Transcript Meet the teacher

Meet the teacher
Busy Bees
Morning routines.
• These are in place to encourage independence
and ensure a calm and productive start to the
day..
• Messages can be left at the gate.
PE Days
• Please ensure the PE kit is in school everyday.
• Please label all the kit, including socks.
• Encourage your child to dress and undress at
home to make it easier for them to be
independent.
Activate
• We call it Brain Gym in class.
• “We are exercising our brains so that we are ready to learn.”
This stimulates and exercises the neural connections between
the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
• Children enjoy it and show high levels of concentration.
Behaviour for learning.
• Everything done in Busy Bees class is to encourage
independence.
• “I can classroom.” This is the message we are trying to instil in
our class. We want to encourage perseverance and resilience in
our children.
• Learning is Learnable – if you know the secrets to success!-
school focus.
• “Try new things.”
Our curriculum is based on 3 Prime areas of learning – PSED (Personal, Social and Emotional Development), PD
(Physical Development), CL (Communication and Language) and 4 Specific areas – L (Literacy), M (Mathematics), UW
(Understanding the World) and ED (Expressive Arts and Design). All our activities are topic based and there is a
tremendous overlap of what we cover within each topic. These headings are a guide to the journey for this term
which will enable your child to settle happily and gain confidence to talk and share their ideas within the class.
Discovering Who We Are...
Talk about ourselves...
Listen to others...
We are all important....
What do we know.....?
Explore Our New Environment
What are the rules?
What do we like? Where can we find?
ENJOYING ACHIEVING WHAT THEY SET
OUT TO DO.
CHOOSING WAYS TO DO THINGS.
BEING WILLING TO HAVE A GO.
HAVE THEIR OWN IDEAS.
PLAYING WITH WHAT THEY KNOW.
All Change Please!
Develop What We Can Do
Explore how we use our senses.
Taste, Touch, See, Hear, Smell.
KEEP TRYING.
BEING INVOLVED AND
CONCENTRATING.
Understand How We Grow.
Learn how we have changed from
babies.
MAKING LINKS.
FINDING OUT AND EXPLORING.
We aim to develop the characteristics of effective learning through our topic activities.
These are highlighted in red and are: engagement through play and exploration,
motivation through active learning and thinking through creating and thinking critically.
Home Learning Book
• This is an opportunity for you to become involved with your
child’s learning. At reception level the child needs to select a
simple task. Although the book is with you for 3 weeks, there is
no expectation that the task should be onerous! Enjoy the task
together and support your child to produce something that
they can feel proud of.
Partnership with parents.
• Communication. Tell us anything which may affect your child’s learning.
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We will tell you when things are going well and when they are not.
If you need to tell us something please write a note, e-mail, ask for a phone call or
speak to me AFTER school.
• Be positive about school.
WOW Forms
I was really impressed when ----- told me
why it was important to eat their
vegetables.”They have vitamins that are
good for me”
23.9.2013
This would give extra information for the PD section of their profile –
keeping healthy.
Reading
• Read to or with your child every night.
• Make it fun!
• Discuss the pictures before reading the text,
use them as cues.
• Briefing on reading – 30th September, Mrs
Churchill.
Phonics
• The phonemes we have introduced in class will be sent home so
that you are aware of what your child has covered.
• A phoneme is the sound that each letter makes.
• Fred speak. This is breaking the word down into the individual
sounds.
Handwriting
• Cursive script.
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v,
w, x, y, z.
Help with transport
• Thank you to those who have already
forwarded their insurance and driving licence
details.
• Watch this space!