Aspire, Believe - Together Achieve
Let Your Light Shine - Matthew 5:16
Explorer Class
Staffing:
Explorers – Mrs F Florendine and Mrs Lord + Mrs Griffiths (TA) + ANO SEN TA
We are so excited to welcome you to our Explorer Class page.
Making positive relationships is at the heart of everything we do in reception, and in Explorer Class ‘work is our play.’ We learn through a range of adult led and child initiated activities in our indoor and outdoor classrooms, where your child will have opportunities to explore, investigate and create in our exciting and engaging environment.
As your child settles into school we will begin to add information and photos about how we teach our Early Years curriculum including; phonics, handwriting and maths.
We can’t wait for when things are better and we can welcome you our classroom, but until then please come back and check this page regularly. It will give you an overview of life in reception at St Barnabas and all the fun we have.
Download: Explorer Parent Expectation Evening 2020
Mrs Gould & Mrs Lord
Phonics workshop
Here you will find out what phonics is, how we teach it in Explorer class and ways in which you can support your child’s learning at home.
Download: Phonics PowerPoint Presentation
Blending to read clip (page 4)
How to say the sounds (page 5)
Tricky words song (page 6)
Term 6
In term six we will be heading to the seaside!
Term 5
In term 5, our theme has been ‘Once upon a time’. We have been on a journey through different traditional tales that appear in the story ‘Nibbles the book monster by Emma Yarlett’.
You can find the story opposite …
We have been using Talk for Writing acting out each story, and making our own adaptations for each one.
Our project question this term has been “Do all characters make good choices?” We have been discussing this question during our PSHE time, and deciding whether we think each character has made good or bad choices.
Term 4
Our first week back as a whole class, we have been joining the whole school science week, and have been super Scientists.
Then for the rest of this term we will be learning all about Minibeasts, and answering the question of ‘What makes animals Minibeasts?’
Our focus story will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, you can listen to it here…
I wonder if you can go on a Minibeast hunt, and see how many types you can find?
Explorer’s have had some class pets in term 4, caterpillars! We have observed them as they transformed into beautiful butterflies.
Check out our photos from Science week!
Term 3
This term we will be reading the story ‘The Egg by M. P Robertson’. I wonder what is inside that gigantic egg?
Pencil Grasp
Pencil grasp song – Here is a little video to help your child with their pencil grip. Pencil grip is very important to get right at an early age, so remind your child to use snappy fingers.
Home Learning
Term 3 Week 2
Term 3 Week 3
Term 3 Week 4
Term 2
This term we have been zooming on our brooms, through the deep dark wood, all the way back to our family trees in time for Christmas.
We have really enjoyed exploring Julia Donaldson stories. We met the witch from Room on the Broom, acted out the story and created new characters for our own versions. Then in our own Forest area, we went on a hunt for the Gruffalo and his woodland friends. Finally we found Stickman lost, and we helped get him back to his family tree in time for Christmas.
We have been celebrating Christmas: listening to the Christmas story, acting it out and singing lots of lovely Christmas songs. We really enjoyed taking part in our whole school sing along to Oh What a Glorious Night, which has been posted on the website.
Term 2 Gallery
Term 1
As we settle into school this term, we will be exploring our feelings through reading the story of The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. You can listen to the story by following this link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0iu80u04Y
Being school ready…
https://www.pacey.org.uk/working-in-childcare/spotlight-on/being-school-ready/
In reception we use the Tapestry learning journal app to record evidence of learning for each child. We are able to share this with parents/carers, which provides a great home-school link.
https://tapestry.info/parents-carers.html
Term 1 Gallery
