Rainbow
Welcome to Rainbow Classes 2019!
This year our team are:
Rainbow 1: Mrs Mehta (Class Teacher), Ms Booth, Mrs Kirby, Mrs Dean, Mrs Eccles and Mrs Tombs-Gallagher (Teaching Assistants)
Rainbow 2: Mrs Smith (Class Teacher), Ms Ladyman and Ms Owen (Teaching Assistants)
Please feel free to speak to any of the team if you have any concerns or worries, we want to ensure as smooth a transition as possible for you and your children!
We have now begun the term’s main topic, ‘Once Upon a Celebration.’ The topic is based around traditional tales and celebrations. We will focus on Guy Fawkes, Diwali and Christmas as well as emerge the children in many traditional tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk. Please find below the link to the topic web. If you wanted to enhance your children’s learning at home, you could read traditional tales together, act them out or draw pictures of the different characters.
We have also begun our phase two phonics teaching. Whilst we are aware many children have some knowledge of the phase two sounds, all children will start at the beginning of the phase so we can correct some pronunciation, look at letter formation and practice blending skills. We will reassess and re group later in the term.
General Information:
The children will need to bring a water bottle and small snack with them for each day (no nuts please), you can send the whole week’s worth of snacks in on a Monday if easier in a small named container. Please don’t send in items which need refrigerating as we are unable to do this. Please ensure that the children have weather appropriate clothing with them at all times as we spend a lot of our time outside!
Please could you also ensure the children have their PE kit in school at all times. We will be doing PE on Thursdays and Fridays but sometimes there is a change in timetable so we ask that it is please kept in school for the whole week. It would be super if the children can practice changing at home as it can take quite a while for us to change 30 children! We will of course help them should they need it, especially with tights, buttons etc.
Best wishes
Mrs Smith and Mrs Mehta
LEARNING within the EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE is fun!
Children in our Foundation class experience learning through the EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE framework.
The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum is organised into seven areas of learning:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication, and Language
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding of the World
Physical Development
Creative Development
We aim to provide children with a balanced range of activities to achieve active learning through play.
The Seven Areas of Learning help Reception staff plan the learning environment, activities and experiences. The classroom environments, including outside, are designed to enable your child to become a social and confident learner through interaction, exploration and enjoyment in all areas of learning.
Throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage the children work towards EARLY LEARNING GOALS. The EARLY LEARNING GOALS establish expectations for most children to reach by the end of their Foundation Stage. The goals are also organised into the Seven areas of learning. Your child will experience a vast range of activities to ensure they are working towards the Early Learning goals.
Please feel free to come to any of us with any questions or concerns. We are in the playground before school and we are around after school, or do ask to make a time to come and see us if it is something that you would like a bit more time for.
Useful documents and websites:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
