Wren Chicks Class 

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Hello and welcome to Wren Chicks, our Pre-School / Reception Class.  Our teacher is Mrs Maurice. Our class TAs are Mrs Knight, Miss Hunt, Mrs Kent and Mrs Kerry and Mrs Strutt.

In our class children learn through play, following the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. We aim to provide learning that is fun and engaging, and that will challenge the children and support their development. We deliver our curriculum through both adult let input and child-initiated learning opportunities, following children's interests wherever possible and provide high quality interactions, engaging with children in their play in order to develop and deepen their learning opportunities. Underpinning all our learning sit the Characteristics of Effective Learning: Playing and Exploring, Active Learning and Creating and Thinking Critically. With these at our foundation we aim to support our children to become effective independent learners.  

Our learning journey begins with a focus on the Prime Areas of development: Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development. As we develop and our journey progresses, greater emphasis is put on the Specific Areas of learning: Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding The World and Expressive Arts and Design. During our time in Wren Class we move from taking our first teetering, brave steps into school, towards becoming confident learners in our Reception Year. 

Summer Term 2025 

Welcome to the Summer term 2025!  

This half term we will continue our ‘Let’s Grow’ theme, learning about where our food comes from, growing some of our own here in our lovely little garden area. We will also look at some very important helpers – minibeasts, bees and butterflies, and we hope to deepen our learning about lifecycles by watching caterpillars go through the process of metamorphoses. As we move into the second half-term, we will explore some hot environments such as jungles, rainforests and savannahs, before heading to the seaside and exploring our coastlines and seas, looking at fossils and dinosaurs and creatures under the sea.  

We have a trip to Bewilderwood planned for Reception children on Tuesday 20^th May which will be a lovely opportunity to enrich our forest school learning – if any parents would like to volunteer to come with us please let me know! 

As always, there will be an abundance of additional learning opportunities through play in continuous provision, as well as through adult-led input, key focus texts and following the children’s interests - where-ever they may take us! I will continue to send a weekly update each Monday on Class Dojo outlining the learning for forthcoming week – I hope you find this useful. 

The timetable for Reception children will remain as before with daily phonics, literacy and maths sessions, as well as opportunities for Understanding the World, RE, PSHE and Expressive Arts & Design delivered through provision and / or adult input across the week ensuring that all 7 areas of learning within the EYFS Framework are taught. Pre-School children will have some adult-led teaching for Phase 2 Phonics, Literacy and early maths, with the other areas being taught through our continuous and enhanced provision.  

We plan to use our Forest School area on a Wednesday afternoon, as well as occasionally during the rest of the week, so please do ensure that your child has a waterproof coat and wellies in school. It is also a good idea to send in summer hats and sunscreen as we do love to learn outside. All children will have PE on a Thursday afternoon – please ensure that your child has suitable shoes on this day, we encourage Reception children to come into school wearing their PE kits. 

On Fridays Reception children will receive a new reading book linked to the week’s phonics learning – please do read and re-read these books with your child and record in their reading record. We will also send home a reading for pleasure book for all children, including Pre-School children - the children will be able to choose this book themselves from our library selection in our classroom. 

This promises to be another fun-filled, busy term! Please do use Class Dojo to contact me if you have any questions or concerns that you wish to discuss, or phone to make an appointment if you would prefer an opportunity to discuss anything in more depth. 

Kindest regards,

Mrs Maurice

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