Welcome to Willow Class

Staff

Mrs Taylor teaches on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mrs Miskell-Dodd teaches on a Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Tiplady (TA) is with Willow every morning

Mrs Price is with Willow each afternoon.

Daily Routine

8:55-

9:109.50-10.10

10.15-

10.30

10.30-

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12.00-

1.001.00-2.00 2.00-2.50

3.00-

3.10

Monday

AssemblyLiteracy

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Maths focus

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Topic Focus and REHome time

Song

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Maths focus

PE Music Home time

Story

Wednesday

PhonicsLiteracy

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Welly WednesdayPrayer

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Friday Celebratio

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Assembly

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Continuous provision is provided throughout the school day

Term 2 drop off

As of Term 2 (after the Autumn half term break), the children will line up by the Outdoor Learning Area gate at 8:45 when the whistle is blown.

Please encourage your child to line up without you and come straight in.

This routine will make things much easier in the long run we promise!

Every day your child will need…

• Labelled PE kits

• Labelled water bottle

• Labelled spare clothes (accidents do happen)

• Lunch box or lunch booked

• Snack (or have school fruit)

• Book bags (we aim to change books each day).

Home Learning

At this stage Reception children are not given any homework because READING EVERY DAY is so important, especially at this stage in your child’s life.

Please read/share/ enjoy a book (or a few pages even) every single day. It really helps!

Tapestry Progression from Acorns

GLOD

Termly updates

Launching next week

We also use a range of assessments and observations in addition to Tapestry.

Phonics

Jolly Phonics scheme

Jolly grammar

http://jollylearning.co.uk/overview-about-jolly-phonics/

Forming letters (see mat and letter formation script)

Handwriting

We use the scheme Read, Write, Incfor formation of letters.

See the photocopied sheets provided.

Maths

Percy the Penguin Reasoning

Friday Celebration Assembly

Celebration assembly is each Friday morning from 9am. It usually lasts for half an hour. You are more than welcome to join us as and when you can.

The children will share as a class or small group each week. We ensure that all children are offered the opportunity to share throughout the year.

A star of the week is announced, again we ensure that all children are noticed for positive behaviour/learning throughout the year which we link to our school values.

Bertie Bug

We have a huge focus on reading in school. To encourage children to share our love of learning we have a class ‘reading bug’ called Bertie and a reading journal.

When it is your child’s turn to have Bertieplease write in the journal, focusing on the books that you have shared over the weekend.

Please don’t worry about how much to write etc. If you have a busy weekend just write in the books you share.

Any questions?