Dear Parents and carers, Term: Autumn 2
Our first half term has flown by! Firstly thank you for your continued support during these unprecedented times. The children have settled in well and we are so proud of their growing friendships, and how well they have learnt their new routines and expectations of the setting. The children are enjoying their daily math and phonic sessions. It is always a pleasure to see how well children are retaining the sounds taught. We thank you for your support at home and all of the work that you have been completing. Keep practicing the sounds, Fred talk and green words at home and sharing stories together. Please email us at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk or share Parent Postcards using Evidence Me. We love reading all about your achievements at home!
This half term we will be focusing on Celebrations and Festivals. We will be reading a selection of stories during our topic sessions. These stories will include: Funny Bones, Room on a Broom, Elmer, Monster’s Bedtime, Whatever Next, Aliens Love Underpants and Stickman. We will also be looking at celebrations, including Diwali, Bonfire Night, birthdays and Christmas. Below are some of the things we will be focusing on this term.
Communication and Language
We will be encouraging the children to speak in full sentences to express themselves. We will be using our talk to organise, sequence and clarify our thinking, ideas, feelings and events. Providing children with experiences such as our Diwali workshop and bonfire experience, we will recount these experiences.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will continue to work on our expectations in the setting as well as turn taking and sharing resources, revisiting them on a regular basis. The children will be encouraged to take into account what others say and their ideas within their play.
Physical Development
This term there will be a big focus on fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles for writing. These are all of the ‘fiddly’ activities you will see around the classrooms, such as threading, using tweezers, cutting etc. Of course we will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas and during our PE lessons.
Maths
We will continue with our number of the week, working up to ten at the end of term. Perhaps you could go on a number hunt at home or out and about. The children will work on number recognition and representing the number in different ways. This will deepen the children’s number sense and basic maths skills. We will also be finding one more or less than a given number and combining two groups of objects to find the total. We will start looking at shapes, money and repeated patterns too.
Literacy
We will continue with our daily RWI lessons, focusing on learning and reading new sounds. We have begun using magnetic boards to practice our blending skills during RWI lessons. There will be lots of Fred Talk and green word practice too. We will be applying our phonics knowledge both within our play and in our topic lessons, writing potions, shopping lists, invitations, lists and labelling pictures. Initially our focus is to hear and write the initial sound in words, but we will be practising segmenting CVC words as well. Each week we will share the phonic sounds taught using our Virtual RWI classroom through the Parents Share feature of Evidence Me.
Key Dates
Messages:
Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times.
All uniform should be labelled with your child’s name.
Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken.
We ask that your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day each week so it can be changed and your child read with.
If you have any questions or concerns please speak to your class teacher. If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
Kind regards,
The Reception Team
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