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Our Curriculum
Autumn 2 2025: Let's Celebrate
Welcome back, everyone! We hope you have all had fun at home with your families and are feeling refreshed and ready for more fun this half term. We have an exciting reading list with titles such as Stickman, The Gruffalo, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas in the pipeline. Children will be learning about the meaning of Remembrance Day and also Bonfire Night, using the paintings of Jackson Pollock as inspiration for our own firework art. We will be embracing the darker nights and colder weather by learning about how animals hibernate at this time of year, both in this country and others. We'll be looking at the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh to create our own starry night pictures and we will soon of course be making preparations for our nativity performance. We will be exploring numbers up to 8 in real depth in maths lessons and finding ways to extend and consolidate children's problem-solving capabilities within this range. Phonics continues daily and children will be very soon sent home with reading books containing words. We will be supporting children with writing initial sounds and individual words in adult-led writing sessions. PE is agility and speed, sure to be fun, and RE focusses mainly on the Christian celebration of Christmas.
If you have any questions about any aspect of your child's learning this half term, please speak to a member of the team. A very in-depth explanation of our curriculum can be found above in our 'curriculum map'.
Weekly Update
WB 13th September 2025
What will we be learning about this week?
This week, we will be carrying out some 'plant dissections,' taking apart the different parts of cosmos flowers and arranging them onto some paper for pressing. We will be talking about what the different parts of these plants all do. In other areas, children will be learning about capacity and making estimates about what items best fit into which containers. We will be continuing with Funky Fingers and also reading this week's story, Funnybones, before doing some adult-led writing/mark-making about this story. We will be continuing with phonics lessons, handwriting and we will also be reading some wordless books with the adults in the room to practise our wider reading skills before taking home books with words after the half term holiday. We will also be enjoying some pumpkin art during choosing times. Plenty to be keeping us busy!
Home Learning
At the beginning of each half term, we will upload a selection of home learning ideas for you to try at home. All suggested tasks will be linked to the our learning in the classroom and aimed at being a fun, active and achieveable way for you to develop your child's learning further. We would love to have anything completed at home brought in to class which we can then either display in the room or invite your child to share with their peers in our 'Show and Share' sessions.
Please click here to download our home learning suggestions for Autumn 1:
Letter Formation
Here is a video of how we teach letter formation at Tiptree Heath. Hopefully this is helpful for practise at home.
(This video was made using clips from the YouTube account: Ludlow Learning)
PE
We will be learning about dance during PE lessons on a Wednesday Morning this half term with Mrs Darcy.
Useful website links for Reception:
For a list of general recommended reads in EYFS, click here
For information about how we teach phonics at school, take a look at this page of the school website.