Welcome to Reception! Our teacher is Lauren Bowe. She is assisted by Hazel Gaines. We follow an emergent curriculum that is based upon the needs and interests of the wonderful children in Reception.
Most of the children in our Reception class came to our Nursery and so we are lucky enough to have already formed relationships with them by the time they come to us in Reception. We also welcome some children into Reception from other Nurseries and it is always lovely to make new friends.
Early Years can be the child’s first experience of the wider world, outside of the family home. It is therefore essential that this experience is varied, rich and of the highest quality to ensure that strong foundations are built to enable our children to progress through life successfully. We support our children in becoming capable, confident individuals who have high self-esteem and social competence. We have highly skilled, enthusiastic educators who work hand in hand with parents and the community to provide the best start for all of the children in our care.
During the Reception year, children progress rapidly and develop the skills that are essential for lifelong learning. They work on both adult directed tasks and have lots of opportunities for child initiated learning. Reception children begin their day at 8.50am (they can come in from 8.35am) and stay with us until 3.15pm. Lauren and Hazel work very closely with Reception. We have a breakfast and after school club available daily to both Nursery and Reception children. For more information about this service please click here.
If you have any questions or want to find out any further information about our unit, then please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help you!
Useful Information for Parents and Carers:
Reception Long Term Plan
Reception Long Term Overview 2024 2025
What we are learning in Reception this half term…
In Reception this half term we will be continuing our wonderful topic; Who will we find in our books?
Across this half term we will be looking at books written by popular children’s authors. Throughout this we will look at the setting and compare it with other familiar stories settings. We will be discussing the characters and talking about various versions and opinions. We will be looking at story retelling, sequencing as well as what the author may want us to learn from the story. Over the half term we are going to keep a tally on the books we have read and see which author has been the most popular.
In literacy we will be focusing on sentence oracy and how to write a simple sentence. We will be modelling how to use the skills we are taught in Read Write Inc to help us become independent writers. This half term we will be having a big push on forming our letters correctly.
We will be working really hard in phonics to read words and captions with the sounds that we already know. The children will be learning some new sounds and applying them to read words and captions. Theses sounds are the set 2 sounds: ay ee igh ow oo oo (u) ar or air ir ou oy. We will be working hard to read and write Christopher Crocodile’s tricky red words I the to no go into he she we me you be they all and are. We will be reading and writing captions and sentences using our phonic knowledge.
In maths we will be continuing to deepen our understanding of the numbers up to 10, thinking carefully about the composition of numbers. We will use this knowledge to explore subtraction facts and solving simple mathematical problems. We will Continue to deepen our understanding of subitising where we can recognise the amount of objects without needing to count them. We will be applying our knowledge of the composition of numbers to support our subitising skills to subitise numbers up to 10 noticing smaller amounts and knowing what they add up to.
E.g. I can see 5 and 2 so that makes 7.
A great way to support this at home is to use dominoes!
We will be learning how to form our numbers correctly using formation rhymes as well as using large movements to support this formation in ‘Squiggle while you wiggle’. Here is a link to the formation rhymes that we use in school: http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Numeracy/Number%20Formation%20Rhyme%20Cards.pdf
It would be great if you used them at home to support your child with their number formation. Remember, it can be written with a pencil, but it you could also work on this by writing in mud, glitter, paint, in sand at the beach, by pushing toy cars through paint etc…
We will be working on our ‘fast fingers’ to show the numbers to 10 without needing to count them and talking about how the numbers are made up such as ‘9 is made of 5 and 4 more’. We will be exploring sharing numbers evenly and exploring the patterns in numbers beyond 10. We will continue to compare numbers and also begin to estimate numbers of objects. We will be perfecting our counting skills, working on numbers beyond 10. In addition to this we will be playing the ‘treasure track’ game to apply our problem solving skills and develop our understanding of number bonds to 10.
We are excited to visit Blue Reef Aquarium this half term and compare this to where we live as well as learn about some of the creatures that live in rock pools. We are very excited for a busy but fun filled half term.
Things to remember:
Book bags and water bottles in school every day
Tuesday book changing and reading for pleasure book changing day
Monday and Fridays are P.E. days
Dates to remember:
Friday 20th June The Great Get Together
Thursday 3rd July Moving up afternoon
Monday 7th July Grovetonbury
Thursday 10th July EYFS Gibside Visit
Monday 14th July Moving up afternoon
A Parents guide to EYFS
CBeebies – Alpha Blocks
CBeebies Get Squiggling
Crick Web Early Years Games and Activities
Dough disco
ICT Games
Number Formation Rhymes that we use in school
Teach your monster to read
Top Marks Maths Games
Phoneme pop! A fun interactive game to support letter recognition
Phonics Games
We have been having lots of fun learning in Reception!
