Foundation Stage 2 (FS2)

ReceptionCurriculum Evening

Thursday 22nd September 2016

THANK YOU!• Children have settled into Reception really well.

• Morning routines – Book bags• Dinners

• Home time routines

• Thank you for your continued support in supporting the children’s independence.

General Information•Drinks – bottle filled with water•Naming jumpers and cardigans•PE kits (naming) & Independent Dressing•Wellingtons and Raincoats•No toys or sweets in school•No earrings or transfer tattoos•Snack time•Permission forms for inhalers/allergies.•48hrs for sickness and diarrhoea.

Our Curriculum

Characteristics of Effective Learning

•Playing and Exploring – Engagement•Active Learning – Motivation•Creating and Thinking Critically – Thinking

•White Mouse

TimetableoFlexible Timetable – set times for Phonics, Guided Reading, Handwriting, Maths.oChildren have access to outdoors oPE times – Thursday morning with Mr. Parsons, Friday afternoon with class teachers.oSeparate lessons - RE with Mr Pye and Circle Time with Mrs WhittingtonoIndependent Snack – open all dayoLunch time – 11:30 – 12:30oAssembly

Behaviour and Rewards

• Class Rules• Zone Board• Stickers• Best Work Assembly

Phonics•Your child will follow a programme of phonics teaching based on the Primary National Strategy document ‘Letters and Sounds’, in order to develop and practise their reading skills.

•Daily 20 minute session and opportunities for children to apply their phonics skills around the classroom.

•Phase 2 (Reception): In this phase the children learn a new sound each day, accompanied by an action to help them remember it. For example, ‘sssss’ for the letter S.

•Once secure with their sounds, the children begin to segment and blend the sounds to form new words. For example, s a t = sat.

•Alongside this, the children will learn ‘tricky words’ which are sounds that the children cannot sound out phonetically. For example, the word ‘the’. The children have to memorise this visually.

Phase 3 – Children learn ‘digraphs’ and ‘trigraphs’. This is when two letters come together to make 1 sound. For example, ch.

The children will then learn alongside this an increased number of tricky words and learn how to write them successfully.

Phase 4 – Children consolidate their previous learning.

Phase 5 – We will move children onto Phase 5 if they show a secure understanding of Phases 2,3,4.

Phonics

ReadingHome-School Reading Scheme:•In addition to the phonics programme, your child will also bring home a ‘home-school’ reading book from our selection of phonic reading schemes. •This book is to be practised at home and it will be changed at school twice a week. If your child is able to read the words in the book and talk about what happened in the story, they will be given a new home reading book.

•It is suggested that you will enjoy and share this book for five minutes every day, as opposed to a lengthy reading session once or twice a week. •Your child will have a personal reading record in their book bag. •Please feel free to make comments. You and your child can make a response to the book by either writing a comment or drawing a picture.

Please ensure that your child brings their reading bag to school every day.

Guided Reading Sessions:During the school week your child will be part of a small guided reading group. We enjoy and share topic and reading scheme books. With the teacher the group will practise their developing phonic reading strategies and practise ‘tricky words’ and the key ‘reception words’. The children will practise talking about stories and books.

Story time:Throughout the school day your child will be exposed to a variety of books. There will be lots of opportunities for your child to engage and share books that fire their imagination and interest. We intend to ‘promote reading as a source of pleasure and interest and motivate them to value reading’ – (Letters and

Sounds).

•Plea for Parent Helpers!

Writing DevelopmentoDifferentiate pictures from writing.oSquiggles and making meaning to their marks. oLines and circles.oInitial sounds.oProminent sounds in the right order.oKey words.oBuilding a sentence

Mathematical DevelopmentIn Reception your child will be learning to:•Rote count to 20 and beyond.•Count up to 10+ objects•Recognise number 0-20.•Use language of comparison – more / less, taller / shorter, longer / shorter.•Find 1 more / 1 less than any given number to 10+.•Add 2 small groups of objects together.•Understand the concept of subtraction / taking away.•Make and talk about patterns.•Name 2D and 3D shapes – circle, square, triangle, rectangle, sphere, cylinder, cuboid, cube, cone.•Use language to describe position.

Pack•Phonics Information•List of Phonics sounds and actions•Tricky Words•Letter formation•Maths Information•Number formation•Reception Topic Overview

Homework•Homework folders – sent home on a Thursday and due back on a Monday.•One piece of Literacy and Numeracy homework each week.•Home Reading•High Frequency Words•Barnaby Bear•Parent Contribution to Learning Journals

DatesPlease come to our Parents Evening on:

Tuesday 11th October - 3:30 – 6:00pm

Wednesday 12th October – 5:00 – 7:30pm

- Inspire Workshop – Summer Term

Thank you• Thank you very much for

coming.

• We hope you have found it useful and informative.

• Thank you for all your continued support.

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together to be the best we can be”.