Silver Birch

Welcome to Silver Birch & Sycamore!

Silver Birch Staff: Mr Hales, Mrs Jones & Mrs Seaton

Sycamore Staff: Mrs Dawes, Mr Hales & Miss Palmer

Other Staff in Reception: Mrs Corne, Miss Thomas, & Mrs Sproson 

Inside our classroom...
...We work hard every day to create an enjoyable learning environment where we are encouraged to achieve our best and work together for a brighter future!

Our Spring Term themes are READY, STEADY COOK and TEDDY BEARS

 We will be looking at healthy eating, cooking delicious recipes and sharing stories such as The magic porridge pot, Supertato, and The enormous turnip. For Teddy bears we will be linking stories such as Goldilocks, Whatever next and We're going on a bear hunt to our own teddies and stories. 

Our EYFS provision will develop confidence and competence in learning and using key skills. This includes counting, sorting, matching, seeking patterns, making connections, recognising relationships and working with numbers, shapes, space and measure.

Our Maths focus over Spring Term will be on careful counting out loud and of objects, and understanding different groups and how to combine them. We aim to gain a true understanding of the numbers and what they really mean, as well as develop skills to use number effectively and confidently. We will be consolidating more/ less and introducing addition and subtraction. 

Each week...

Every Monday, Tuesday & Thursday - Full uniform needed each day. 

Wednesday - PE Day / Forest Session - Fitness clothing can be worn including trainers, please bring wellies and a suitable coat. 

Every Friday - Fitness Friday, come to school in your fitness clothes. 

Things to remember ...

• Working Together Books (Homework) are given out every Friday and should be back in school before the following Thursday to share with friends, you can choose tasks from the homework menu.
• Reading is an important part of the children's development and children are required to read at home and practise their high frequency words everyday or as often as possible - do not forget to sign their reading diary too! These should be brought into school everyday. 
• Remember you can change your child's reading book as often as you feel it is needed, either come into school in the morning with your child, or ask your child to change it when they come in. 
• PE day is every Wednesday. All children are required to wear suitable Fitness clothing, as described in the Uniform Policy 
• Fitness Friday is every Friday - children should wear black or navy tracksuit bottoms & jacket top with a plain white or yellow t-shirt.
• Wednesday afternoon is also our Forest session - children will be spending time outdoors in all weathers. Please ensure children have wellies, waterproof coats and clothing appropriate to the weather.  

What you need to know about the curriculum...

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework supports an integrated approach to early learning and care. It gives all professionals a set of common principles and commitments to deliver quality early education and childcare experiences to all children.

As well as being the core document for all professionals working in the foundation years, the EYFS framework gives parents and carers confidence that regardless of where they choose for their child’s early education, they can be assured that the same statutory commitments and principles will underpin their child’s learning and development experience.

USEFUL LINKS FOR HOME LEARNING

If you need your logins for any of these sites please send a Dojo message to your class teacher

Phonics Play: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Phonics Bloom: https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

Online Phonics Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

Good morning song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuI_p7a9VGs     

The wake up dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUbdNbu6ak&list=RD1gUbdNbu6ak&start_radio=1  

Funky Feet Dough Disco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQ2CaA7E50  

The counting song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4K9oi7oBM&t=66s     

Maths Games: www.ictgames.com www.topmarks.co.uk

Songs: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittleBabyBum

Numberblocks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks 

Collins Ebooks (reading scheme books at home): https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Stories read by Oakhill staff:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9civFgauT3bfWSI8dAcdtQ