School Curriculum and General issues
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Nursery Baseline
by Guest- 0 replies
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Does anyone have a copy of the nursery baseline. I am a Reception teacher and our school doe snot hav eits own nursery. Childrne come from around 12 differnt settings, and bring 12 differnt ways of recording. I am looking for a way to 'continue their learnign journey' and thought that if i did this baseline they would all have thw same information and then i could plan from there. I find the profile a bit to woolly thanks hope someone can help
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Pumpkin Soup
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Has anyone got any great ideas or hopefully resources for using the helen Cooper story Pumpkin soup? I am getting pretty desperate and need some help for tomorrow if poss!!!! Thanks so much I get some really great ideas and advice from here
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New To Reception Teaching!
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Hi I'm new to Reception teaching (I taught year 1 before) & I'm feeling a bit lost! I was just wondering if anyone would mind outlining how a day runs in their reception class? We have changed our timetable & from tomorrow we are going to have continuous provision for 9am - 10am & then focused writing input from 10am - 10.30am. Then it will be continuous provision for the rest of the morning with focused writing activites. We do counting rhymes & phonics before lunch. Afternoon is continuous provision with 2 focused activites. We have 2 reception classes, but the children have access to both classrooms, so it's more of a recep…
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Sand And Water Play
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I would be very grateful if anyone can share some activity ideas for sand and water play - I feel I have exhausted my ideas and getting bored of the same old ones.Many thanks
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New Maths Framework
by Guest lahayman- 2 replies
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Does anyone have any idea about what is happening with mathematical development with the new maths framework. I have the only reception class in our school. Other teachers have begun to use new planning formats and talk about the new framework. I have looked on the standards website but I just end up even more confused!!!!
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Reception Weekly Planning
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How do you do yours? if anyone is willing to share would be most grateful. Am having a mind lapse and can't seem to make it workable. Looks very much like year 1 planning and we're only in our 4th eception week!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP THANKS
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Owl Babies
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Hello, My Big Book this week is Owl Babies and I'm really struggling to think up ideas for Focus Group activities in my CLL sessions. We have sequenced the last 2 stories and I thought we could do that but it's quite hard to seqeunce I think. I plan to introduce the book using a story box but that's as far as I've got. Could somebody help me please? Thank you! Tash X
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Maths Lessons
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Trying to get my head around the renewed framework in reception - eek! Can anyone recommend a really good teacher resource book which has very detailed daily lesson plans? Have already got Scholastic's '100 maths lessons and more' but find some of the activities a bit boring. I need something that is easy to follow and halves the amount of planning time we have to do.
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New Literacy And Maths Framework
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Hi, has anyone managed to get their heads around how the new Literacy and Maths framework effects Reception? I'm finding it very hard to do the planning, especially the Maths. Are we supposed to be following the blocked units like the other year groups? (looking at the Leicester county council website it looks like some places are advocating this). I'm having great difficulty setting up a medium term plan! Any suggestions/websites would be very much appreciated! Thanks Mandy
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Writing In Reception
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Hi! I was just wondering how much and what type of writing any reception teachers out there do with their children. Previously, my children have written weekend news in their 'diaries' each week. However, Some children's sentences were very similar each week e.g. I went to the park etc etc and then any writing linked to topic work. Obviously there is independent mark making, water/chalk writing outdoors etc aswell. I have a book by Ros Bayley called 'Creative Writing' (I think, can't find it at minute!) and it has some lovely ideas to facilitate ideas for writing e.g. taking a cake in class, cutting it open and finding a key inside - what might this key unlock? or ta…
