We hope you’ve all had a fantastic summer and are ready and raring to go again. We are really looking forward to this term and we hope you are too! Autumn Term is a very busy one, so here’s what we’ll be up to!

English

We’ve  got lots of exciting activities planned in English. Our writing focus is based on a book called Leon & The Place Between which is set in a circus. We will be creating our own fantasy narrative using a circus theme and including lots of exciting vocabulary and descriptive techniques. We will be analysing different texts and video clips to help inspire our own writing, so that we can carry on being awesome authors too!

We will develop our SPAG knowledge through continuing to learn about the various word classes and different spelling patterns, including the Y5/6 word list. We will be focussing on how to apply all our SPAG work into our own writing.

In Guided Reading, we will be studying The Nowhere Emporium by Ross McKenzie, which is a fantasy narrative based on time travel.

Maths

We will continue to develop our skills in the 4 operations, our understanding of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Interpreting Tables and Area & Perimeter. We will be focussing on the Using and Applying aspect of Maths through Reasoning Challenges and improving our Maths fluency through Fluent in Five each day.

Please remember to carry on practising your times tables up to 12×12.

 

Science

Our topic this half term is Earth & Space. We will be learning all about the planets in our solar system, about the phases of the moon, how shadows are formed and about the seasons change.

Topic

Our topic for the whole of this term is The Tudors. We will be learning all about the Tudor reign- Henry 8th and his 6 wives, the break with Rome and what daily life was like in the Tudor times. We will also be having a Tudor workshop in school!

 

Jigsaw

Our first Puzzle is called Being Me In My World.  We will be discussing how we learn, how we can help others and our school community.

Computing

We will be using different types of information to create our own databases. We will also be learning about vector drawings and creating our own drawings using different programmes.

PE

PE will be on Mondays and Wednesdays.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PE KIT. This should include a plain white t-shirt or Corrie t-shirt, plain black shorts or leggings and black pumps.

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

 

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school.

Please make sure you also read twice each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you. We will sign your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY  to check you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

 

We can’t wait for to get to know you all and for an exciting term ahead!

Miss Wood and Mrs McDade

 

Children who attend our ‘Boost group’ have been identified as needing an extra ‘boost’ with their learning.

Each morning, each child will work to develop their speaking and listening, reading, writing and maths skills.

Here you will find further information about what your child in Boost Group will be learning in other areas of the curriculum, along with other useful information.

Autumn Curriculum

Topic: Why can’t a meerkat live in the North Pole?

This term we will be looking at the book Meerkat Mail. The children will learn where meerkats live and will compare the meerkats habitat to animals that live in the North Pole.

 

Science: Light

In the light unit children will learn about light sources and how shadows are formed.

 

PHSE: JIGSAW : Being in my world

Our school follows a scheme called Jigsaw and this term Boost group children will complete a unit called ‘Being in my world’ which the children will talk about when they feel worried and who then can ask for help, how to help themselves and others feel like they belong, how to help their class a safe and fair place and how to work cooperatively.

 

RE:

In RE the children will be looking at: Why is Jesus inspiring to some people?

 

PE: Basketball (also swimming for year 4 children)

The children will continue to have the sports coach working with them on a Thursday afternoon. This half term, the children will developing their skills for the game of basketball.

Please ensure your correct and full PE kit is in school all week as PE days may change to accommodate other activities taking place in school.

Year 4 children, will join their peers and attend swimming lessons on a Monday afternoon. Please make sure the children have appropriate swimming kits and towels in a bag.

 

Music: (also brass for year 3 children)

Music this half term will be using the Charanga scheme, Inventing a musical story unit.

Year 3 children will have the opportunity to learn how to play a brass instrument with Tameside music service. Music lessons are every Monday. If your child would like to take their brass instrument home to practice, a deposit can be paid to the office allowing them to take it home.

 

Computing: Computing systems and networks

This term the children will develop learn about online safety.

 

Forest School

Children in Boost Group have the fantastic opportunity to take part in Forest Schooling each Friday. We venture out in all sorts of weather conditions and therefore children should have waterproof and warm clothing and sturdy footwear.

 

Other Support

To help support each child’s individual needs, children may take part in other activities to support their needs. These may include Zones of Regulation, speech and language, motor skills, lego therapy, social skills, memory skills or support with specific life skills.

 

Home Reading:

We ask that you read with your child as often as possible and sign their reading record a minimum of twice weekly in line with school policy. We will check reading records and change reading books every Friday. We monitor reading, homework and PE kits as part of our Assertive Mentoring Scheme.

 

Homework

Homework will be issued each Thursday and should be completed each week and handed in by the following Tuesday to achieve GREEN for Homework in Assertive Mentoring. If it is handed it in on Wednesday or Thursday you will achieve YELLOW. If you don’t hand your homework in you will be RED for that week.

 

Other important information:

Please ensure your child’s name is clearly written in all your school uniform.

Children have a login for Active Learn, Readingeggs, Spellingshed and Times Table Rockstars. Each of these will help support your child’s learning and can be used at home. Please ask an adult if you lose or forget your login.

 

KEEP IN TOUCH!

Parents & Carers are always very welcome to call in to discuss any aspect of their child’s learning, any other area of their school life or just to say ‘hello’.

If there is anything you need, or any help we can give you with anything, please let us know by either messaging on Google Classroom or speaking to us.

We are available after school, except on Wednesdays because that’s when we have our Staff Meeting. If a matter is urgent, you can always speak to an adult in the morning.

Thank you for your continued support.

 

Boost Group Team

Mrs Appleton-Jones, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Holt, Miss Newton and Mrs Farrington

 

Welcome to Corrie!

Everyone in the Reception Team are incredibly excited to see you all again and to start a wonderful year off together.

The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

• A school uniform and shoes
• A water bottle
• A coat
• A pair of wellies
• A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
• A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

What learning will your child be exploring this half term?

This half term the focus is developing the children’s social and emotional development.

This involves helping children to develop a sense of seeing themselves as a valuable individual, build constructive and respectful relationships, express their feelings and consider the feelings of others, regulate behaviour accordingly, work and play cooperatively and take turns with others, give focused attention to what the teacher says.

The Topic this term is All About Me!

During the topic, we will be thinking about what we look like and how we are similar and different. We will be thinking about our families and how families are all different. The children will be drawing, writing and painting pictures of themselves and using ICT to record and describe themselves. The children will be reading and sharing lots of fiction and non- fiction books on ourselves. They will be drawing pictures and we will record the children sharing their family experiences.

 

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring numbers to 5, comparing groups within 5, exploring 2D and 3D shapes, change within 5, number bonds within 5 and space.

 

Literacy

As part of our ‘All About Me’ Topic we will be exploring a variety of texts;

• The Colour Monster Goes to School by Anna Llenas
• Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival
• What I Like About Me by Allia Zobel Nolan
• Making Faces by Nick Butterworth
• Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy

Click some of the book covers to listen to them!

Before the end of the Half Term we will begin our ‘Autumn’ Topic and explore the texts;

• Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
•  After the Storm by Nick Butterworth
• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

The key skills they will begin to develop through this area of learning are,

• Joining in with repeated refrains in stories
• Modelling social phrases throughout the day.
• Asking and answering ‘who’ questions’
• 1:1 discussions
• Retelling a familiar story ‘5 Minutes Peace’
• Performing Poetry
• Use of prosody
• Engage in non-fiction books.
• Listen to and talk about selected non-fiction to develop a deep familiarity with new knowledge and vocabulary.
• Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
• Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
• Learn rhymes and songs
• Develop social phrases.
• Engage in story times
• Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them
• Blend sounds into words
• Read a few common exception words
• Sequencing
• Form lower case letters accurately – the straight line family (iltj), the coat hanger family (coadgqe)
• Ordering the letters in my name and name writing
• Assign meaning to my writing
• Writing initial sounds and CVC words
• Spell words by identifying the sounds
• Writing simple phrases or captions

 

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,

• Happy Hand Washing Song
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Five Little Ducks
• 5 Little Pumpkins
• One Potato, Two Potatoes
• Rain, Rain Go Away
• What’s the Weather?

 

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be learning the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the phase two key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Super Sounds and Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

 

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

 

Learning at Home

For your child’s homework each week, they will bring home a library book to share with you.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu below. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week. Here’s our current Homework Menu – All About Me! Reception Autumn 1 Homework Menu

 

Are you looking forward to September too like us?

Many of you on our transition days were keen to find out how you can support child over the summer in preparation for September. Here’s a helpful page the BBC have put together that you may find useful – from articles, videos and resources to support you and your child with starting primary school.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/collections/starting-primary-school/1

 

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Mrs Baguley, Miss Wrigley, Mrs Hartigan and Miss Ainscough