Reception

Welcome to Reception’s homepage! Reception is such an exciting year, full of hands on learning and play. We are very excited to settle in and for the fun to begin! Take a look at what we have been learning on our class blog!

Reception Team

Class Teachers: Ms See, Ms McQueen and Ms Ricketts 

Autumn 2

This term we will be learning all about celebrations and how we celebrate. This will include exploring Bonfire Night, Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas. We will use this theme to guide our literacy activities as well as our learning about the world around us. We will also continue to look at the changing seasons. 

In phonics we will continue learning our phase 2 sounds, including several digraphs. We will continue learning more tricky words, beginning to read short phrases and spelling CVC words. 

In maths, we will be using the 5 fingers on our hand to support our counting and recognition of larger numbers. We will practice counting up to and beyond 20 and recognising the ‘teen’ numbers. We will also be comparing amounts.

In P.S.H.E. we will continue our work on the Zones of Regulation. We will be learning more about the PANTs rule using the NSPCC resources. We will also continue having circle times to help us learn how to manage conflict.

In P.E. we will begin doing gymnastics and will explore moving through and around different obstacles. 

In R.E. we will continue exploring Christianity. Our Big Question will be – Why is Christmas special for Christians? We will learn about the Nativity story and take part in our infant production to share this with the rest of our school community. 

Autumn 1

This term the focus will be settling the children into school. The children will take part in lots of activities related to this theme, like making self-portraits, practicing writing their name and sharing information about their family and home. The children will be given tours of the school and will get to know all the people that work within it. 

We will explore lots of stories related to this theme, like Owl Babies and The Colour Monster, and will use these to do some writing activities. The children will practice retelling these narratives and will engage in various creative activities during their independent play. 

We will begin our phonics lessons and will start learning to recognise and write our first graphemes. 

In maths we will practice automatically recognising amounts up to 5 and explore the composition of these numbers. We will also practice sorting objects and making simple patterns. 

In P.S.H.E. we will begin learning about the Zones of Regulation and how to identify and manage our feelings. We will also do lots of circle times to bond as a class and learn how to manage friendships. 

In P.E. we will be experimenting with different ways of moving and we will be learning to jump and land appropriately. 

In R.E. we will exploring Christianity and the question – Who made this wonderful world? We will explore this through lots of hands on activities, Bible stories and discussion.

Timetable