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 second term.
In Literacy this term, our reception children are diving into the text ‘The Extraordinary Gardener’. We will learn all about Joe who has a wild imagination and takes great kindness to share his love of brightening up the world.
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 subtracting, number bonds and patterns.
Additionally, this term we will be exploring the theme of growing and spring which sees us making a planting flowers and plants in our EYFS garden and explore collage to make collage flowers. Our Science units will see us look at the changes in trees and the seasons, worms and how to care for plants.
In Geography we will be exploring cities, towns and villages across the UK and learn more about the different environments around the world and we will ask the question "Why do Christians make an Easter Garden?" throughout our Religious Education lessons.
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.
You can find lots more information to support learning at home in our home learning section.
PE:
PE lessons will take place on Wednesday morning and Friday afternonn. Children are required to come to school wearing their full PE kit.
Nursery
Our Nursery children will delve into another traditional tale: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, learning to retell and reinact the classic story.
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 begin to learn about festivals and families, learning about similarites and differences within cultures and communities.
In Expressive Arts and Design they will be exploring junk modelling and creating models and will learn a range of nursery rhymes.
Forest School
Forest School will be held on Friday'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 sessions will be on a Wednesday and 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
