Welcome to Rabbits Class

In Rabbits Class we have four members of staff. Mrs Carrington is our Class Teacher, Mrs Hattley is our Teaching Assistant (Monday to Thursday), Miss Piddock is our Teaching Assistant on a Friday and Miss Stockdale is our apprentice Teaching Assistant. We also have Mrs Jones who volunteers in the class.

This is the first step into school life for your children. Our Early Years classroom is set up to engage the children in learning through play. We offer a range of exciting activities which aim to cover all the areas of learning: communication and language, personal, social and emotional development, physical development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design. Each day is always different with child-initiated learning at the heart of our daily practice.

Over the year we will centre our play-based learning around different topics from traditional tales, animals, transport, sea creatures, minibeasts and plants to families.

We use our space outside to engage the children in outdoor learning, encouraging the children to make great progress in all areas of the Early Years curriculum.

Reading is a fundamental skill linked to academic success that we focus heavily on in the Reception year. At Charing we use the programme Read, Write, Inc for our Phonics. We will begin learning Set 1 sounds in Term 1 and move onto Set 2 sounds later in the year. Children will have plenty of opportunities to practise and review the sounds they have learnt.

There is an expectation that you read to your child, read with your child or listen to them reading to you at least three times a week to improve their progress and fluency.

Throughout the year we will focus on numbers 1 – 20, encouraging the children to count confidently and develop a deep understanding of the numbers to 10, the relationships between them and the patterns within those numbers. We will be learning about: quantity and recognition, one more and one less, counting forwards and backwards and different representations of these numbers and how to make them in different ways (number bonds e.g. 3 + 2 = 5). We will also engage the children in learning about shape, space and measure too.

We love learning in Rabbits and we are so excited to have a fantastic year together!