Welcome to The Adventurers Class!

Mr Brazier (Class Teacher) and Mrs Edwards (Specialist TA)

     

P.E. days this half term are on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

 

Autumn 1 - Half Term:

🍂 Reception Class - Autumn 1 🍂

'All About Us'

Welcome to a wonderful new school year!

This half term our theme is "All About Us". We will be spending lots of time getting to know each other, celebrating what makes us special, and learning about our families, friends and school community. Through stories, play and hands-on activities, we will be building relationships and settling into Reception life.

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📚 Literacy

We will be sharing and enjoying the following stories:

🌈 The Colour Monster - Anna Llenas
🏫 The Colour Monster Goes to School - Anna Llenas
❤️ Hair Love - Matthew A. Cherry
🐷 The Three Little Pigs
🌲 The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson

Through these texts, children will explore emotions, friendships, families, storytelling, vocabulary and early reading and writing skills.

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🔢 Maths

Numbers All Around Us

We will be exploring numbers in our everyday lives, including:

✅ Our age
✅ Door numbers
✅ Birthdays
✅ Numbers in the environment
✅ Counting and recognising numbers

Children will develop confidence with counting, number recognition and early mathematical language.

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🔬 Science

Us and Our Bodies

We will learn about:

👀 Our senses
🖐️ Different parts of the body
❤️ How our bodies help us every day
😊 Looking after ourselves and staying healthy

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🏃 PE

Fundamental Movement Skills

We will practise:

🏃 Running
🦘 Jumping
🎯 Throwing and catching
⚖️ Balancing
🤸 Moving safely and confidently in different ways

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⏳ History

Our Family Trees

We will discover:

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Who is in our family
📸 Special family memories
🌳 How families are unique and special
🕰️ The past and present through our own lives

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🎵 Music

Animal Chants and Songs

Children will enjoy:

🐶 Singing songs about animals
🦁 Joining in with chants and rhymes
🥁 Keeping a steady beat
🎶 Exploring rhythm and musical expression

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🏡 How You Can Help at Home

• Talk about your family and share family photographs.
• Practise counting objects and spotting numbers in the environment.
• Read stories together every day.
• Encourage your child to talk about their feelings and emotions.
• Sing nursery rhymes and favourite songs together.

We are looking forward to an exciting start to Reception and getting to know all of our wonderful children and families! 🌟🍎✨

Wow Moments:

If your child achieves something wonderful at home or out and about then why not let us know - tell us what your child has done ( you can include photos/videos if you wish) and upload it to Tapestry or Google Classroom or alternatively you can email us at adventurers@eureka.derbyshire.sch.uk.  This could be anything; learning to ride a bike, looking after a poorly relative, reading or telling a story on their own, building something wonderful out of Lego or even completing a computer game.

We will respond to the email and when your child starts school we will add these moments to their electronic learning journey on Tapestry.

Adventurers' Remote Home Learning Platform

Tapestry...

 

Information

Useful Websites

If you are unsure of your username and password please ask a member of staff and we will be happy to help.

Cbeebies Make and Colour - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes

RM Easimaths - https://www.rmeasimaths.com

Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk  (Username: eureka -  password:  passpass)

Maths Chase - https://www.mathschase.com/

Bug Club - https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

 

Our School Year: