ROSEN CLASS   

One of the best-known figures in the children's book world - Michael Rosen

Welcome to our Reception/Year 1 Class page.

Thank you for choosing Holy Trinity as the school for your children - we are certainly very happy to welcome them all into our school family and hope that they settle quickly and happily. Our aim is to enrich our class to enable the children to thrive within our environment and beyond the school gates. There will be multiple opportunities to get involved in the life of the school as it is really important that we all work together as a team to ensure your children have the best year ever! 

Meet the Team 

Miss Mercer - Reception/Year 1 Class Teacher (Monday - Wednesday)

Mrs Thomas - Reception/Year 1 Class Teacher (Thursday & Friday)

Miss Hayes – Teaching Assistant

Miss Jenkins - 1:1 support

Mrs Cummings - Class teacher (Wednesday afternoons)

The Early Years Curriculum – Please see our curriculum and information about how Early Years education is structured and developed in the Curriculum section of our website.

Reading at Home

Top tips for reading with your child:

1. Play 'I Spy' games - Can you find words beginning with...?

                                     Can you point to the ...?                                    

                                     What colour is .... coat?                                     

                                     How many ..... can you see?

2. Make it fun - Enjoy reading together. 

                       - Put funny voices on for the characters to keep it engaging. 

3. Create - Use reading to inspire drawings and fantastic creations. 

4. Make space - Have a special time or a certain time that you read together. 

In school reading - 

The children are involved in a lot of different reading activities in school ranging from, the more formal Read, Write, Inc phonics sessions to the more informal story time sessions. They can enjoy books through continuous provision including the class reading corner, and guided reading session. Every child will bring home a school reading book which will be changed regularly. We won’t have set days for hearing specific children read so it is important that every child brings their reading book back to school each day please. Every time they get a new book, it is really important that they are given the opportunity to talk about the story as well as hear or try to read the text as they learn these skills. Please make a comment in their reading record book every time you hear them read (at least three times a week please).

Physical Education

In Early Years the curriculum focuses on children's physical development, teaching and developing the fundamental skills of movement, balance, coordination, flexibility and agility.

P.E lessons are on Thursday mornings. Please can the children come to school dressed in their P.E. kits on that day. We also ask that black trainers of pumps should be work on this day. 

This half term...

The topic that we will be exploring this half term is 'Once Upon a Time'. This will allow the children to be exposed to multiple different Traditional Tales, as well as immersing them in learning activities that will enable them to make great progress. This topic will be explored throughout indoor and outdoor continuous provision. Through exciting activities, oral retelling, and story mapping, we are excited to see them develop their skills. Looking at a range of different Traditional tales, celebrating World Book Day and visiting our local library to read are just a few of the exciting things we are looking forward to this half term. 

The children will continue to learn to read and write through the phonics programme Read, Write Inc with daily sessions and additional reading throughout the week.

They will have maths focused tasks throughout the week and learn maths objectives through continuous provision and child-initiated learning.

At Holy Trinity School, we believe it is important that the learning objectives are taken into the children's play as much as possible, so that they are fully engaged in their learning.

Continuous provision themes are loosely linked to current topics in both our indoor and outdoor classrooms. To ensure that we are providing high quality provision, we ensure that activities are linked with the guidance of Development Matters and reflect the statutory guidelines for EYFS.

They also very much reflect the interests of the children as we feel that this is the best way to keep the children engaged and enjoying the learning that is ongoing throughout each day.

The children will have weekly RE, PSHE, Music, Computing and PE lessons.