Our Reception Class

A very warm welcome to our Reception class page.  In Reception, our children start their journey by settling into school life and begin to develop into confident, independent learners. I hope you find all the information that we send home useful and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask us. The staff are always on hand both before and after school and throughout the day on Seesaw.

Our Reception Class 2024-2025

The Phonics Scheme we use in Reception is:

• Read, Write Inc                                                                                           

Find out more about Read, Write Inc here

Reading books
All children will be provided with a reading book with words once they have learnt half of the RWI Set 1 sounds and are able to segment words and blend sounds independently.

Homework

At the beginning of Reception your child has been given a homework toolkit (Stripy zip bag) which was kindly paid for by Friends of School. This is to be kept at home and is to be used to help your child complete their homework. Please can you ensure that all the items are put safely back in the bag each time they are used as these need to be used throughout their time in Reception.

Please can you make sure that Homework is returned to school by Thursday morning, so that they can be updated and sent out again on a Thursday evening. Thank you.

Seesaw
Seesaw is our observation and assessment app which is used daily in class to record evidence for your child’s learning journey throughout their year with us in Reception.

Don’t forget to send Miss Nelson observations from home through Seesaw, as it is extremely important that parents are able to contribute to their children’s learning journeys just as much as the practitioners.

Requests
Please can you help!!! We are constantly trying to add to our resources and are always on the look out for the following items: Comics, magazines, prams, dolls, small world toys such as farms/train sets etc. scooters, bikes, jigsaw puzzles, games, dressing up costumes etc. If you are having a clear out  please could you check with Mrs Gornall whether we could use any items before throwing them out. Thank you.

This Half Term: Summer 2 (June – July 2025)

Over the next half term our topics will include:

• Journeys and Transport- Cars, Bikes and Trains (2 weeks)
• Final Assessment Week- EYFS Data Finalised (1 week)
• Heritage Project- What was life like living on the canal in Leigh over 100 years ago? (1 week)
• Journeys and Transport- Boats and Aeroplanes (2 weeks)
• Transition Week- Moving to Year 1 (1 week)  

In our Literacy time we will be looking at the following texts-

• Monster Goes for a Drive- an interactive tale
• The Train Ride
• Life on the canal 
• Letters from Felix
• Mr Gumpy's Outing
   

Before the holidays we were starting to become authors and were beginning to write simple stories with a beginning, middle and end. Over this half term we will continue to become more independent with our writing in preparation for Year 1 and further develop our writing skills, so that it contains more detail and some exciting words.

In RWI we will use all the Set 1 & Set 2 sounds that we have learnt over the year to write simple sentences and continue to learn the remaining tricky red words. 

We will have a new role play area outside which will be an Ice-Cream Parlour and cafe and the enhancements in our Home corner will be include suitcases and preparing for going on holiday.

In our Maths time we will continue to focus on our numbers with the Numberblocks, Numberjacks and Numicon. Other activities will include:

• Odds and Evens
• Composing & decomposing shapes
• Volume & Capacity
• Sorting into 2 groups
• Time- My Day

In our Topic work we will be learning about:.

• Transport- Different forms of transport and when we might use these. (Bikes, Cars, Trains, Planes & Boats)
• Journeys- What types of journeys might we go on? What will we need to take with us? and What might we do when we get there?

Some of our activities will include creating different types of transport using a range of different materials, packing a suitcase, having a picnic, making our own passports, finding out how a car works and looking under the bonnet. Plus lots more....

Our RE will focus on the question  ‘Which stories are special and why‘?'    

 
In this unit, pupils consider the stories that are special to them, giving reasons for why they are special. They will encounter stories from different religious worldviews and find out about why these might be special to a believer. With support, pupils will begin to consider the impact of these stories on the lives of believers. They will learn key events and retell stories from different worldviews remembering key events.     

Our Heartsmart focus will be 'No way through isn't true'  

'No way through isn't true' is about getting up and facing challenges, even when we don't feel like it. The children will learn that in life they will have to face lots of difficult situations that they may feel are impossible to get through, but this isn't the case and if you have courage they will find a way through them.

In our PATHS lessons we will be covering the following units:

• Wk 1- Tired
• Wk 2- Frustrated
• Wk 3- Proud
• Wk 4- Love
• Wk 5- Worried
• Wk 6- Disappointed
• Wk 7- Ending and Transitioning

During our Music sessions we will be developing our skills of listening and appraising whilst learning the songs from the  'BBC- Listen & Play '. The children will learn to find the pulse.

• Wk 1- The Wheels on the Bus
• Wk 2- Down at the Station
• Wk 3- Under the Sea
• Wk 4- At the Seaside
• Wk 5- Fabulous Fun and Summer Sun
• Wk 6- Pirates

Our PE focus this half term will be ‘Games- Unit 1’ and our School Sports Games Value will be ‘Determination’’ 

During this unit of the of work the children will learn:

• Week 1- Cars
• Week 2- Aeroplanes
• Week 3- Cyclists
• Week 4- Buses
• Week 5- Boats
• Week 6- Trains 

Dates for your Diary:                     

PE: Monday Afternoon (Outdoor Play) and Friday Mornings (Indoor PE)