Hawk Class

We hope you have had an enjoyable summer holiday and your children are enjoying ‘Big School’. We have a very busy term with lots ahead of us and a great deal of fun too. If you have any questions regarding your child or the Curriculum please come and see us.

We are looking forward to working with you and your children over the forthcoming year. The below topic web provides a brief curriculum overview of what your child will be covering this term.

Key Days

Forest learning is on a Thursday.
PE is on a Friday.
Books are changed every Friday.

Curriculum

Homework

To begin with, every child will bring home picture books, these are an important part of your child’s reading development and should be looked at daily. Every book had a different story to tell and you should encourage your children to make up these stories using new vocabulary and questioning techniques. Alongside this, each week your child will go to the school library and choose a sharing book to bring home, these can be read to your children and enjoyed throughout the week.

Once we begin phonics, your child will begin to bring home books to help practise their phonics sounds we have learnt that week. The books will have red and greens words on page one, these need to be practiced daily. Green words can be sounded out using phonic knowledge, red words are tricky words so these need to be read through recall. It is very important your children practice these words in a variety of ways; reading them, hearing them and identifying them and writing them.

Your children will soon start to learn a phonics sound each day. A letter will be sent home with a timetable of these sounds and some flashcards for you to use at home. A parent information evening will be held to explain our scheme. It is important you practice these at home. This work at home is designed to be fun and will help to consolidate their learning they do at school.

Mathletics log ins can also be found in reading records. Mathletics is used throughout the school for homework. Reception children will be set homework through Mathletics in the Summer term. Until then please use the website to explore games and activities as you wish.

Reception Baseline

At the start of the Reception year, we complete the statutory Reception Baseline with all children. For more information, please see Department for Education leaflet below.

reception baseline assessment information for parents.pdf