Owl Class - Nursery & Reception 2024 - 2025
Mrs Hidalgo
Mr Roberts
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 excited to welcome all our children back for their third term.
In literacy this term, our reception children are diving into the text ‘Juniper Jupiter’. Juniper Jupiter is a real-life superhero. She's super brave, super fast, super strong, super smart and she can even fly. Whilst our Nursery children will jump into another superhero tale: Super Duck!
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 as we develop our numeracy skills. This term will see us explore numerical patterns, shape (Compose, decompose and rotate shape), measure (volume and capacity) and time.
Additionally, in other areas of our currciulum we will be exploring world landscapes, delving into kings, queens and castles and developing an understanding of how to describe and name animals. In Religious Education we will be looking at what places are special and why. Whilst in expressive arts we will be exploring craft and design, and later cooking!
Home-learning:
Children in Reception will be sent a decodable reading book home each week, this book will have been taught and practiced in school during 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 PE lesson will take place on Friday afternoon. Children are required to come to school wearing their full PE kit.
Nursery
Our Nursery children will enjoy and retell 'Super Duck' by Jez Alborough as well as enjoying other key texts:
Supertato, Nat Fantastic, Super duper me. 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 lives as we begin to get to know our friends a little bit more. 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 start wearing our sun hats?
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 Wednesday's. We have our own all-in-ones and wellies for the children to use over their school PE kits. However, during the colder weather we will ask that you send an extra layer of clothing, hats and gloves into school for the children to put over their PE kits to put on to keep them warm. Please also put a spare set of clothes in their bag incase they get wet or cold.
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.
We are really looking forward to starting another amazing school year with you all and don’t forget to follow what goes on in our school on our Class Dojo page!
Mrs Hidalgo
