Welcome to Willow class. We are a Reception class. 

Miss Phipps is the teacher in this class. Mrs Bradley is our teaching assistant. Mrs Bell is the Early Years Lead Teacher.

Autumn Term                       

Useful Information

Our PE day this term is Monday. Please ensure you come to school in outdoor PE kits on this day. Our PE unit for this term is Moving - Walking and Jumping. The children will learn how to move safely around our hall and outdoors and various different obstacles and other children. 

This half term's learning

• In Science we will focus on the seasonal changes and what is happening around us. We will learning about ourselves and our bodies and how we use them. We will learn how we use our senses to help us explore and to keep us safe. We will also learn how to keep ourselves safe while we are at school. 
• In phonics we will be learning the first 20 phonemes(sounds) and graphemes(how to write and recognise them).
• In English our texts this term explore starting school, emotions and autumn themes.
• In Maths we will learning numbers to 5 and how to make, order, group and recognise them and quickly recognise amounts of up to 5 without counting. This is called subitising.
• In Art we will be painting portraits of ourselves.

Lots of time will be spent on settling in and learning school rules and routines.

Useful websites

Letters and Sounds  A complete Phonics resource to support children (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

Websites for Phonics games:

•     Phonics Play - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
•     Phonic Bloom - https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
•     Topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds