Butterfly Class

WELCOME TO BUTTERFLY CLASS!

We are a mix of nursery and reception children, taught by Miss Hards (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday) and Mrs Chapman (Thursday) and we are lucky to be supported by Mrs Tyrer every morning and Miss Boocock every day.

Early years is where each child starts their learning journey through education and we endeavour to make it as fun, practical and engaging as possible. We boast a wide range of resources along with an impressive outdoor area for our children to access freely.

In Butterfly class we aim to;

Provide an environment which is safe, secure, and welcoming, where learning takes place through play;

Provide a positive environment where children can explore and experiment;

Provide an environment where equal opportunities for all takes place regardless of gender, race, culture, or religion;

Promote understanding, kindness, and tolerance of others;

Provide a varied and enjoyable curriculum that focuses on the importance of nurturing your child's motivation to learn;

Be dynamic and flexible, changing in response to children's prevailing concerns and interests.

In Butterfly Class we actively promote characteristics of effective learning and where a child has been observed exploring, concentrating or planning their play we celebrate this with a 'Ellie the Explorer', 'Concentrating Crocodile' or 'Planning Puppy' sticker. If your child comes home with one, why not ask them what they have been doing?   

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

Reception

Maths – This term we will start with shape and patterns, children will be learning the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes, as well as exploring more complex patterns. They will continue securing their knowledge of numbers within ten, counting to twenty and beyond, and moving onto simple addition and subtraction.

English - Reception will have daily phonics lessons and reading practice sessions 3 times a week. Alongside this we have English sessions that focus on a key text as a stimulus for writing. Some of the texts we will be using include The Tiny Seed and I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato.

During this term children will become secure at writing CVC words, short captions and form sentences that can be read with others. We will also be practicing our letter formation and building finger strength to support this. During provision time, we model and support children to become independent reading and writing.

If you would like any support with phonics, reading or letter formation, please speak to a member of staff.

Topic-

This half term we will be learning all about growing, from planting seeds to observing lifecycles. The children will be learning about how to keep themselves healthy and what makes them grown.

Next half term we will be learning all about what happens at the seaside and what we might find there

Nursery

Maths – This term nursery will continue to develop their counting skills, ensuring we have accurate counting and saying the total amount. They will be counting to ten and singing lots of counting songs. Alongside this we will be talking about mass, capacity, length and height.

English – Nursery have made a great start to their phonics leaning and will continue this during summer term. You have may have noticed children using their phonics to ‘sound out’ words, this is exactly what they should be doing in preparation for reception phonics.

We will continue learning to learn initial sounds, focusing on a sound each week

Each week there will be a nursery rhyme focus, where children learn about alliteration, rhyme and listening skills.

Topic- This term we will be learning all things Growing! We are going to be learning what different things need to grow, including plants, ourselves and animals. We will be using our gardening skills to grow lots of different plants and looking after our tadpoles and caterpillars.

After half term we will be learning all about the beach! Things we might find there and what lives in the sea.

WHAT TO BRING TO SCHOOL

Please could we make sure that all children have a water bottle in school with them on a daily basis. Book Bags should be brought to school every day (we often make exciting creations to bring home). Please ensure that your child brings appropriate outdoor clothing including coats, hats, scarves and gloves in winter or sun hats and sun cream in summer. We ask that children arrive wearing sun cream so we can get exploring outside as quickly as possible. We have a range of wellies and all in one rain suits for children to use during our messy play or bad weather. Please feel free to bring your own if you would prefer. Please ensure that everything is labelled with your child's name as we often have an array of unnamed items left without a home at the end of the day.

 Hopefully we will see the sun shining this term, please send your child with a sun hat and apply sun cream in the morning.

Wednesday is our PE day.

Reception will bring home a reading for pleasure book and a decodable reading book that they have practised in school. We ask that you share these books at home and make a note in the reading record when you have children have read.

NUMBOTS

Numbots is aimed at both Nursery and Reception and helps children to learn basic number facts. We practise this a little in class but encourage children to practise at home on tablets/computers too. Their passwords have been sent home, but if you require a new one, please just ask.

CONTACT US

Please always feel free to come and see us before or after school should you need to discuss anything. We are looking forward to working in partnership with you all.

Miss Hards, Mirs Chapman, Mrs Tyrer and Miss Boocock