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Each day, when children come into the classroom, they place their photo on the colour zone that best shows how they are feeling: blue, green, yellow, or red.

We then talk about feelings and use strategies to help children move toward the green zone. These include fun Conscious Discipline breathing exercises:

Tap Breathing – arms out in front like a tap, breathing like water gushing ✋💦

Star Breathing – tracing a star with your finger while breathing ✨

Pretzel Breathing – twisting arms into a “pretzel” shape while taking deep breaths 🌀

These strategies help children self-regulate, feel calm, and get ready to learn.

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In Lola Circle Time, children focus on turn-taking, self-regulation, and building friendships.

They will:

Explore a sand timer to help with waiting their turn ⏳

Take part in adult-led demonstrations of sharing and cooperation 🤲

Practice using resources together and developing positive relationships 💛

These sessions help children learn important social skills in a fun, supportive way!

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In Drawing Club, children dive into a magical world of stories and imagination! ✨

They:

Explore vocabulary and share stories 📖

Enjoy modelled drawing before creating their own ideas ✏️

Develop fine motor skills and mark-making 🖌️

Learn through maths, creativity, and conversation 🔢💬

Each child works at their own level of confidence, with the freedom to explore, create, and have fun! 🌟

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Do you love books and stories? Do you want to open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and sharing really special time with them? Are you looking for an approach to Literacy that doesn't involve laboriously learning stories for weeks on end, but instead immerses children into a world full of imagination where anything can happen and often does?

If so, then Drawing Club is definitely for you. The progress children can make through Drawing Club across all areas of the curriculum is exceptional with the added bonus of confidence and joy. Developed with Early Years principles in mind and not KS2, Drawing Club is a fantastic place to start a child's experience of school 'Literacy'.

The one thing that the world of story has to have is magic and Drawing Club is the golden key to open the door to it for children and go on an adventure with them.

Perfect for Reception and Year 1

Immerse children in the world of story and unearth their imaginations

Develop a wide range of skills across the whole curriculum in 'one hit'

Give yourself the opportunity to gather evidence of progress that can be astonishing

Develop children's creative streaks as well as their ability to share ideas and skills

Give your children age-appropriate practice that is highly engaging and links with Play Projects and The Message Centre

Look out for the Drawing Club pop-up dates in the Shop by clicking on the button below:

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Do you love books and stories? Do you want to open up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and sharing really special time with them?

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Ruby is a creative, adventurous girl who one day finds out that she has a worry. She hides the worry, so it grows and stops her from being her adventurous self. This book guides conversations about worries as something we can be aware of and control.

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Fiction text - In Every House In Every Street

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Fiction text - In Every House In Every Street

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In Every House on Every Street takes us behind the doors and windows of one house in one street. It shows us the family, the community and the love that resides there. As we are shown around the house we learn that the rooms are not just rooms, they are places to play, care and feel together.

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in every house in every street jess hitchman

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When Winnie decides to grow vegetables in her garden, she gets more than she bargained for – giant beanstalks, colossal cabbages, and an enormous pumpkin perched on her roof! But what can Winnie do with her huge pumpkin when only the shell is left? Prepare to be amazed!

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In our number work, we follow the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Maths (NCETM) scheme of learning. Pupils will build on previous experiences of number from their home and nursery environments, and further develop their subitising and counting skills. They will explore the composition of numbers within 5. They will begin to compare sets of objects and use the language of comparison.

Pupils will:
• identify when a set can be subitised and when counting is needed
• subitise different arrangements
• make different arrangements of numbers within 5
• spot smaller numbers ‘hiding’ inside larger numbers
• hear and join in with the counting sequence, and connect this to the ‘staircase’ pattern of the counting numbers
• develop counting skills and knowledge, including cardinality and one to one correspondence
• compare sets of objects by matching
• begin to develop the language of ‘whole’ when talking about objects which have parts

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Fiction text - What's in the Witch's kitchen?

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Fiction text - What's in the Witch's kitchen?

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A book with rhyming words about a witch who hides treats and tricks in her kitchen cupboards. The contents of the cupboards depend on how the doors are opened, and can include things like frogspawn, popcorn, lollipops, or rabbit plops.

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Children will delight in following the black cat's progress through the dark wood, into the dark house, and eventually to the surprise discovery at the back of the toy cupboard, in this mysterious, beautifully illustrated picture book.

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Fiction text - Where the poppies now grow

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Fiction text - Where the poppies now grow

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Set during the First World War, in simple rhyme, Where the Poppies Now Grow takes readers on a journey of friendship set against a changing landscape of innocence, of war and then finally, of peace.

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Binny is excited to talk to her class about her favourite holiday. But she struggles to find the words. Taking a deep breath, she tells them about the fireworks, the delicious pedras and jalebis, and the clay lamps called diyas ... there are so many wonders to see!29 Sept 2022

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After waiting for days and days and days, it's finally Christmas Eve. And that's when you can try to catch Santa. . . . but only if you know the right tricks! Pay attention to these clever tips for “catching” Santa (be crafty! be clever! be gentle!) on Christmas Eve. Santa can't resist cookies...or riddles!

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In music this term, children will:

Listen & respond to different styles 🎧

Sing along to nursery rhymes & action songs 🎤

Play & improvise on classroom instruments 🥁🎸

Share & perform their learning 🌟

Music lessons help children build confidence, creativity, and a love of music! 🎶

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In Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle, children use dance and big movements to develop the fine motor skills needed for writing. 💃🖌️

Each session, children:

Learn a new gross motor movement to a piece of music 🎶

Dance and make marks in foam, sand, or on paper ✏️

Use these movements to explore letter shapes and begin writing

These sessions are full of fun while helping your child become a confident mark maker! 🌟

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Motor Skills - Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle Part 1

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This term, children will:

Celebrate special events like birthdays, family occasions, and national/world events such as Diwali and Fireworks Night 🎉

Learn about people who are important in their lives 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Discover the natural world through investigation, exploration, and curiosity 🌿

These activities help children understand, explore, and connect with the world around them! 🌟

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Dough Disco is a fun way for children to strengthen the small muscles in their fingers and hands, which helps with writing, cutting, and other fine motor skills.

💡 How it helps:

Rolling, squeezing, pinching, and stretching the dough build finger strength and control

These movements prepare children to hold pencils and make marks confidently ✏️

Please send in one large tub of playdough, and clearly label it with your child’s name.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | Dough Disco | Nursery Rhymes

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In our SCARF (Safety, caring, achievement, resilience, friendship) lessons we will be exploring:
Me and My Relationships
All about me
What makes me special?
Me and my special people
Who can help me?
Me and my feelings
Oral hygiene
Handwashing

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This term in art, we are exploring the work of Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist often called “the Princess of Polka Dots”. 🔴⚫️

The children will be inspired by her bold, colourful style — keep an eye out for our very own polka dot pumpkin creations! 🎃✨

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We use the Read Write Inc. (RWI) synthetic phonics scheme to help children learn to read and write.

This term your child will:

Learn Set 1 Speed Sounds: single letters (m, a, s, d…) and “special friends” (two-letter sounds) like sh, th, ch, qu, ng, nk, ck. Some sounds are stretchy (f, l, m) and some are bouncy (c, d, g).

Blend sounds to read words: e.g., m–a–t → mat, c–a–t → cat, f–i–sh → fish, s–p–l–a–sh → splash.

Read Blending Books and Storybooks in Red, Green, and Purple levels.

This approach helps children confidently decode words and develop a love of reading!

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This term, we will be sharing our class rules with the children:

Ready ✅ | Respectful 🙏 | Safe 🛡️

We use Conscious Discipline, a positive approach that helps children to:

understand and manage their emotions

build self-control and empathy

develop strong social skills.

This approach is particularly suited to Early Years, as it combines clear structure with nurturing support, helping young children feel secure, confident, and ready to learn.

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This is how we will be teaching the children how to pronounce sounds.

Some top tips are available on Seesaw at https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_item?item_id=item.3221ee17-4ca5-4efb-86cc-31a57fb9b8e0&share_token=YUftTyZZSzCFGsdw8jDcWw&mode=share

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🎓 Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum

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🎓 Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum

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In Reception, we follow the EYFS curriculum, which has 7 areas of learning:

Prime Areas (foundations for learning):

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

Communication & Language

Physical Development

Specific Areas (building on the foundations):

Literacy

Mathematics

Understanding the World

Expressive Arts & Design.

We use these areas to plan activities that help children develop key skills and build a strong foundation for learning and growing.

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Please remember to send a healthy snack with your child each day. As part of our healthy eating policy, we ask that children bring fruit or other nutritious options instead of chocolate or biscuits.

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Please ensure that snacks do not contain nuts, as we have children with allergies.

Thank you for helping us keep snack time safe and healthy!

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At the start of the year , we assess the children according to the Wellcomm speech and language toolkit, which we then use to help children who need a bit of support.

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We will demonstrate and follow our class rules - ready, respectful, safe.
We will focus on using full sentences when speaking, and encourage children to speak about characters in the small world and role play areas.
We will share stories and poems daily and use our circle times to share thoughts, ideas and feelings.

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We use a method called helicopter stories, in which the children take turns to role-play a story that they have created or heard.

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Each week, we learn a new poem. By the end of the week, children perform their poem for families on Seesaw and for Mr Gilbert. 🎤

Benefits for Reception children include:

Building confidence through performing

Developing memory and recall skills

Expanding vocabulary and language

Encouraging expression and creativity

Listening and concentration skills

Learning and performing poetry is a fun, engaging way to develop communication and social skills while celebrating each child’s voice! 🌟

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Please send a named water bottle to school each day. Bottles go in the trolley.

Water only, to keep children hydrated and protect their teeth.

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Please send wellies clearly labelled with your child’s name. Wellies stay at school on our welly rack.

We play outside in all weathers, so wellies and appropriate clothing are essential. Bad weather + unsuitable clothing = less fun, but jumping in puddles is encouraged when dressed for it! 🌧️💦

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Reception Teacher Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

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🎃 Pumpkin Farm Visit 🎃

This term we’ll be visiting Malpas Pumpkin Farm! During our trip, the children will:

Learn about growth, size, weight, and colour as they explore the pumpkins.

Enjoy a story walk through the corn maze, which the farmers grow to feed their animals.

Choose and bring back their own pumpkin to school - just in time to share lunch with friends.

It promises to be a fun, hands-on learning experience, full of discovery and autumn excitement! 🍂

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We love using the Numberblocks TV series to support our learning and you can find links to the clips that we will be watching through these links:

One finds a sock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6iqEz_28w

Three sings a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPG38oERQT8

Making four:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0y1OzDdnHs

Four changes shape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zozTEIfGe14

Three's apple comparison trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDORAUT_H6M

The whole of me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNDoZmUh3A

Meet the stampolines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RtZEeTJYOk

Which numbers make three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-j5sdeBcJw

Countalong adventure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6iqEz_28w

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Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot

Diwali

The Nativity

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P.E. sessions are on Tuesday mornings this term with Mr Wynne, our specialist P.E. teacher.

Please send your child in school P.E. kit:

Red shirt

Black shorts, skirt, or jogging bottoms

Navy hoodie

Plain black trainers

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This term, Mrs Kemp will be leading wonderful Forest School and art activities with the children.

Please send your child in school P.E. kit. Activities will vary depending on the weather and seasons, and we’ll update you on Seesaw about any specific requirements (e.g. hats & gloves).

Activities may include:

Forest art with natural materials 🍂

Bug hunts 🐞

Building dens 🏡

Spotting signs of the seasons 🍁

Nature scavenger hunts 🔍

Team games and outdoor challenges 🤸‍♂️

The sessions are designed to help children explore, create, and enjoy the outdoors in all weathers!