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Mrs Wilcockson (Acorns) & Mrs Jones (Saplings) - Class Teachers

Other staff your child may talk about: Mrs Dunne, Mrs McCabe, Miss Pratt.

Our Curriculum

In Reception we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) a curricululum which sets out the standards which all Early Years settings must provide. Learning is split into....

EQUIPMENT YOUR CHILD WILL NEED FOR SCHOOL

Please send in the following items everyday to make sure your child is ready for their school day.......

Remember your book bag every day. We can't send home books or homework without it! Please do not put drinks bottles into bookbags as they leak onto our books and create water damage.	Send your child with a water bottle daily, clearly labelled with their name. We encourage healthy behaviours in school, this means sending your child with water in their bottle. Please do not send energy drinks or similar, they are not appropriate for school and an alternative of water will be offered instead.	Spare clothes can be sent in a bag, clearly labelled with your child's name. These are useful in event of an accident and can remain on your child's peg until they need changing.

MESSY AGAIN......

We apologise in advance, your child will be messy quite a lot! This is becasue they are so busy each day they are with us.

You can't have done nothing today......

Your child is not alone in saying this! Tired children are not always interested in sharing to begin with. Sometimes they simply forget! In time, as they as school becomes 'normal' they will share.

Click on this link for some great information to help you at the end of a day

https://edasd.co.uk/why-does-my-child-say-theyve-done-nothing-today/

PHONICS

We also teach daily phonics sessions and weekly guided reading sessions, led by our chosen scheme 'Little Wandle'. 

Click the image above to see how we see and hear the phase 2 sounds learnt in Autumn term 1	Click the image above to see how we see and hear the phase 2 sounds learnt in Autumn term 2	Click the image above to see how we see and hear the phase 3 sounds learnt in Spring term 1

Here are some links that may help you to understnd how we teach reading and phonics.
Click the image below - scroll to the correct section and click download.

How we say the sounds in each phase. Click the image below - scroll to the correct section and click download.

READING FOR PLEASURE

WOODLANDS

Often on Thursday afternoons, the children get the chance to go into woodland area. Children should come to school in their uniform. Children can bring a bag of spare clothes into school which they will change into before we visit the woodlands - this should contain: spare trousers and wellies.

P.E

Each Friday morning both classes have a P.E session. For this your child will need to come to school dressed in their P.E clothes. PE kits are made up of: trainers, red t-shirts, black shorts or joggers and a hoodie (grey with our school logo).

MATHS
At school we have a short maths learning session daily. We use White Rose Maths and Mastering Number as our schemes. Children mainly learn through play.

Here are some fun but educational games that you can let your child use to practice our maths and computing at home.
There are no in-app purchases or adverts once you access the game.

CLICK THE IMAGE TO ACCESS THE GAME

ENGLISH: taught through Drawing Club

We follow an exciting scheme that teaches motor skills and pencil control through drawing, progressing into writing words and then onto short sentences. We become familiar with the language of stories and vocabulary associated with story telling. Most of all, we aim to instill our love of stories, books and reading, into our youngest learners at Willow Wood. 

Over the school year your child will hear a variety of traditional tales, modern stories and you may even hear them talk about older cartoon characters, created way before their time! All of these are used to: enrich vocabulary, develop familiarity of story structure, to support memory and to develop learners who LOVE stories!

Here are some examples of what we will be loooking at....

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