Walton On Trent C of E Primary and Nursery School
Living | Learning | Laughing
Hedgehogs (Reception/ Year 1)
Welcome to Hedgehogs Class
Autumn 1
Your teachers are:
Mrs Matthews – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Mrs Morton – Thursday and Friday
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Loveland and Mrs Morris
Curriculum
In Autumn 1, you will be learning about:
Subject | Reception | Year One |
English | Listening to stories, initial letter sounds, reading CVC words, phase 2 phonics | Listening to stories, writing sentences, phase 5 phonics |
Maths | Mastering number | Place value, addition and subtraction and shape |
Science | Senses | The human body |
Geography | Oceans | Oceans |
Art | Silhouette’s | Silhouette’s |
PE | Ball skills / Gymnastics | Ball skills / Gymnastics |
RE | Creation story – Christianity | Creation story – Christianity |
PSHE | Being me in my world – who am I? how do I fit in? | Being me in my world – who am I? how do I fit in? |
Please note: Year One will be following that National Curriculum and Reception will be following the EYFS Curriculum.
Organisation
For this half-term (Autumn 1) until the October holidays, you will have Forest School – please come dressed in forest school clothing: long sleeve t-shirt and long trousers. Bring wellies and a puddle suit in your bag ready to put on after lunch.
You will need PE kits on Thursdays and Friday – please come to school in PE kits.
Phonics Screening Information for Year 1
Thank you for every one who attended the Phonic Screening Information event.
If you were unable to attend please see the PowerPoint below for your information.
We have also listed below some resources you can use at home to support your child.
There is no need to pay or subscribe to any of the websites. Please use the free resource available.
We have also included some ideas that are not digital, to help with screen time.
Digital resources
There are free games that you do not need to subscribe for.
Buried Treasure, Dragon’s Den, Picnic on Pluto. Select a phase and then, Revise all sounds.
Letters and Sounds, English Games for 5-7 Years - Topmarks
There are free games that you do not need to subscribe for.
Choose any of the free phonics games and have fun. Practising all phases 2-5 will help your children embed their decoding skills.
Phonics Games for the Classroom and Home - Phonics Bloom
There are free games that you do not need to subscribe for
Ob and Bob, Alien Escapes, phonic frogs etc.
Choose any of the free phonics games and have fun. Practising all phases 2-5 will help your children embed their decoding skills.
You can also check out the BBC website for games, KidsTube and YouTube for phonics videos.
Non Digital Ideas
Post it notes – Can they write labels for different items in the house, can they give the item a silly name.
Encourage your child to draw sound buttons to segment the word.
A dot under a phoneme (one letter sound)
A line under a digraph (two letter that make a complete new sound e.g. ‘ai’ in rain)
A line under a trigraph (three or more letters that make a completely new sound e.g. ‘igh’ in light)
A sweeping line for split digraphs (a digraph with a letter in the middle ‘i-e’ in like)
Flashcards
Write word on paper – how many words can they read in 1minute, can they beat their score.
Snap or pairs
Write words of separate pieces of paper can they match words with the same digraphs or trigraphs.
Pass the balloon
Write words on a balloon – each time you pass the balloon them must read a word before passing it back.
Find and seek
Write a list of words, can they find them in their favourite book.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Morton and Miss Routledge
Handwriting sequence
