Reception Oak Class 2025 - 2026

Support Staff: Mrs Bell, Mrs Corkish & Mrs Crawford

Mrs Cullen	Mrs Wright	Mrs Bell	Mrs Crawford	Mrs Corkish

Curriculum Information for Autumn 1

Talk 4 Writing

In Autumn 1, we will learn the traditional tale - 'The Gingerbread Man' which looks at patterns in a journey story.

Our key themes when learning about this story will be making the right choices, being truthful and honest, and families. 

We will encourage children to orally retell stories and begin to learn a sequence of events by using key pictures in a story map style. 

The books in Autumn term that will be used to develop our story language are:

Thumbelina - Hans Christian Anderson
The Naughty Bus - Jan Oke
The Colour Monster goes to School - Anna Llenas

Maths -

This half term we will be focusing on 1:1 correspondence and recognition of the numbers 1-10 in order. At Whitby Heath, we use a mastery approach designed by NCETM and will be focusing on 'Cardinality and Counting' in the coming weeks. For more information, please see the link below:

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/ey-cardinality-and-counting/

Topics - 

During Autumn 1, we will be learning all of our important rules and routines in class. We will spend time on each of the school values, as well as discussing our own feelings through the story 'The Colour Monster' and learning techniques for Self-Regulation. The children will be introduced to carpet time learning for phonics, maths and topic using our special puppets Fred, Maurice and the new word bird.

Topics we may also explore include:

Homes and Families

Our Pets

Autumn (season)

Important Information:

PE - Reception will have their PE sessions on Tuesday

PE Uniform: 

• Team colour t-shirt
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. 

All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has a designated day when they will be listened to reading, and any 'Strive for Five' dojos they have earned will be awarded. These will be reviewed on the following days.

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the EYFS team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Dough Disco
• Phonics
• Letter Formation