Summer 2
Published 13/07/23, by Hana Mehmet
Understanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design
This term, our topic has been ‘Journeys’ and we have enjoy
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Published 24/03/23, by Hana MehmetUnderstanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design
Our topic this term is ‘Our World’, and we have been learning about where we live and different cultures. First, we looked at space, and the solar system, then focused on Earth. We had a go at using Google Maps to look at planets. Next, the children visited the Olympic Park and looked at a building designed by Zaha Hadid, our significant person. Finally, we experienced International Week, where we represented China and Bangladesh, and a mini world experience, where we visited another class. We had fun learning a dance routine with some traditional moves from the countries we represented, created some artwork, and even got the chance to perform for our dance parents.
Literacy
We’ve been very busy exploring different skills linked to our topic “our world”, this term. For literacy, we’ve been using our Curwen core skills such as communication, resilience and reflection to ask different questions about books we’ve read and learning we’ve done. In addition, we’ve been using our phonics sounds to write or mark-make about different planets, countries and habitats. During International Week, we created our fact files and explored other non-fiction books to explore the countries China and Bangladesh. We also had lots of fun on World Book Day, celebrating our favourite books by presenting our sandwich boards to our teachers and friends.Maths
This term, we have been learning many mathematical skills and words that we can use daily. For example, we have learnt about weight, the difference between heavy and light, and how to measure it with different scales. We have been focusing on finding one more and one less of numbers using our fingers, different objects and number lines. We also learnt how to use 3D shapes to make models by talking about the properties of shapes and using their names, just like our significant person Zaha Hadid does when she designs buildings. We had lots of fun thinking about patterns with our friends.
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Published 27/01/23, by Hana MehmetUnderstanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design
We have had so much fun this term in Reception. In our new topic, ‘My stories,’ we have been learning about authors and illustrators and how stories are structured. We used the story boxes we made at home with our family to introduce the topic and present our favourite stories to our friends and teachers. We used our communication and language skills to talk about what parts of the stories we liked and who our favourite characters were. Furthermore, we had a special visit from people from Stratford Discovery Centre, and we really enjoyed listening to their stories. We also used Now Press Play to listen to the Three Little Pig story and act it out in our classes, pretending to be all the different characters.
Literacy
This term, we have been busy using various reading skills to explore our new topic, 'My Stories.' We created story boxes and used them to talk about our favourite stories. In phonics, we have been practising our set 1 and set 2 sounds and are now reading CVC words independently. We have been using our phonics sounds to label our pictures and attempting to write simple sentences. In reading time, we have been learning about poems and rhyming words. We used Julia Donaldson's books to learn about rhyming words and even learnt to recite the Gruffalo poem/song.
Maths
This term we have been busy using our different Curwen Core Skills, particularly our communication and resilience skills to help us with our maths! We have been practising how to add using cups and learning the actions to assist us with adding. We say “get ready to get some more” when we add. We have also been learning how to subtract using our cups, learning the actions and we learnt the phrase “get ready to take away”, when we work out our subtraction maths story. We are also learning how to subitise amounts, by looking at an amount and identifying them without having to count! This is a skill we are getting good at with plenty of practise. We are also learning how to use ordinal language and we related this to the Lunar New Year, and discussed the Legend of the Chinese Zodiac.
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Published 04/12/22, by Hana MehmetUnderstanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design We have had an impressive second term in Reception. Our topic this term is ‘People and Places’; we have been learning about different people in our community. We have learnt
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Published 14/10/22, by Nazmin ChoudhuryUnderstanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design The children have had an amazing start and settled in well with their new friends and teachers. Our topic this term is ‘Who am I’, and we have been learning about ourselves. The c
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Published 11/07/22, by Nazmin ChoudhuryUnderstanding the World and Expressive Arts and This term, our topic is 'Journeys,' and we have thoroughly enjoyed talking and sharing what we have learnt about transport and the different journeys we have been on. We took a journey toget
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Published 16/05/22, by Nazmin ChoudhuryUnderstanding the world and Expressive Arts and Design This term, our topic is ‘Growth’ and we have thoroughly enjoyed talking and sharing what we have learnt about living things, ourselves and decay. We have used our listening and co
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Published 22/03/22, by Nazmin ChoudhuryLiteracy This term we have been busy using our various reading skills to explore our new topic which is ‘Our World.’ We also used our questioning skills to explore our topic to enable us to investigate and explore this concept better.
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Published 28/01/22, by Nazmin ChoudhuryTopic This term our topic is ‘My stories’ and we have had an opportunity to share a range of stories and poems. In particular, we enjoyed some stories by the author Julia Donaldson and developed our communication and language skills th
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Published 06/12/21, by Nazmin ChoudhuryTopic We have had an amazing second term in Reception. Our topic this term is ‘People and Places’ and we have been learning about different people in our community. We have learnt about different celebrations such as Diwali, Guru Nanak
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Published 08/10/21, by Nazmin ChoudhuryTopic The children have had a fantastic first term in Reception and have settled in well with their new friends and teachers. Our topic this term is ‘Ourselves’ and we have been learning about our likes and dislikes. The ch
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Published 25/05/21, by Nazmin ChoudhuryThe Summer term in Reception was all about Growth and it started with our favourite little visitors so far: the ducklings! The children went to see the eggs while they were still in the incubators and then they got to meet the little ducklings a week
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Published 26/03/21, by Nazmin ChoudhuryWe were so happy to be back in school! After all the online learning it was nice to see our friends in person and be able to play and catch up with them. We have worked very hard to keep practising our sounds and we had a go at reading sentences with
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Published 11/12/20, by Nazmin ChoudhuryTopic This term has been a busy one for our Reception children. In topic, we have been learning about Celebrations and how all the people in the world have different traditions as well as our own traditions and celebrations. We read the stories of
