Welcome to
Leatherhead Trinity School & Nursery
‘Inspiring Learning, Unlocking the Future’Reception Ladybird and Bumblebee
Welcome to Reception
Have a look at our page to find out all the things that we are doing in Reception.
Click on the links below to find out about all the things we have been doing.
Adults in Ladybird Class
Class Teachers: Miss Cox & Mrs El Barky
Early Years Practitioner: Miss Rivet
Additional support LSA: Miss Clayton
Adults in Bumblebee Class
Class Teacher: Mrs MacDiarmid
Early Years Practitioner: Miss Benjamin
Welcome to Reception 2020 - 2021!
We are really excited to welcome your children into reception at Leatherhead Trinity School. Please see below some key information about our learning.
Please go to the 'Video Resource Centre' link to see our 'Welcome to Reception' presentation. This will give you more information about Reception this year!
Topic Map 2020 - 2021
During the year you can see our amazing learning by visiting our webpage. These are our topics for the year. These might change during the year depending on the children’s interests. Each topic is always linked a high quality text and we read widely around our topic. We start each 3 week topic by finding out what the children already know about it. Then we do an immersion activity (an exciting event linked to the learning e.g. a trip, a visitor, something exciting in class.) After that we involve the children in choosing what they would like in each area of the classroom to explore each topic so that the learning is child led wherever possible.
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Autumn 1 All about me |
Autumn 2 Let’s celebrate! |
Spring 1 Teddies, toys and trains |
Spring 2 A long time ago… |
Summer 1 Terrific transformations |
Summer 2 Wild and Wonderful |
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Homes/ myself |
People who help us |
Birthdays + other special celebrations |
Christmas |
Toys |
Linked to children’s interests based on toys brought in |
Castles |
Dinosaurs |
Life cycles Caterpillars |
Plants |
Farms |
Wild animals |
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Key books Little Red Riding Hood Goldilocks Mog and the VET Information books about people who help us |
Key books Kipper’s birthday Information books about other festivals/ celebrations The Christmas Story I went to see Santa |
Key books Kipper’s toybox Dogger That’s not my teddy Key stories linked to child interest |
Key books George + the dragon Shhh The Egg Dinosaurumpus Stomp dinosaur stomp Dinosaur poems |
Key books The very hungry caterpillar (and other books by Eric Carle) Minibeast poems Oliver’s vegetables Jack and the beanstalk |
Key books Farmer duck Rosie’s walk Animal information books Giraffes can’t dance Walking in the jungle |
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Timetables
Throughout the day, there are lots of opportunities for children to learn through play. Learning opportunities will be set up inside and outside for the children to free flow between. These cover all areas of the early years curriculum. There will also be opportunities for children to work in focus small group activities.
An example of a typical day
8.55 onwards (staggered starts) - Children come in and wash hands. Register and carpet session.
During the morning, children will all have a 15 -20 minute phonics session with an adult in a small group. They may also read with an adult 1:1. For the rest of the time they will have free flow and will choose their play which will all be linked to learning and supported by the adults in the session.
11.15am – Whole class maths session on the carpet.
11.30am – Lunch
12.30pm – Whole class carpet session. The learning focus of these changes daily.
During the afternoon, children will take part in small group activities that cover the whole curriculum. These last around 15 minutes. For the rest of the time they will have free flow and will choose their play, which will all be linked to learning and supported by the adults in the session.
2.40pm – Whole class story session.
3.10pm onwards (staggered collection)– End of the day
During one of the carpet sessions, children will have their snack.
Autumn term 2020 - Photos of our amazing learning!
Useful learning resources
Useful Phonics and Maths Websites
In reception we use RWI (Read Write Inc) to teach phonics. It is a fantastic way to teach children to read and write. For more information on RWI, please see the link below.
http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/
We held a phonics workshop in October 2019. Please see the links below for more information.
Red word book marks.
We use RWI to teach phonics at our school. As part of this scheme, words that cannot be sounded out are called 'red' words. (Words that can be sounded out are 'green' for go)
Below is a link to the red word book marks. If you feel your child has mastered the book mark they are currently working on please feel free to move on to the next one. Remember that your child needs to be able to read the words out of order before progressing to the next level.
PLEASE NOTE: The book marks are not in order in the document. The correct order is as follows:
Red, Green, Purple, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Grey
Highlights from 2019-2020
Our Amazing Learning at Home
We went to Windsor castle to start our new castles topic.
We love our superhero topic! We have been doing lots of superhero roleplay and making up our own superhero stories. We have been making masks. We read the story Supertato and have enjoyed retelling this. Look at our amazing superhero writing!
Our new topic is toys. We brought in our toys from home and talked about them. We have been drawing them, painting them, and writing about them too.
Our Christmas Nativity!
Autumn term learning in reception!
Miller's Ark Living Nativity
On Wednesday 27th November, Early Years and KS1 were visited by Miller's Ark Living Nativity. We were met by an assortment of animals from ducks to pigs and even two beautiful donkeys. The children learnt about the animals and how the Donkeys, in particular, link to the Christmas story. The children loved the hands on nature of the visit and were keen to talk about it when we got back to class. Ruby, in Bumblebee Class, said that her favourite animals were the goats, "they looked funny, like they were smiling!"
We had a visit from the firefighters linked to our 'people who help us topic'. They showed us all their uniform and equipment, and even let us have a go with the hose!
Our first few weeks in Reception September 2019
