Welcome to Donaldson Class!
Welcome to the Donaldson class! We are a mixed pre-school and reception class and cater for children between the ages of 3-5 years-old. In Donaldson 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, Mrs Trivett Miss Ballard and Miss Hopkins are the class assistants.
Our current topic is 'Once Upon a Time'. This topic has a focus on Understanding of the World where we will be learning about important celebrations such as Christmas and Diwali. We will be learning about Christmas festival traditions, how these are celebrated around the world and comparing celebrations in the past and present.
In Expressive arts and design we will be exploring a DT unit 'Let's make hats' where we will explore how differtn materilas and joining techniques to make a winter hat.
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 Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon.This term we are developing our PE skills in gymastics and team games.
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.
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 and on class dojo 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, Mrs Trivett, Miss Ballard and Miss Hopkins
Topic Fact Sheets