Reception

Welcome to Reception

Teacher: Mrs Brodrick

Teaching Assistant: Miss Jordan and Mrs Mallet

Key information

PE day : Monday

New Reading Practice Books: Monday

New Sharing Books from the library: Wednesday

New Sounds and Words: Thursday

Home Learning Activities: Friday

(Please keep Phonics Wallets and Home Learning Books in your child's book bag at all times.)

What will we be learning this half-term?

This half-term we will continue with our theme of Fairy Tales and the children will get the opportunity to bake their own gingerbread man. We will then move on to some topic work about toys, which will include how toys move using push, pull and twisting forces. We will also find out about how toys were different in the past, and we’ll look at some toys and games from different places around the world. The children will continue to learn new phonics sounds each week, including more digraphs. As they become confident with blending, they will start to read Little Wandle Reading Practise books matched to their phonics ability. In writing, the children will begin to write simple sentences. In Maths, children will continue to develop their counting skills (up to 20), alongside deepening their understanding of the composition of numbers through the part-whole model. Children will practise using prepositional language and begin to understand the language of movement such as turning and flipping. They will also learn to name and describe common 2-d shapes. And of course, we will round off the term by learning about the Nativity story and performing our Christmas Carol Concert for parents.