Owl Class - Nursery & Reception 2025 - 2026
Mr Roberts
Miss Van Onselen
Our aim at Newtown is to inspire and excite children at the beginning of their learning adventure and provide every member of our EYFS with a sense of awe, wonder and pride in their everyday learning and achievements. We are thrilled to see our youngest members of the school flourish and grow throughout the year.
In literacy this term, our reception children are diving into the text ‘Little Red’. We will be using this book to inspire and ignite our imaginations as we discover a slightly different adpatation of the story of little red riding hood.
Whilst our Nursery children will explore the classic fairytale book 'Goldilocks and the three bears'. As well as some other story treasures.
To transpire our love for reading, we will be sharing lots of story books and poems throughout the day as well as in our shared reading sessions.
At Newtown, we use Ready Steady Phonics to teach children phonics and letter formation. More information on how to support your child at home can be found on our home learning page.
We will also continue our maths journey using the scheme 'White Rose Maths' as we develop our numeracy skills. This term will see us explore numbers to 10 whilst looking at shapes and mass and capacity.
Additionally, in other areas of our currciulum we will be exploring our theme of 'Traditional tales' through science investigation. With exploring making different fairytale foods to explore what happens when you mix different foods. Plus getting mucked in with creating our own soup collaboratively in DT. We will also be continuing our RE learning journey where we will discover 'What makes the world special' to further our understanding of our school vision of:'Let your light shine!'
Home-learning:
Children in Reception will be sent a decodable reading book home each week, this books phonics sounds will have been taught and read toagther in their guided reading session the week previous. We suggest reading with your child every day for around 5 minutes. This will help consolidate their phonics knowledge, help with their reading fluency and holistically aid children in all aspects of our curriculum. We will also be sending learning sheets home which will help children practice their phonics sounds knowledge from that week.
You can find lots more information to support learning at home in our home learning section.
PE:
The children's PE lesson will take place on Friday afternoon. Children are required to come to school wearing their full PE kit. However we dvelop our physical development throughout the week with various continious provision activities.
Nursery
Our Nursery children will enjoy and retell the classic book of 'Goldilocks and the three bears' as well as enjoying other well known and loved fairytale story books.
This is as well as other story gems that the children enjoy as they develop their love for reading with us.
Super Sounds activities will see our nursery children to learn the vital skills in preparation for their Ready Steady Phonics lessons in Reception. Activities include alliteration, syllables, intial sounds and oral blending.
The children will explore Maths throughout the environment as they sort, match, make patterns, explore shape, count and recognise numbers.
Through Understanding the World the children will delve into their own and each other's likes and dislikes and explore how different people around the world celebrate different events like Easter and Ramadan. We will also learn how to care for and respect our natural environment during our forest school sessions whilst observing what is happening around us... what is happening to the plants and trees? Why do we need to wear our coats.
In Expressive Arts and Design they will learn a range of nursery rhymes and continue to explore different medias and materials.
Forest School
Forest School will be held on Monday's. Please bring your child in in forest school clothes that you don't mind getting dirty. Please also put a spare set of clothes in their bag incase they get wet or cold. This includes bringing a space pair of shoes if they have come in wearing wellies.
Key Information
- Please label all clothing to avoid the loss of property.
- Children should wear full uniform and black school shoes each day (unless it is a PE or forest school day).
- Our PE session will be on a Friday. Children are required to wear their full school PE kit to school with sensible trainers on these days. (PE kits can be purchsed from the school shop)
- Children should bring a water bottle everyday. Children are asked to bring water only.
- Children do not need to bring pencil cases or other personal items to school.
To find out more about who will be teaching the class click on our Meet the Team page.
Any questions we are always available at the end of the school day. Additionally don’t forget to follow what goes on in our school on our Class Dojo page!
Miss VO
