Welcome to St. Anne’s Class
Teacher: Miss Hargrove
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Moore
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
This half term in Reception our theme is ‘Water’. We will be exploring the Natural World and observing how some living things grow and change over time.
We are making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants. We are planting some seeds and learning what they need to live. We have learnt that water is something all living things need to survive.
This term we will also learn about farms, the weather, the water cycle and other places we can find water. The children have been very interested in investigating water outside and observing how it moves and changes in different temperatures.
In Phonics we are now moving onto Phase 4. We will be reading longer words with adjacent consonants and words with endings such as -ed, -ing and -est. We will also be learning a new set of tricky words.
In our Literacy work we have been reading some traditional tales. The children have shown a great interest in role playing and retelling these stories and this has led to some brilliant speaking and writing in class. We are becoming more independent when writing, practising our letter formations and segmenting to spell words. Recently we sequenced our ideas to retell the beginning, middle and end of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
In Maths, we have been exploring the composition of 11-20. We are building numbers to 20 – recognising the pattern that they are ten and some more. Children will look at different representations of the numbers 11-20, as well as verbally counting past twenty.
As this term continues, we will work on addition and subtraction with some simple number sentences. Then we will revisit 2D and 3D shapes to explore the results of manipulating and rotating shapes.
After a superb Easter topic, our next RE unit this term is called ‘The Ends of the Earth’. In this RE unit we will be learning about Pentecost and the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit. We will talk about going to the parish church and why it is a special place for Christians. In our class worship we are learning to make the sign of the cross and to say some simple prayers.
Curriculum:
Reception Overview LTP 2025 26
EYFS Timetable 2025 26 Pentecost 1
EYFS Maths Long Term Plan 2025 26
Parent Letters and Information:
Little Wandle Programme Overview Reception And Year 1
Pronunciation Guide Autumn 1 (1)
Pronunciation Guide Autumn 2 1 (1)
For videos on how to pronounce phonemes correctly please visit: https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents
