Mrs Pickard – Dentdale

Mrs Pickard teaches this mixed class of 24 lovely Reception children. Mrs Tennant our teaching assistant is also very much involved in our daily play and learning. This class is called ‘Dentdale’ and is named after one of the nearest of the Yorkshire Dales to Ingleton.

We enjoy learning through practical play activities, wherever possible, in our light and airy classroom and attractive surrounding outdoor areas.

We follow the EYFS curriculum for Reception children. Our curriculum activities are meaningful and fun. We value the importance of parents and carers in helping educate the children and hold regular termly activities where we invite parents in to help their children learn.

At home children are expected to read frequently, enjoy discussion and practise key concepts in maths and phonics weekly.

CLASS INFO

Class Teacher: Mrs Pickard
Assisted by: – Mrs Tennant

Year Group(s): Reception

CURRICULUM

Long Term Plans

HOME LEARNING

Please listen to your child read regularly at home. all children have home reading books and a class library book to enjoy you reading to them. Reception children have a phoneme book in which phonemes that we are working on in school are added weekly. Please practise recognising these phonemes and talking about words that begin with these phonemes. For those children who are able to write please practise over writing the letter shapes.
Year 1 children have a weekly homework task sheet that expects them to work at home discussing phonemes we are working on , practise mathematical concepts and a solve a problem. There is also a whole school discussion topic to talk about in family time.

During school closure, the following links will be useful for home learning;

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/oxford-reading-tree-levels/

ROUTINE & TIMETABLE

Reception children come into school with their parent/ carer, self register, change their library book then get busy in the morning.

Year 1 children may play outside until the whistle goes when they line up then walk in to the classroom with Mrs Pickard or Mrs Tennant in the morning.

TERM TOPICS

This term we are having a different theme each week for our topic work, in school and for home learning.

The themes are as follows:

Wk bg 15th June – Go Wild

Wk bg 22nd June – Local History

Wk bg 29th June – Places

Wk bg 6 July – Rainforests

Wk bg 13th July – Summer