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St Joseph's School and Nursery

Acorns (Reception)

Our Learning

Our Topics this Term are….
People Who Help Us:
We will be looking at different people who help us in our community and how they help us.
Around the World:
We will be looking at different countries around the word and their different celebrations. 
In maths this term we will be…
  • Match, sort and compare
  • Talk about measure and patterns
  • It’s me 1,2,3
  • Circles and Triangles
  • 1,2,3,4,5
  • Shapes with 4 sides.
As writers and readers, we will be…
  • Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.
  • Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences.
  • Form lower-case and capital letters correctly
  • Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with letter/s.
PSHE: we will be focusing on ‘Being me in my world: who am I and how do I fit in? and ‘Celebrating difference: Respect for similarity and difference and being unique’
P.E.:  In P.E over the next two terms we will be focusing on Coordination through movement and space as well as balance.
UoW:  In understanding of the world we will be looking at people in our communities and how the help us as well as celebrations all around the world.

PE Details

PE days for The Acorns is Monday and Friday.

Homework

Each week, the children will receive homework in their homework books. Each activity is based on what they have been learning about during that week.

Enrichment Activities

Each week the children have the opportunity to take part in super star sports, have specialist Spanish, drama, art and music lessons and participate in weekly activities in their school houses.