Robins Class - Reception and Nursery
A very warm welcome to all our families.
Welcome back to the Autumn Term. We hope you have all had a lovely summer and enjoyed the beautiful weather. We are looking forward to a term full of fun and learning and feel excited to be a part of your child’s adventure, as they start out on their special school journey.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask.
The Robins Team.
Our books this half term….
Phonics For nursery age children -
We follow ‘Little Wandle Foundations’ and the CUSP curriculum.
Reading in Robins Class - We really love stories and reading for fun in Robins Class, be that sharing a much loved book at home, choosing one to snuggle down with in the reading corner or voting for our story time book.
Click the link below to see a list of the top 100 Reception age good quality texts.
How many have you read before? Could you visit our local library to find some of them?
This reading list has come from Books for primary schools - Peters and includes many interesting titles.
Nursery 100 Books
Here are some of the books we will be enjoying this year.
Maths - White rose maths
Maths in the Reception Class
As a school we follow the ‘White Rose Hub’ Maths curriculum outline to ensure that the children are both learning and consolidating their maths knowledge in discrete lessons, group work and during child initiated play.
Phonics in Reception
As a Reception class, we use a phonics scheme called ‘Little Wandle.’
Each day the children share a whole class phonics session where we are introduced to a new phoneme (sound) starting with single graphemes (letter shapes) moving on to digraphs (2 letter sounds- ch, sh, ee) and trigraphs (3 letter sounds - igh, ear)
Each day we practise blending the sounds for reading and segmenting the sounds in a word for spelling. We also practise our ‘tricky words’ daily. (words that cannot be sounded out - the, no)
The children read in guided reading groups revisiting the same book. These books are matched to the children’s current learning in the phonics sessions and this allows them to apply their new learning.
Children who need any extra practice are supported through daily ‘catch up sessions.’
