Reception

Welcome back to our final half term! We hope you have had a lovely and restful break.

Our new topic for this half term is ‘Travel Here, Travel there…’ We will be reading the story Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson and will be using the story as a stimulus for our learning across the curriculum.

Our topic work will be based around the beach. Using ‘Sharing a Shell’ as a stimulus, we will be designing our own beautiful shells and then writing adjective sentences to describe it. We will be talking about the seaside and looking at different under the sea creatures, and comparing what the seaside was like in the past compared to now.

We will then be expanding our learning to different countries we might go on holiday, and will be learning all about France and African safaris. Reception will be continuing their learning on seasonal change and enjoying the joys of summertime.

As we continue with our White Rose scheme for Maths, we will be deepening our understanding of numbers to 20, focusing on the composition of these numbers and learning about doubling and halving within 10. For our Shape, Space and Measure phase, our focus will be on patterns and making simple maps. 

The children will need pumps in school in a named bag ready for their PE sessions. Children will not need a full PE kit whilst in Reception. We are looking forward to our Sports day!

Reading at home is super important in EYFS and every child will be provided with a ‘read with me’ reading book to share with you at home. As their phonic knowledge develops, they will then receive an additional book which is phonetically decodable and they can read themselves. Reading books are collected in 3 times a week and will be changed once they have been read twice at home.

Homework will continue to be sent home on Wednesdays and collected back in on Mondays.

Children can bring a healthy snack into school for snack time and until they are 5 will be provided with milk.

If you wish to contact me, do not hesitate to message me on class seesaw or come for a chat at the end of the day.

I will keep you updated with all the fun learning we are doing together in school regularly on class Seesaw and weekly on the school website.

Thank you as always for your continued support.

We are very much looking forward to our final term of learning together!

Miss Austin and Miss Burney