Reception (Earth Class)

Welcome to Earth Class

(2024-2025)

Welcome to Earth Class...

We are delighted that you and your child have joined our wonderful school. On behalf of the staff, Governors, children and parents it gives us great pleasure in welcoming you to Great Kimble.

Our class page is here to support you and your child, below you can find out information about what your child will be learning this half term and you can also find lots of useful supporting documents in folders below.

Autumn Term 1

Over Arching Theme: Together we will Discover...

Me and My Community

Learning for Life: Self-Regulation (My Feelings)

Nursery Rhyme Basket: Traditional Rhymes

Together we will…

Getting to know each other and our new classroom.
Setting out new routines and expectations.
Talking about how to regulate our emotions and feelings.
Introduce Talk for Writing using oral storytelling.
Immerse, Imitate, Innovate and Invent using our new Talk for Writing text 'Rosie's Walk' (Fiction)
Talk about what makes us special and celebrate diversity and differences.
Explore our emotions and feelings through 'The Colour Monster'.
Investigate how amazing our bodies are, our senses and how we can keep ourselves healthy.
Use our imagination to create stories, drama, art and music.
Investigate matching, sorting, repeating patterns, measures and look closely at the composition of numbers during our White Rose Maths lessons.
Begin our Bug Club journey by starting Phase 2 Phonics.

This is only a small snapshot of all the fantastic adventures we will be taking this half term. You can find more of what we will be doing on our Curriculum Overview within the Class Documents folder on this page.

Helpful Hints:

Please ensure that all uniform, water bottles and bags are clearly named.
In Earth class we play outside whatever the weather so please make sure your child has a suitable coat, sun hat and a water bottle (Learning through Play is thirsty work!)
Once Introduced - Reading books will be changed weekly, We aim to read with children 1-2-1 twice a week.
Once introduced - Bug Club e-books will be updated according to the phase and week the children are on.
When books are sent home, reading should be a daily occurrence. Ideally, your child should be reading aloud to an adult everyday, this should be recorded in the reading record.
Visits to Smokey Row will be on a Thursday
Pen Disco taking place every Friday
A Library session will take place on a Friday