Geckos

Mrs Patel (Class Teacher)

Miss Bright teaches in Geckos for half a day every Tuesday.

Teaching Assistants work as a team across EYFS so the following adults also support pupils in Geckos: Mrs Farr and Mrs Tomlinson

tinupatel@greentrees.wilts.sch.uk

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COMING SOON!

This week in Geckos Class: Week beginning 7th September

Welcome to all the new children and parents! It has been lovely to meet everyone for our half an hour visit to find out more about you and show you around the classroom. This week we will be in school part time and begin to learn the new school routines.

Our enquiry question for this term is ‘What do people do at Greentrees?’. Over the next few weeks we will be meeting lots of people that can help us around the school.

This term we will begin our system of voting each day for a story from our reading spine books in the reading area, where we learn a new piece of vocabulary from Vocabulary Victor to put into sentences.

Phonics Joe and Phonics Fairy:

In Phonics this week, as authors, we will be working on our speaking and listening skills through circle time sessions to get to know our new friends.

Vocabulary Victor’s words:

As authors, we develop our vocabulary by using Vocabulary Victor’s words. Some of these words are chosen from books in the book corner and others are specific to different areas of learning.

We will add to the list as the weeks progress:

Author’s area:

Mathematician’s area:

Artist’s areas:

Engineer’s area:

Geographer’s area:

Scientist’s area:

Questioning Tiger:

Questioning Tiger sets up challenges around the room that we can try out during Explorer Time each day. He also helps us with our Oracy skills.

Maths Wizard:

In Maths this week, as mathematicians, we were learning how to use the mathematical resources in the maths area.

Also this week…

Star Chair:

We choose one child to sit on the Star Chair each day.

Reading

This term, our class will be learning about rhyming books

In a few weeks, we will be given our first reading book in our bookbags, from Phonics shed.

Our weekly visits to the school library will start when we are full time and take place on Wednesday.

Story Suitcases:

After half term, each Friday, a pupil is chosen to take home a Story Suitcase. Inside the case, there is a story book, a book review notepad and a story prop. We ask that an adult read the story aloud to promote the love of reading. Children may enjoy using the prop to engage with the story while listening to it, or to re-enact it afterwards. We ask that the story suitcase is returned to school on Monday morning.

Book Changes:

Children will have books changed once a week on the following day:

Monday – Oaks

Tuesday – Sycamores

Wednesday – Limes

Thursday – Chestnuts

In Reception, we get to know the following books really well. We have a daily story vote to choose the book that is read to us!

EYFS Enquiries

Our enquiry in Term 1 is: ‘What do people do at Greentrees?’

Click here for a summary of our Autumn 1 learning:

Click here for previous enquiries:

For an overview of enquiries in FS2, see here.

Celebration Assemblies

In our weekly Celebration Assemblies at each site, we present awards, certificates or stickers for the following:

Learner of the Week
Birthdays
Team Point Milestones
Golden Mile
Pen Licences

You are very welcome to join us for these assemblies in support of your child.

Maths Passports

We will send Math’s Passports home in October. We encourage children in Geckos to practise their mental arithmetic as often as possible at home. Maths Passports are a good way to support this. Next to each skill in Maths Passports, there are three boxes to date. One for pupils (self-assessment), one for parents and the final one for teachers as follows:

We endeavour to check Maths Passports as often as possible.

On the Mathematics page, within the Curriculum menu, is a guide for parents to support the assessment of Maths Passport skills. Assessment tasks can also be downloaded and printed for use at home.