Welcome to Reception!

It has been a pleasure welcoming all your lovely children to Class 1. The children have settled so well into our class routines and we have been having lots of fun exploring our indoor and outdoor classrooms together. 

This half term our topic is called ‘Me and My World’. We are going to be doing lots of learning about ourselves, our families and what makes us who we are!

Our core text we are reading in Literacy this half-term is:

 Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt.

Phonics

We are really enjoying our daily fun phonics sessions and we have been busy learning lots of new phonemes (sounds). The phonemes that we will be learning in the first half term are:

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck 

Please help your child consolidate these at home by sharing their reading book together for 10 minutes every evening.

We have been busy in our classroom practising our letter formation...

Mark Making by exploring the artist Alma Thomas

This week as part of our topic learning class 1 have been focusing on art in the style of Alma Thomas. We used her work as inspiration to create our own masterpieces by using many different mark making tools.

All About Me!

This week as part of our topic learning class 1 have been discussing themselves, describing their features and talking about their likes and dislikes, such as what they like to play with, what foods they like to eat and what they like to do with their families. Alongside this they have been creating their self-portraits using different media and materials in our indoor and outdoor classrooms.