EYFS 2025 - 2026
Mrs Totterdale
Mrs Darlington
Mrs Lawrence-Rimmer
Welcome to Reception Class!
Welcome to Reception Class, we are so excited to welcome you to your first term at St Clements! We will be working hard on getting to know our new friends, the routines of school and having lots of fun together!
This term we will be starting our phonics and reading journey, covering phase 2 through our scheme Ready Steady Phonics. We will also begin to develop our maths skills deepening our understanding of numbers 1 to 5, through Mastery in Number. In literacy we will be focussing on writing simple words and captions using our phonic learning, as well as developing vocabulary. Our first focus text will be 'The Friendship Bench'. Our second focus text will be 'Amazing'. These texts will help us to think about making new friends and how special we all are!
Our topics for this half term will compliment our literacy work and be based around friendship and ourselves. During our topics this half term the children will be focusing on the parts of the EYFS curriculum that link to history and art. We will investigate mark making using different media, before moving on to simple observational drawing. Linking to our work on how we are all special we will then create our own self portraits. Following on from this we will think about how we have changed over time from a baby until the present, before creating our own family trees, thinking about who is special to us.
Our RE topic this half term will be 'Creation and Covenant'. We will be hearing the story of how God made our world.We will be thinking about thanking God for all the gifts he gave us in the world, including ourselves. We will hear and understand how we are all different and special, that God loves us all. Linking to our work on families we will understand we are all a part of God's family and can join this family through Baptism.
Please check your child's Seesaw account for updates on their individual learning and photos and videos of all the excting things they have been doing in school. All messages for parents and information about our class and curriculum will also be shared with you on Seesaw.
If you have any concerns or questions then please speak to us at the beginning or end of the day, email the school office or telephone Mrs Marnell to make an appointment.
Mrs Totterdale - Class Teacher