Welcome to Ruby Class!
Welcome to the Ruby class! We are a mixed pre-school and reception class and cater for children between the ages of 3-5 years-old. In Ruby class, we fully implement the EYFS framework where learning through play is at the heart of our curriculum and 'Laughter and Learning' is our ethos. Ms Fielder is the class teacher, Miss Ballard and Miss Cotton are the class assistants.
Our current topic is 'Fairies, Dragons and knights'. This topic has a focus on settling the children into thier new class and year group and getting to know eachother in our Personal, Social and Emotional development unit 'Me, you and us'. We will be learning the school and class rules and why these are important. Through Understanding of the World, we will learn about where we live and key information about the Royal Family, our King and London as the capital of England. We will dress up and make our own shields and swords when we learn about knights in the past and present and how these compare. We will learn about castles and the tradidtional features of these, and will visit a real castle! In science, we will learn about 'Light and Dark' and 'Humans' where we will epxlore our senses.
In Expressive Arts and Design we will be exploring creative techniques in 'Exploring creativity' and designing our own dragon traps and peg fairies.
We send home a topic fact sheet about what we are learning, which includes topic tasks, key topic vocabularly, books and questions that we will be focusing on in our topic. You can also see it here too by clicking the links below.
We have PE on Monday morning and Thursday afternoon.This term we are developing our PE skills in ball skills this term.
We hold a Book and Bisuit on a Wednesday morning at 9.00-9.20am and welcome all parents or carers to come and read a story with us and where you can support your child to choose his/her library book to take home and share. These alternate weeks for reception and preschool parents.
We will also be running our 'Outdoor Learning' in our forest school every Tuesday afternoon where we will be exploring and observing the world around us.
New class reading books are given once a week in addition to other supporting reading books for the reception children. We encourage these class readers to be read with daily at home to support your child's developing reading skills. Reading books from RWI scheme will also be sent home for the phonic stage of reading for your child.
Home learning activities to support your child's learning will also be sent home in home learning folders for reception children. These activities will help support our child's phonics, literacy and math skills that we are practising in class. Throughout the year we will be holding a Phonics and Reading workshop as well as a Early maths workshop. In these we will discuss how we teach these early skills and how these important skills can be further supported at home.
We will regularly update our Class Dojo page and your child's portfolio on the Dojo app. Your child will receive Dojo points for their efforts at school, such as taking pride in their work, working together as a team, homework and reading tasks completed and being ambitious in their learning. We will also be uploading pictures and observations of your child to your child's portfolio on Class Dojo and encourage you to add comments, photos and videos of activities your child likes to do at home. We love to see them!
Ms Fielder, Miss Ballard and Miss Cotton.
Topic Fact Sheets