Reception

Welcome to Reception's Learning Page

MEET THE TEAM

Mrs Littlewood

Miss Hunter

Miss Thomas

Miss Harrison

Our main driver project this half term is:

This project supports children with settling into the new rules and routines of school and encourages them to make new friends and feel confident in their class. It teaches children about being helpful, kind and thoughtful at home and at school. This project also teaches children how they are unique and special, the importance of friendship and how people in their family, school and local community are important and can help them.

Support your child at home by:

1. Communication & Language: Talk about our family – Look at family photos and encourage your child to name people, describe what they do and talk about who lives in their home.

2. Personal, Social & Emotional Development: All about me – Talk about what makes your child special, their likes/dislikes, feelings and things they enjoy doing with their family.

3. Physical Development: Community walk – Go for a walk around your local area and look for familiar places such as the park, shops, school or library. Encourage your child to walk, balance, climb and move safely.

4. Literacy: My family story – Read a story about families or communities together. Afterwards, ask your child questions about the characters and encourage them to draw a picture or mark-make about their own family.

5. Mathematics: Count in our community – While out walking, count houses, doors, cars, trees or signs. Compare quantities using words such as more, less, same, big and small.

6. Understanding the World: Who helps us? – Talk about people who help in the community, such as doctors, nurses, firefighters, police officers, teachers and shop workers. Look for these roles during a walk or through books and photographs.

7. Expressive Arts & Design: Make our community – Use boxes, paper, Lego or recycled materials to create your home and local community. Add people, shops, roads, parks and other familiar places.

Children can access home learning activities by logging onto Seesaw. These are updated on a regular basis and support learning that is taking place in the classroom.

Our companion project is:

This project teaches children about the natural changes that happen during the season of autumn, including how the weather changes, why trees lose their leaves and how wild animals prepare for winter.

Support your child at home by:

1. Communication & Language: Autumn walk and talk – Go outside and talk about what you can see, hear and feel. Introduce words such as crunchy, windy, chilly, wet, colourful and fallen.

2. Personal, Social & Emotional Development: Autumn feelings – Talk about how the changing weather makes your child feel. Make a cosy autumn activity together, such as sharing a story or making hot chocolate, and discuss feelings and family routines.

3. Physical Development: Leaf collecting walk – Collect leaves while walking. Encourage your child to bend, stretch, balance, jump over leaves and carry a small collection safely.

4. Literacy: Autumn story time – Read an autumn-themed book together. Ask questions about the characters and encourage your child to draw a picture, make marks or attempt to write an autumn word such as leaf or rain.

5. Mathematics: Leaf counting and sorting – Collect different leaves and count them. Sort them by size, colour or shape and use mathematical language such as more, fewer, bigger, smaller, same and different.

6. Understanding the World: Explore seasonal changes – Go outside and look for signs of autumn. Notice changing leaves, cooler weather, shorter days, conkers, acorns and animals preparing for winter.

7. Expressive Arts & Design: Autumn leaf art – Use collected leaves to create a picture, collage or leaf rubbing. Encourage your child to choose colours and talk about what they have created.

Again, don't forget to look out for the fun, weekly activities on Seesaw and also look what we have been up to in class on class dojo.

Maths

Here is our overview for this term:

Key books that we'd recommend that will support your child(ren's) understanding in this terms maths:

• Zero is the Leaves on the Tree by Betsy Franco • None the Number by Oliver Jeffers • Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno • I Spy Numbers by Jean Marzollo • The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson • Five Small Stars by Elizabeth Matterson and Madge Bugden • Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson • Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen • Balancing Act by Ellen Stoll Walsh • A Beach for Albert by Eleanor May • Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne • Sidney the Silly Who Only Eats 6 by M.W. Penn • Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore • 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle • Kipper’s Toybox by Mick Inkpen • Quack and Count by Keith Baker • Simon Sock by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet

Literacy

This half term we will be focusing on:

Giving meanings to marks as they draw.
Recognising and writing own name.
Writing recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.
Forming lower-case and capital letters correctly.
Reading simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words.
Reading individual letters by saying the sounds for them.
Using one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.
Using a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.
Drawing story maps.
Using phonic knowledge to write captions and sentences.
Using stories to create opportunities for writing across the areas of provision.
Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense.
Writing short sentences with words with known sound-letter correspondences using a capital letter and full stop.

Reading and Phonics

We are beginning our ELS phonics journey. Your child will begin to learn the phase 2 sounds.

We will be segmenting words with sounds we have learnt, then blending the sounds together.

We will continue to practice to read the harder to read and spell words daily.

Books are changed every Friday and we ask that children practice reading at home at least four times a week.

Check out the following links to help at home:

How to pronounce pure sounds

How to blend words to read

This grapheme sheet and harder to read and spell words will be sent home but click the button below to see it online.

Key Days:

Both Reception classes will be doing PE on a Friday this half term.

Reading books will need to be returned to school every Thursday in order to send out a new book on a Friday. When reading with your child at home please sign, tick, initial, use a sticker or comment to acknowledge they have read at home.

Please ensure you bring your child's reading book to school every day to support reading in school.

Grapheme Sheet for Parents

Grapheme Sheet for Parents

Harder to Read and Spell Words

Here is our Reception Class Charter challenge sheet. You can also download a copy by clicking on the image.

Download all the Charters as a PDF file