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 Spring term 2025!
Happy New Year to you all, and welcome to the Spring term 2026! This term we have lots of fun learning planned. This half term, our theme is ‘Where In the World’ and we are going to be explorers discovering new places, different cultures and different animals! We will start the half term by thinking about journeys and transport, we will join in with the RSPB’s Big School’s Birdwatch and think about some of the epic journeys that some birds undertake, before heading to the Polar regions and learning all about Penguins in time for Penguin Awareness Day. Reception children will have the opportunity to enrich their learning about Birds, and Polar regions on our trip to Banham Zoo on the 27th January. We also plan to celebrate the Lunar New Year and then after half-term we will look a little closer to home exploring different parts of the UK, as well as discovering some traditional tales and favourite stories with our over-arching theme of ‘Tell Me a Story’.
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 aim 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 1/2 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. All children will have PE on a Thursday afternoon, please ensure that your child has suitable shoes on this day. We will encourage Reception children to change into their PE kits so please do leave this in school if possible. Most importantly, please ensure that everything is named!
Reception children will continue to bring home a reading book linked to phonics learning as well as a reading for pleasure book. There are of course hundreds of other books to enjoy with your child and I absolutely encourage as much reading and storytelling as possible, but please do read the school reading book too - by embedding their phonics learning and improving reading fluency we are creating the best foundations for all future learning.
This promises to be a fun-filled, busy term! Please do use Class Dojo to contact me if you have any questions or concerns that you wish to discuss.
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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