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Welcome to Woodmancote School. Reception Curriculum Evening. Stages at Woodmancote School. Foundation stage – Reception Key Stage 1 (KS1) – Year 1+2 Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Years 3-6. Foundation Stage Curriculum. 1) Personal, Social and Emotional 2) Communication and Language 3) Literacy
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Welcome to Woodmancote School Reception Curriculum Evening
Stages at Woodmancote School • Foundation stage – Reception • Key Stage 1 (KS1) – Year 1+2 • Key Stage 2 (KS2) – Years 3-6
Foundation Stage Curriculum • 1) Personal, Social and Emotional • 2) Communication and Language • 3) Literacy • 4) Mathematics • 5) Understanding of the World • 6) Physical Development • 7) Expressive Arts and Design
Foundation Stage Records • We use the Foundation Stage curriculum to assess your child’s progress throughout the year. This is a continuation of the records that pre school settings kept and passed on to school. • This is based on ongoing assessments and observations of the children. It covers all seven areas of learning in the Foundation Stage curriculum.
Parental Involvement • Parental contribution to our Foundation Stage record is important. • We gather information from you through: Information sheets Informal chats Notes in diaries / reading diaries Parent consultation evenings Home-learning celebrations WOW vouchers
Parents as Partners and Communication • Curriculum newsletters • What have we done today? • Use the home – school diary (send in every day) and the reading record book • Pop in to see us • Read notices and letters • Help your child to choose things to bring into school that are related to our theme • Help with home learning.
Support and encourage your child to: • Describe the pictures with extended vocabulary • Understand that the pictures tell a story • Speak in full sentences • Develop story language • Understand stories and predict what might happen • Recall and sequence stories
Ways to get words off the page • Use the pictures • Use repetition, rhyme and actions • Know the letter sounds • Try to make sense of the text (a good guess) • Know words by sight We need to use all of these strategies to be confident readers
‘Jolly Phonics’ and ‘Letters and Sounds’ • Teaches letter recognition linked to letter sounds • Each letter sound is linked to an action • Other phonemes (sounds) included e.g. sh, ch, oo, ee, or • It is important to say the sounds correctly e.g. ‘sss’ not ‘suh’ • Early teaching of putting sounds together to read words
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To achieve happy, successful readers we need to work in partnership • Read daily with your child – try to make time in your routine • Praise and encourage • Discuss the stories, pictures and words • Help your child learn the Jolly Phonics actions • Help your child learn the sight words in context • Know when to stop! Have fun! Enjoy reading with your child and they will enjoy reading with you!
Writing is hard. Many things are involved in writing. You have to… • Have an idea • Think of words to express that idea • Know how to write remembering direction, spaces, letter formation, punctuation etc. • Still remember your idea!
Handwriting • How to hold a pencil • How to go around a letter – movement not neatness • Our agreed style of letters • Leaving spaces • Using lines correctly
Help at home • Let your child see you writing! Lists, postcards, notes etc • Go over Jolly Phonics sounds and actions • Praise your child when they have a go at writing • Help with spellings • Listen to your child telling their whole class story
First Steps • Your child will have come into school with a varied knowledge of maths concepts e.g. number recognition knowledge of size, shape and weight number rhymes, songs and stories
3 Steps to Sound Understanding • PRACTICAL – “Put 3 animals in a field, add 2 more animals to the field. How many do we have now?” • ORAL – children will explain what they have done e.g. “3 animals add another 2 animals makes 5 animals altogether”. • MENTAL RECALL – through lots of practical work the children will develop basic mental recall skills e.g. 3+2=5 • This is a great way to learn as it is based on practical experience.
What can you do at home? • There are many fun ways to help to develop your child’s maths skills at home: • Count everything and anything! • Play games e.g. dominoes, card games or dice games • Look for numbers in the environment e.g. on car journeys, shopping trips etc. • Sort objects by shape or colour • Make patterns with toys or everyday household items • When in the kitchen ask questions such as “Find a bigger plate”, “Find 3 potatoes” or “How many plates do we need for dinner?” • Money – play shopping games and talk about which coins to use. • Talk about time e.g. in the morning, tomorrow, yesterday, lunch will be at 12.00 etc. • Sing number songs and rhymes