imagination.
Super writing!
Super number formation!
Home Learning Friday 18th September 2020
Home Learning Friday 11th September
Home Learning Friday 4th September
The Stretchy Materials book is not available on a free link, so as an alternative investigate Playdough with these Stretchy Superhero sheets:
Our pictures of 'The Rainbow Fish'.
Rainbow Fish Writing
Rainbow Fish maths
Rainbow Pictures
Our beach pictures
Work inspired by the poem 'Rain'
Buzz ... Buzz ... Buzz ... Buzzy Bee
Sunflowers
Exploring Trees
Scientists Madly Investigating Melting Ice Cubes.
Lets get creative is enlarged below.
Colourful Summer Collage
Kite Designs
Up and Away in our Beautiful Balloons.
Summer Shape Pictures
Looking After the Pennies - Money
Online Maths Activities
Weather Diaries
Memory Game
Junk-Modelled Lighthouse
We're going on a Butterfly Hunt ...
Fabulous Fruity Patterns!
Super Phonics work with Fred the frog!
"We discovered it was 'thank a teacher day' so Shaylon has made all of you a thank you card!"
click above for the caterpillar song 👆🐛
Hungry Caterpillar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btFCtMhF3iI
Week 6
Week 5
Links you will need for today's learning:
The sound of the day: https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
9.30am RWI: https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
These films are streamed live and will not be able to be viewed at other times.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30am, word time at 9.45am and spellings at 10am.
Set 2 Speed Sounds and word time 10am and spellings at 10.15am.
Set 3 Speed Sounds and word time at 10.30am and spellings at 10.45am.
Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Get creative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ReNKZiZNc
PE with Joe Wicks can be completed anytime of the day by clicking this link:
Links you will need for today's learning:
The sound of the day: https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
9.30am RWI: https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
These films are streamed live and will not be able to be viewed at other times.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30am, word time at 9.45am and spellings at 10am.
Set 2 Speed Sounds and word time 10am and spellings at 10.15am.
Set 3 Speed Sounds and word time at 10.30am and spellings at 10.45am.
Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Understanding the World VE Day clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpaA_tZJV00
Get creative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TlWcL9sVnc
PE with Joe Wicks can be completed anytime of the day by clicking this link:
Super home learning 04.05.20
Violet's been busy baking!
Louie and Jude's Frog!
Let's go on a bug hunt!
Toby's delicious homemade ice cream using yoghurt and a medicine syringe!
Toby's indoor washing line!
Yummy chocolate brownies!
Amazing work!
Links you will need for today's learning:
The sound of the day: https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
9.30am RWI: https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
These films are streamed live and will not be able to be viewed at other times.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30am, word time at 9.45am and spellings at 10am.
Set 2 Speed Sounds and word time 10am and spellings at 10.15am.
Set 3 Speed Sounds and word time at 10.30am and spellings at 10.45am.
Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Maths song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A
Watch the lifecycle of a frog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmlaclb3K2o
Sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJOSoJNeu54
PE with Joe Wicks can be completed anytime of the day by clicking this link:
Interactive links for some of today's learning. Maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrHLsHOVgM
28/04/20
Here is the Story of Supertato for you to read today.
You can also watch an animated version of the story here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rze89HB9u8g
Links you will need for today's learning:
The sound of the day: https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
9.30am RWI: https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
These films are streamed live and will not be able to be viewed at other times.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30am, word time at 9.45am and spellings at 10am.
Set 2 Speed Sounds and word time 10am and spellings at 10.15am.
Set 3 Speed Sounds and word time at 10.30am and spellings at 10.45am.
Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Maths Big number song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y
PE with Joe Wicks can be completed any time of the day by clicking this link:
24/04/2020
Links you will need for 23/04/20 learning:
The sound of the day: https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
9.30am RWI: https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
These films are streamed live and will not be able to be viewed at other times.
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30am, word time at 9.45am and spellings at 10am.
Set 2 Speed Sounds and word time 10am and spellings at 10.15am.
Set 3 Speed Sounds and word time at 10.30am and spellings at 10.45am.
Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
PE with Joe Wicks can be completed any time of the day by clicking this link:
Please click the Interactive links below for learning slide 21/04/20
RWI reading: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Dotty Maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Mazc-SsG0
Read: What the Ladybird Heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzNIERZUyEM
Dont forget PE with Joe Wicks at 9am :
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvPHOpzoEk5onAEbq40g2-k
20/04/2020
Your amazing learning!
Keep up the hard work you are making us so proud.
Watch link: How does food get into a tin can? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0hxrGp1IJI
Please find the interactive links you can click straight into below:
Links for 5 little speckled frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC-gHBU_d0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCumUup9vWQ
Frida and Bear story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHkEvUjr4Vk
Oxford Owl
P.E with Joe Wicks
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvPHOpzoEk5onAEbq40g2-k
Mesty Croft Phonic page:
https://mestycroftprimary.co.uk/phonics/
Home learning/our curriculum/phonics
RWI Daily Lessons:
https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education/
Home Learning Packs for children:
For children who are self-isolating and have only mild symptoms that do not prevent them from completing work, please see attached some activities that may be completed at home.
Please find below the interactive links listed in the above tasks:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/please-log-in
Can you find out what a shadow is?
Ditty - Day 4 - 26/03/20
We have really enjoyed receiving your e-mails and photographs, thank you!
Here's some examples of the amazing learning taking place at home.
Home Learning from Monday 23rd March:
•Every day, this section of our year group page will be updated with daily work before 8.50am, for your child to complete at home.
•Please remember to take lots of photographs and stick these in your child’s journal.
•We look forward to receiving your e-mails!
•The children may wish to lead their own learning and learn about something that interests them. For example, Space, animals, plants, etc.
•Any work that children complete can be emailed to their class teachers using the following email addresses:
Mrs Aggarwal: receptionclass1@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
Mrs Thickett: receptionclass2@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
Mrs Thickett: receptionclass2@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
Work that you wish your class teacher to see, may be completed electronically, or simply a photograph. We will provide individual feedback to you and can also answer any questions/queries that you may have. Schools remain open for vulnerable children and those of parents who are key workers. Therefore we ask that you give us up to 24 hours to respond to your work/questions, as we may not immediately be available to you.
This is an unusual time for us all, but we encourage children to continue their learning at home with the support of both yourselves and accessing their class teacher's support remotely.
This is an unusual time for us all, but we encourage children to continue their learning at home with the support of both yourselves and accessing their class teacher's support remotely.
Monday 23rd March
Welcome to Reception!
A warm welcome to you from all the team!
For the first few weeks of the term we will be concentrating on settling the children in to their new environments, establishing rules and routines and meeting new peers.
We are all looking forward to a fantastic year with the children.
You are now a full time member of Mesty Croft Academy, and are about to embark on an amazing learning journey.
We recognise that every child is unique! Learning happens when you are engaged and motivated in your play; it also happens when you are happy and secure in your learning environment. Here at Mesty Croft Academy, we are very proud of our enabling environment where you will begin your lifelong love of learning.
Your year in Reception will be bursting with fantastic learning opportunities, ensuring that your time in Reception will be one that you will never forget. Each day will include Phonics, Literacy and Maths sessions, as well as opportunities for child-initiated learning using a range of vibrant learning spaces, both indoors and outside.
We foster and promote positive learning behaviours; believe and achieve!
Parent Voice - Autumn Term
Magic Moments: Please remember to send your child's 'Magic Moment' slips so that we can celebrate their achievements together.
Remembrance Day
"This is a soldier and he is fighting to keep us safe."
Phonics learning at home....
Can you hear and say the first sound you hear in a word?
Can you have a go at writing the first sound you heard in a word?
You can support your child hearing the first sound by playing ‘eye spy’ and then let them have a go by writing the letter.
Maths learning at home....
Can you count up to 10 and back?
What happens to the numbers when you count forwards each time?
What happens to the numbers when you count back each time?
Can you have a go at writing your numbers up to 10?
Pencil Grip
Capturing the Learning in Reception!
Paint Blowing!
We created some beautiful artwork by blowing colourful paint across the paper using straws!
Spider Hunting!
We went on a mini beast hunt to see what we could find today!
Fun Writing!
Chinese New Year!
We had lots of fun celebrating Chinese New Year this week!
We took part in lots of fun activities such as making dragons, willow painting, boiling noodles and tasting lots of delicious Chinese food!
Parent Voice - Spring Term
Pancake Day!
World Book Day!
We had lots of fun sharing our favourite stories with each other!
