1. Welcome Otters Parents
Reception Parents Induction Meeting

2. The Otters team
Mrs Dukes
Mrs Wright
Mrs Kaine

3. What does a day in Otters look like?
Put fruit in basket
Pegging in board
- Ready Steady Go time
Inside / outside classroom
with a focus based around
our current topics
Fruit and milk time
- Swap sessions
- Lunch time
- Afternoons are a continuation of our learning using both the inside and outside classrooms.

4. Lunch time routine Meat & vegetarian Red and green token
Eat in dining room

5. Top Tips Independence on arrival
Independently use the toilet including washing and drying hands
Taking coats & jumpers on and off
Zips, buttons and poppers
Recognising their own name
Opening and closing their school bag and fruit pot
Practise getting changed into their PE kits

6. The Early Years Foundation Stage
Prime areas of learning -
Communication and Language
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Specific areas of learning -
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts

7. Reading in school Reading meetings – Banded books for each child
Wednesday 3rd October 9am
Thursday 4th October 2.15pm and 7pm
Banded books for each child
Communication diary – Reading
Library – any volunteers?
You will need a DBS for this
school

8. Phonics Three letters each week s a t p i n
All single letters introduced before Christmas
Multisensory approach using actions, rhyme and song
Phonic boxes
Yellow phonics book

9. Handwriting Continuous cursive style
Starting with an effective pencil grip and good posture
Handwriting patterns
before letters
Develop fine motor control

10. Mathematics
Counting, recognising, ordering numbers and writing numbers to 10 and beyond
Making amounts to match a number
Comparing numbers –‘more than and
less than’
Combining two groups of
objects (addition)
and making groups smaller (subtraction)
Recognise and name 2D and 3D shapes
and use them to create models
Try to use numbers, counting and
shape recognition at home and
when out and about

11. Learning Journey Learning Journey
Each child will have their own learning journey.
This contains photographs, observations and your child’s learning.
We welcome comments and observations from you. At October half term and each school holiday we will send home the observations and some ideas of fun learning opportunities you may like to do
We will share the Learning Journey with you at each Parent Conference and it will be available to look at on Thursdays during the open classroom.

12. Thursday open afternoon
You are welcome to come into the classroom to look at what your child has been learning
Please wait outside for the whole class to be dismissed.
A chance for you and your child to share their learning. However, this may not be recorded on paper or in their books but they can tell you about it.
Please respect the privacy of others and only look at your child’s work

13. The year at a glance Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
1st half nd half
Autumn Term
All about me and my school/ Winter Wonderland
Dinosaurs
Spring Term
Enchanted Tales Amazing Animals
Summer Term
Underground, Overground People Who Help Us
Celebrations and British Values runs throughout the year

14. Please name everything!
Reminders
Please name everything!

15. Reminders Your child needs to have at school every day –
Communication diary
A coat and jumper
A waterproof jacket and a sunhat
A full water bottle
Named fruit pot or bag (one piece)
PE kit (after half term)

16. AOB
Don’t forget to talk to us about your child's readiness for full time school. We are flexible
Allergies
Please write messages on class white board, see teacher at door or ask your child to hand their communication book to their teacher if there is a message
Newsletters and other school communication ed
PPA on a Wednesday afternoon
Parent conferences – Wednesday 7th November 9-3pm and Thursday 8th evening appointments 6-8pm.
Website will be up dated weekly
Look out for the class photos in the Woking News and Mail on the 8th and 15th October 2018.