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Year R (EYFS) Parlick

 

Welcome to Parlick Class!

Mrs Robinson and Mrs Davis are the adults who teach, guide and care for us in the Reception Class (Foundation Stage). 

In Parlick Class we are busy everyday exploring, learning and developing new skills, primarily through play-based activities. We  encourage children to be curious and independent by providing an enriching and nurturing environment.

Early maths

Whilst a lot of maths involves numbers, it is important that children know how to use numbers in a variety of contexts and have an understanding of number that goes deeper than just rote counting. In Reception we use the NCETM government scheme along side further Shape, Space and Measure lessons. With lots of links to CBeebies ‘Numberblocks,’ the children love the activity-based approach and develop a thorough and deep understanding of how numbers can be built, used and manipulated. More information can be found here:

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/in-the-classroom/early-years/

Phonics

We start each day with a short phonics session. Phonics is a method that teaches reading and writing by using the 44 pure sounds, or phonemes, of the English language. At St. Wilfrid’s we use a program called Red Rose Letters and Sound and we will start by introducing the children to the sounds on the image below, the majority of which are known as Phase 2 sounds. As we learn to recognise and say more sounds, we will practise blending them together to read words, and segmenting them to write words. This will start off with simple consonant-vowel-consonant words such as c-a-t. Once the children are ready, we will move onto Phase 3 sounds which includes digraphs and  trigraphs (when two/three letters make up one sound such as ‘ch’). We also teach the children to read Phase 2, 3 and 4 tricky words – words that can’t be phonetically sounded out such as ‘the’.We continue to make references to phonics constantly throughout the day, for example, asking children to help sound out words when following recipe cards in our mud kitchen.

Curriculum

In Reception, we have designed a rich, varied curriculum based on the principles outlined in the 'Development Matters' document. Our curriculum is text based with a carefully selected reading spine that ensures children are exposed to a wide variety of cultures, ideas, stories and vocabulary. Each term we have a core theme from which we choose our Super Six books – a fairytale, a rhyming or repeated refrain book, a diversity book, a quality text that may introduce children to a new level of vocabulary, a wellbeing book and a miscellaneous book that we know the children will love. We focus on a book a week and centre our adult focussed learning on this. Within provision, children are also free to explore their own interests and ideas.

Please follow these links to view our Long Term Plan, which highlights the learning for each term, and our Progression Document that details what skills and knowledge children are expected to know after each half term.

Reception long term plan

St. Wilfrid’s Reception Progression of learning

Welly Wednesdays

We are so lucky to have fantastic grounds at our school, so every Wednesday we make the most of them and outside for the afternoon. We have a class set of wellies and waterproof coats and trousers for the children to wear and we enjoy all sorts of activities on our school field, in our nature area or sheltered in our outdoor classroom. We usually finish with some delicious hot chocolate.