Reception

Welcome back to a new half term!

We hope you have had a lovely break and are looking forward to a brand new topic.

Our topic for this half term is ‘Traditional Tales’. We will be enjoying various traditional tale stories, focusing mostly on ‘The Little Red Hen’ and ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ and using these stories as a stimulus for our learning across the curriculum.

We will be creating a text map together to verbally retell the story of The Little Red Hen, and using our Phase 2 and 3 phonics to label the characters and write sentences about them. We will also be looking at changing states of matter by making our own bread for the hen! Throughout our learning on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, we will be recreating and retelling the story using props, ordering size and trying porridge.

Alongside traditional tales, some of our topic work will be based around seasonal change. We will be looking at what happens in Spring and what we might see at this time of year. Throughout March, we will be celebrating a number of different themes such as World Book Day and Mothering Sunday.

As we continue with our Mastering Number and White Rose scheme for maths, we will be looking more closely at numbers 9 and 10, focusing on the composition of these numbers and learning our number bonds to 10. For our Shape, Space and Measure phase, our focus will be on patterns and 3D shapes.

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.

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 grab me at the school gate! I will keep you updated with all the fun learning we are doing together in school on the school website or regularly on class Seesaw.

Thankyou as always for your continued support and we are very much looking forward to another busy term of learning!

Miss Austin and Miss Burney