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Branston Church of England Infant Academy
'The Best We Can Be'
Little Owl Class Reception
Welcome to Little Owl Class
Little Owl Class is our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Reception Class.
Within Little Owl Class we have two ‘nests’: Barn Owls and Tawny Owls.
In Little Owl Class we love to learn and particularly enjoy to explore the outdoors, finding and using natural resources to help us learn new things. We discover through play and use a range of brilliant stories to guide our learning. Our timetable is a combination of child initiated learning and adult led activities. Our wonderful indoor and outdoor learning environment provides endless learning opportunities; we can follow our own interests and access exciting weekly challenges. Adult led learning takes place in small groups or in our ‘nests’.
The EYFS Team
Teachers
Mrs Garrick - Barn Owls
Miss Heald - Tawny Owls
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Daw
Mrs Macdonald
Mrs Stephenson
Values
Our Church School Values
LOVE KINDNESS FORGIVENESS PERSEVERANCE RESPECT COMMUNITY
Our value this term is Community
We will learn about honesty through stories, role play and through discussions in our Class Worship and Talking Time sessions.
Term 3
What are we learning about?
OUR COMMUNITY
Week 1 & 2 ~ Winter
We will be thinking about Winter and other seasons by talking about the seasonal variations, go on a winter scavenger hunt and explore the idea of freezing and melting. We will be reading some lovely wintry stories to support our learning, such as ‘One Snowy Night’ by Nick Butterworth and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ by Julia Donaldson. We have some exciting tasks for the children, this being ‘penguin small world play’ and winter sensory writing.
Week 3 & 4 ~ Transport
In week 3 we will be thinking all things transport with wheels! We will make bus tickets and use these to role play a pretend bus ride. We will also be taking part in our very own traffic survey. In week 4 we start to think about water transport.
Week 5 & 6 ~ People who help us
We will be finding out about the important jobs of firefighters and police to name a few! We will be taking fingerprints and finding out about fire safety. We will also be asking the children what they would like to be when they are adults.
Visitors for week 5 & 6
If you / a family member would like to visit school to talk about your job
please inform Miss Heald or Mrs Garrick.
We would love to arrange this with you!
Useful Information for the new term.
We want to say thank you for reading with your child and writing about it in their reading diaries. Please read with your child 3 times a week and don’t forget about revisiting the phonics sounds.
- We spend lots of time outdoors in Winter! Please ensure that the children bring hats, scarves and gloves to school. We will do our best to make sure these items return home at the end of the day. We just ask you to please name the items.
- PE remains the same and takes place every Monday with Miss Heald / Mrs Garrick and Thursday with Premier Education. Please send your child to school in their PE kits.
- We have a daily time for a snack. We provide the children with a healthy snack in school. If you would like to bring in an additional/different fruity and healthy snack you are very welcome. We are a nut free school - Please make sure they are nut free!
Phonics – Phonics will take place every morning. The children will be put into their new groups during the first week.
Please enable your child to sit down and read their sounds with an adult at home several times each week. This will really help develop their reading fluency.
Books we will share this term:
