Bridgetown Primary School
Caring, Learning, Succeeding
Reception
Sports Day 2021
Summer Forest School
Today we made Forest School crowns! We looked for interesting pieces of nature in our amazing forest school, and then stuck them onto our crown. We had lots of fun, and we were very proud of our finished result!
Summer 1
Our topic this half term is Space! We are excited to lift off in our new topic this half term. Please see the document below for an overview of our learning this half term.
| Week | Phonics | English | Maths | Topic |
| 1 | Phase 4 Part 1 | Whatever Next! Jill Murphy Talk 4 Writing Unit: Imitate Read the story, learn a simplified version of the text, vocab check new words, box up the main parts of the story (beginning, middle, end) Innovate Change the main character, change the friend, and what they did on the moon. Shared write a new version of the text Invent Children invent their own version of the story (will need to work in small groups or 1:1). Children think of their own character and sentences to write. Outcome: Children to have recorded their own story. | PowerMaths Unit 11 shape and space, Week 10: 2D shape | What do you already know about space? Rocket launches |
| 2 | PowerMaths Unit 12 Exploring Pattern | Space Art using mixed media | ||
| 3 | PowerMaths Unit 12 Exploring Complex Pattern | Space themed small world play | ||
| 4 | Phase 4 Part 2 | Factual Writing Man on the Moon Simon Bartram
True and false sentences. Descriptive vocabulary. Children to write simple sentences about planets. Outcome: Children to have recorded their mini planet book. | PowerMaths Unit 13 Adding by counting on | Astronaut movement games |
| 5 | PowerMaths Unit 13 Taking away by counting back | What can you see at nighttime? | ||
| 6 | Beegu Alexis Deacon How did Begu feel at different parts of the story? Do you think Begu will come back to Earth? Outcome: Children are able to speak about how the character is feeling | PowerMaths Unit 14 Counting to and from 20 | Aliens! |
Welcome back Reception!
We are delighted to have our Sparrows and Robins back in school.
Please find a link to our topic overview for Spring 2.
Spring 2
Autumn 2
This half term in Reception, we are focusing on celebrations! We will be thinking about what we celebrate and how, as well as thinking about how other people celebrate. Please take a look at our upcoming half term in Reception:
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Reception Autumn 2 2020 R Knight and K Holt |
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Phonics |
Reading & Writing |
Maths |
Topic related activities |
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Week 1 Bonfire Night
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Letters and Sounds Phase 2 Set 5 h, b, f, ff |
Sparks in the Sky Story Stimulus and vocab focus CVC words for fireworks eg. pop |
PowerMaths Unit 3 Comparing groups within 5 |
Spray chalk fireworks outside Painting firework pictures Make a conker run using conkers and tubing ‘Autumn Soup’ in the mud kitchen Autumn theme home corner |
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Week 2 & 3 Diwali
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Letters and Sounds Phase 2 Set 5 l, ll, ss |
Rama and Sita Introduce and read the story Learn the story using T4W story map
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Create Indian restaurant role play Make Diva lamps out of quick dry clay Create a Diwali dance to retell the Rama and Sita story Create Mehndi hand patterns using fine brush and black paint Create Rangoli patterns Rama and Sita puppets |
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Set 6 j, v, w, x |
PowerMaths Unit 4 Change within 5 |
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Week 4 & 5 The Gruffalo and Road Safety
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Set 7 y, z, zz, qu |
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Talk about nocturnal animals Owl Babies Martin Waddell? |
Role play area – forest Wanted posters Gruffalo body parts Focus on each of the animals and their habitat
Role play area – outdoors transformed into police office Making roads and paths outside Making a road safety poster Use Warwickshire activity resources |
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, ng |
PowerMaths Unit 5 Time |
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Week 6 & 7 The Stick Man
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Vowel digraphs ai, ee, igh, oa, |
The Stick Man Julia Donaldson
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PowerMaths Assessment of Teaching Block A and revisit |
Rehearse and perform Christmas production Think about how Christmas is celebrated by others Make Christmas gifts to give to others Create a Christmas shop and post office in role play, wrapping and weighing parcels Think about the seasons, months of the year, days of the week, and hours of the day |
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Vowel digraphs oo, ar, or, ur |
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Autumn 1
Welcome to our Reception class page! We will post an overview of our learning for each half term, to give you an idea of what our school day looks like. We will also sometimes post exciting photos and snippets of our days here in Sparrows and Robins class.
Here is an overview for the first Autumn term.
| Week | Phonics | Reading and Writing | Maths | Topic related activities |
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Phase 1 Sounds all around us |
We're Going on a Bear Hunt Talk 4 Writing unit
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Number recognition and shape (baseline assessments) | Home corner |
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Phase 1 Rhyming words |
Bear cave | ||
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Phase 1 Onset and initial sounds |
PowerMaths introduction Week of Inspirational Maths Activities |
Self portraits | |
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Phase 2 s a t p |
Counting to 1, 2 and 3 |
Making new friends |
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Phase 2 i n m d |
Mog and the VET | Counting to 4 | Role play vets |
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Phase 2 g o c k |
Counting to 5 | Making animal homes | |
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Phase 2 ck e u r |
Sorting into 2 groups | Introduction to forest school | |
An evening of phonics, reading and writing...
Thank you to everyone that managed to join us (virtually) for our evening on phonics, reading and writing. If you were unable to attend, please find a recording of the evening below.
Best wishes,
Miss Knight, Mrs Holt and Mrs Pinkerton.
This short video clip demonstrates how the different phonemes should be correctly pronounced:
