Reception

Welcome to Reception's Learning Page

MEET THE TEAM

Mrs Littlewood

Mrs Dalby

HOW CAN YOU HELP WITH YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT?

Mrs Wilson

Mrs Fox

Miss Harrison

Our main project driver this half term is:

In the Me and My Community project, your child will learn about the school community and building friendships. They will explore the school grounds and find out about all the people in school who are there to help them. They will explore how they are special and unique and how everyone’s family is different. They will take part in practical activities to support them to build new friendships and explore what makes a good friend. They will also find out about people in the community who help us, including doctors, nurses, and the emergency services.

Support your child at home by...

Look at family photographs together and discuss who is part of your family and extended family.
Look at baby photographs and talk about how they have grown.
Look at any childhood photographs of parents and grandparents.
Talk about the things you like to do together and places you like to go.
Draw a picture of people in your family.

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 secondary project driver 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...

Go on a walk around your local area and talk about what happens to trees and plants during autumn. Take some pictures to share at school.
Collect leaves, seeds, nuts and berries to add to an autumn collection.
Make some bird food to feed the birds as the weather gets colder.

Again, don't forget to look out for the fun, weekly activities on our learning journal 'Seesaw' and what we have been up to in class on 'Tapestry'!

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Maths

Here is our overview for this term.

Our focus will be to

Count forwards and backwards from 0-20.
build and notice patterns with numbers beyond 10
increase a quantity by a given amount, while continuing to work within 10
See and understand that a quantity of a group can be changed by adding more.
See and understand that a quantity of a group can be changed by taking some away.
Select 3D shapes for a specific purpose
Explore how shapes will appear when rotated.
Manipulate shapes by exploring moving, turning, rotating and flipping shapes to fit into the spaces provided.
Explaining shape arrangements using positional language
Compose and decompose shapes
Find 2D and 3D shapes
Explore sharing and grouping objects
Play with and build doubles

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

• Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno • Monster Counting Book 1 to 20 by Frances Mackay • 13 Ways to Eat a Fly by Sue Heavenrich • The Real Princess by Brenda Williams • One Moose, Twenty Mice by Claire Beaton • 20 Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street by Mark Lee • Jack the Builder by Stuart J. Murphy • Monster Math by Anne Miranda • 1 is One by Tasha Tudor

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.
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 continuing our ELS phonics journey. Your child is learning the phase 2 and 3 sounds.

This half term we will be learning all about recognising phase 2 & 3 letters, segmenting cvc 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. These have also been sent home with any phonics gaps for your child to practice. Books are changed every Friday and we ask that children practice reading 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 spell and read words have been sent home but click the button below to see it online.

KEY DAYS

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

Reading books will need to be returned by Thursday in order to send out a new book on Friday. Please ensure you bring your child's their reading book to school every day to support reading in school.

Grapheme Sheet for Parents