Click here to watch a short video about reading with your child at home
At Tiptree Heath we are: Ready, Respectful, Safe
Our Curriculum
Here is a link to our EYFS Long Term Plan: EYFS curriculum map 24-25
Some parts may be subject to change during the year, as we get to know the children and choose to teach to their own particular interests.
To find out the changes to the Early Years Curriculum, click here.
Spring 1 2025: When I grow up!
Happy New Year Little Scarlet class! We hope you had a restful Christmas break making lots of memories with your friends and family. This half term is all about our own goals, aspirations and challenges. We will be learning about different professions and sharing our ambitions as we grow up. Our stories will be based around this theme, how to build our resilience and courage when we find something difficult. Our circle time discussions and SCARF sessions will be centred around relationships, feelings and emotions. We will be learning about how to express our feelings to others, what makes a good friend and how to keep our school values of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.
We are fortunate to have our PE sessions with our coach Paul this half term. They will take place on a Friday afternoon each week and the children will be learning team games and ball skills. The children will bring their PE bags home every half term to be washed (unless they have an accident in school, in which case will need to be returned to school before their next PE session).
We hope to have visitors to our class this term, sharing their occupation with the children and explaining what it involves. The children will be encouraged to ask questions, explore ideas together and feel inspired.
If you have any questions about any aspect of your child's learning this half term, please speak to a member of the team. A very in-depth explanation of our curriculum can be found above in our 'curriculum map'.
Weekly Update
WB 6th January
First day of term -Tuesday 7th January
What will we be learning about this week?
We will be sharing our holiday news, writing thank you letters to Santa and painting pictures of our Christmas events. We will also be looking at the season Winter and the changes that happen in our environment when this season arrives.
In our Maths lessons we will be practicing our counting and number recognition with some fun interactive whiteboard games.
Circle times this week will be reminding ourselves of the school values and how we can listen respectfully to others. We will use our talk partner to share ideas and try to remember what they have told us so we can feed back to the group.
Our home learning idea for this week is...
Talk about something new you would like to learn either at home or school.
This term we would like children to only show and share things linked to our theme of the week, or any writing they have practised at home. This will be celebrated in class and rewarded with a sticker to encourage them.
Letter Formation
Here is a video of how we teach letter formation at Tiptree Heath. Hopefully this is helpful for practise at home.
(This video was made using clips from the YouTube account: Ludlow Learning)
PE
We will be doing PE on a Friday afternoon this half term with Paul our PE coach.,
We will be learning how to play team games with movement and introducing ball skills
Useful website links for Reception:
For a list of general recommended reads in EYFS, click here
For information about how we teach phonics at school, take a look at this page of the school website.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources - good for phonics games (many are free)
http://twinkl.co.uk/ - thousands of resources, some of which can be accessed for free
https://www.topmarks.co.uk - online maths games for primary school children, sorted by age
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html - online games again useful for phonics
https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/themes/all-activities - Creative activities about characters, illustrations superheroes etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw - stories and poems performed by Michael Rosen
https://www.coolmath4kids.com - Online games, great interactive manipulatives, lessons, quizzes and brain teasers
https://easyscienceforkids.com - activities about understanding the world
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ - articles, activities and games
https://artfulparent.com - art and craft ideas
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XMF3Inoi8R9nSI8ChOsdQ -how to draw videos for children