Reception

Welcome to Reception! 

If you are in RM, your teacher is Miss May and if you are in RB, your teacher is Mrs Brown. Your Early Years Lead for Reception is Mrs. Brown. 

Ms Esteban and Mrs Fernandes also support us.

We are looking forward to getting to know each one of you!

Our topics for the Summer Term are called: 'Animal Safari’, ‘Creep, Crawl and Wriggle’, ‘On the Beach’, ‘Move it’ and ‘Moving On’.

Literacy

Our key Power of Reading literacy texts for spring term will be as follows: Elmer, Monkey Puzzle, The Leopard’s Drum, My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Animals, Agh Spider, Do You Love Bugs? Tiddler: The Storytelling Fish, Pirates Love Underpants, The Night Pirates, Commotion in the Ocean, The Tortoise and the Hare, Ruby’s Worry, Saving the Butterfly

We will be exploring these texts through hands-on activities, including crafts, story-mapping and story-telling using props, puppets and masks. The children will use their ever-increasing phonics knowledge to write labels, captions, and simple sentences in relation to the story. 

To support their learning at home, you can continue to practise writing ‘hold a sentence’ and encourage your child to write the sentence down independently using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. Choosing a picture from a story book and asking your child to think of their own sentence will also help their independence. Reading aloud to your child every day can have such an impact on their learning and love of reading. 

Phonics

We follow the Read Write Inc (RWI) phonics scheme. The children will continue to learn how to say and recognise the letter sounds, which are taught in Sets 1, 2 and 3. We will model the correct letter formation, so that the children learn to form each letter accurately. They will continue to gain the confidence to segment and blend, and write simple words using their phonic knowledge.

Children's reading books will match the sounds and words taught. Please continue to practise 'Fred In Your Head' to help your child blend without having to sound each word out loud. At home, please practise reading and writing the red, tricky words. As children are becoming more fluent with their reading, begin to highlight capital letters and full stops when reading at home.

Further information to support phonics is available on the RWI section of our school website. 

Religious Education

We will continue to worship together by taking part in Collective Acts of Worship and we will learn more about God and explore our religious beliefs during our RE lessons. Our topic this term is ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. During this term, we will be hearing the following: The walk to Emmaus, The Ascension, Pentecost, The early Community, and ‘the Glory Be’. Please continue to reinforce this at home and learn prayers.

Maths - Number 

During our Maths lessons, we will be focusing on numbers up to 20 and beyond. We will be learning how to add and subtract numbers under 20, sharing and grouping, and develop their reasoning and problem solving skills. We will also be learning about 3D shapes and their properties, and identifying repeated patterns. 

To extend their learning at home, please encourage your child to look for shapes in the environment and play simple mathematical games: ordering numbers, saying one more/one less, using flashcards, addition and subtraction using physical resources.

General Reminders

• To support reading, please read a story each night with your child modelling expressions and discussing the characters and events. 
• Keep checking the website and Google Classroom class pages for any updates related to Reception. 
• Every Friday is PE. Please ensure your child comes into school in their full PE kit (yellow t-shirt and green shorts or jogging bottoms and trainers with Velcro- no laces). 
• Please clearly label all of your child's belongings with your child's full name and class as we cannot locate missing items which are not named. 
• Please ensure your child has a named water bottle each day. 
• Please remember to book your child's lunch a week in advance via ParentPay. 

We look forward to continuing to work with you during this last term of Reception.

Thanks for your continued support! 

Mrs Brown and Miss May

Is your child starting Reception in September 2022? Read the information below for how to help prepare your child.