Rayne Primary and Nursery School

Teacher: Mrs White

LSA: Mrs Rawlings (am & pm) & Mrs Christian (am)

Spring Term News!

Reading

The children will continue to be read with 1:1 a minimum of twice each week this term, however this will now be once with their teacher and once with an LSA. Only the class teacher will be giving new sounds and words so this will give children an opportunity to consolidate their learning.

Physical Development

Physical development is promoted throughout the continuous provision in our setting. Gross motor skills are developed throughout the outdoor areas with activities such as digging in sand or mud, hoops, balancing apparatus and big building blocks. Fine motor development is developed both inside and out, with various malleable materials, beads, threading and construction equipment available. The children also benefit from a focussed P.E session each week run by a P.E specialist.

Communication and Language

This half term we will continue to work on speaking and listening. Children are encouraged to speak in full sentences at all times, giving eye contact and listening to responses. They each have a Learning Partner who they speak with during directed lessons who they practise these skills with formally. We will be concentrating on developing our understanding of language used to question. Children will be encouraged to use a range of questions stems (such as who, what, where, why, how, does, should).

Mathematics

The class have been exploring pattern and describing 2d flat shapes and 3d shapes. We aim to give the children a ‘Mastery Understanding’ of numbers within 20 by the end of Reception, with children confident and fluent in their recall and able to select resources to support them whenever needed. We are concentrating on addition and subtraction within 10 and one more and one less within 20 this half term. In our quick Maths Meeting sessions, we will continue to explore and describe 3d shape, recap calendar, pattern and will also introduce money. Letting your child explore the coins in your purse, and pay for things when out and about will be a great way to support your child at home. 

Literacy

In phonics, we will be honing our ears to hear adjacent consonants and learning skills such as breaking up longer words in two. We will continue to share books, poems, rhymes and songs each day and will be learning some of these off by heart. Thank you very much for continuing to support your child’s progress by reading 5 times a week with them.

In writing, we are beginning to write sentences and focussing on leaving gaps between words and writing words we cannot sound out!

Understanding the World

Forest School sessions will continue each week this term and will be looking at the changes in our environment throughout the seasons. We are also hoping for various visitors to share their job roles with the class. We ask parents to send in pictures of their children either on holiday or maybe joining in with family celebrations or customs for them to talk about with the class.

Expressive Arts and Design

Our Creation Station enables children to use our materials to create whatever they wish! We will be teaching children different ways of joining this term in order to progress their growing skills in this area. If you have any (small) clean cardboard, plastic or other recycling, we need a constant flow to help us keep up with the demand! The children will be encouraged to create their own Superhero props and costumes and will be using their developing skills with scissors and with attaching materials to do this.