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 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.
Welcome to the Summer term 2026!
This half term our over-arching theme is ‘Let’s Grow’, we will be learning about where our food comes from and growing flowers, fruit and vegetables 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 metamorphosis.
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 hope to enrich this learning with a trip for Reception children to SEA LIFE in Great Yarmouth – we will confirm the date as soon as we are able to, and 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 the 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 Phonics (phase 2 for Pre-School 2, phase 1 for Pre-School 1), 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. Reception will have PE on a Thursday afternoon – please send in PE kits to change into, they can be left in school in their spare clothes bags. We are also introducing a second PE session for all children on a Monday afternoon when we will make use of the bikes and ride-ons, so please ensure children have suitable clothing and shoes on this day.
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
Important things to remember
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Useful Information!Please send your child in with a water bottle and a coat every day - the weather can be changeable and our outdoor provision is almost always available to the children. They should also have a change of clothes in school to allow for any mishaps or particularly messy play, as well as sensible shoes for running about on the playground.
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