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| Reception Prayers.pdf | Download |
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| Phonics and reading for parents 2024 website.pdf | Download |
Welcome to the Reception class web page. Here you can find further information about life in reception class. If you have any questions or queries please contact me.
Each term, the children have a Big Question, which all their learning centres around, and which they will explore and answer. The Big Questions are based upon Catholic Social Teaching. The Big Question for the summer term is Who am I?
Children learn through carefully planned play, based upon their current interests as well as the Big Question. They experience a range of child led, child initiated, adult initiated and adult led activities throughout the day.
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During 2024, in response to Pope Francis and in preparation for the Year of Jubilee, the children will be learning about the Year of Prayer, focusing upon the Our Father. They will be learning about what the Our Father means and how we can spread the word of the Lord through this prayer.
Our Virtues for this half term are: Intentional, where the children will learn how to live and use the resources of the earth with consideration and Prophetic in the example they set to others.
The children will continue to learn about God and Jesus following the Birmingham Diocesan Curriculum "Learning and Growing as the People of God". Our units of work for this autumn term are God's Gifts - Creation, Prayer, which is our continuous unit, Baptism and Advent.
The children also will listen to a variety of Bible stories, learning about key people in the Bible and why they were important and relevant to us today, linking with our Big Question.
Reception have their own class prayer:
Let us thank you O Lord,
For this wonderful day.
Help us as we learn and play,
Help us to be kind to all
And catch us when we fall.
Teach us to love and pray
As we move through the day.
Amen
The children also learn a variety of prayers through our prayer of the month. Our prayer of the month for November is the Eternal Rest:
Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them,
May they rest in peace,
Amen.
All the prayers the children will be learning in class can be found at the top of the page.