Reception

Welcome to Reception Class

2024-25

Welcome Letter

Curriculum

Autumn 2

This half term we are continuing with our phase 2 phonics learning. We are also moving on with our math kearning and will be looking at the numbers 1-5 throughout this half term. One of our books to look at is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', so we will have lots of exciting activities linked to this. Keep a look out on Tapestry to keep up-to-date with our learning.

Have a look at some pictures of our learning so far:

Autumn 1

The children have been settling in amazingly. They have quickly picked up the rules and routines, and are already building lots of new friendships. This half term we are busy starting our phonics journey and completing baseline assessments.

Take a look at these photos of us engaging in our play and exploring our new environment.

2023-2024

The children have loved their golden treat summer fun day! Penalty shoot out, bouncy castle, ice cream and splat the teacher.

The children had a great morning for their graduation and impressed us all with their dancing skills. Thank you to the parents for all your support.

Outdoor Fun

We are loving this dry weather! Learning outside the classroom is so much fun. 

Our class trip

What a great day we all had! First, the farm came to our school for us to meet the animals. We got to pet, hold and stroke the animals. We also learnt many facts about each animal. 

In the afternoon, we visited our local park across the road. We all had great fun playing on the different equipment. 

We ended the day with a picnic. We ate lots of yummy food!

Summer Term 2

Music

We used the djembe drums for the first time in reception. We worked in pairs taking turns to play the drum. We had to say 'walking, walking' and bang the drum in the middle to keep the beat. Banging in the middle is called the bass. How well do you think we did?

The children have really impressed us all this halftime in Maths! We have completed lots of activities to embed the children’s knowledge and understanding of numbers up to 10.

Thank you to all adults that came to stay and play! The children loved showing you all some of what we have been learning around Easter.

The children had a great day dressing up and celebrating world book day.

The children had a great day celebrating Chinese New Year. We tried a selection of food, made Chinese lanterns and masks.

Autumn 2

The children have enjoyed our new story this half term 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Have a look at the photos of us outside on our own bear hunt.

We have been investigating waterproof materials. We made predictions about which materials would be waterproof and then tested it out in the water tray.

Autumn 1

Everyone has been settling in fantastically. It has been lovely to see the children growing in confidence as each day passes, and getting to grips with their new routines. Already we have looked at a lot of new things including dough disco and phase 1 phonics.

Have a look at these photos from our first few days in Reception.

National Read a Book Day

Wednesday 6th September was National Read a Book day. The children celebrated by choosing a book to read and look at. Once they had finished their story they swapped with their friends and spoke about the book they had looked at.

2022-2023

Curriculum Maps

Welcome Letter

Summer 2

Class trip

The children had a great time on our class trip to Blackpool Circus. They were very excited on the coach rise their, and we had lots of questions about what they might expect to see. We had a competition to see who see Blackpool Tower first which kept them entertained for a while as they kept pointing to different things. Once there the children sat beautifully to eat their lunch before the show started. The were amazed by the different acts and there was lots of exciting shouting and clapping. They had a great time. Lot's of very tired children on the way home, which led to a very quiet coach trip home!

We couldn't take photos during the performance but any photos we do have will be uploaded to Tapestry for you all. 

P.E.

We have been busy preparing ourselves for sports day during our P.E. sessions. Children have been practising working together in their groups, taking turns and practising the different events they will be competing in. Have a look at some photos of one of our lessons.

Summer 1

Our last term before moving in to year 1, and we have been very busy. In maths we have continued to work on our number bonds and numbers to 20. have a look at these photos of us using numicon to shpw our number bonds to 10.

In phonics and English we have been working on writing sentences. We have to remember capital letters, full-stops and finger spaces. It's alot to remember but we are starting to get there. Here is one of the sentences we have written.

We have also been busy planting sunflowers. We can't wait to watch them grow.

Spring 2

We had a great time celebrating World Book Day. Take a look at some of the photos:

Spring 1

This half term we are moving on to our phase 3 phonics sounds. Lots more of us are blending (reading) and segmenting (spelling) which is great to see. 

We are also learning about the Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the rabbit. We are finding out all about how the Chinese New Year is celebrated. We also had a great time trying different Chinese foods. To say Reception enjoyed it would be an understatement! It was nice to see them tucking in and coming back for seconds.

Autumn 2

This half term we have had lots of exciting things going on. We had a visit from the police where we got to sit in the police car, and had a go at using a baton. We also had a visit from some pipers for St Andrews Day. It was very loud!!

In our learning we have continued to discover more phonic sounds, including our first digraphs. We are now also moving on to learning the correct formation for our letters. This half term we are looking at the ladder letters - l, t, i, j, y, u.

Autumn 1 

This half term is all about us getting to know each other, exploring our new classroom, and learning the new rules and routines of the class. The children have settled in really well and it has been lovely seeing them establish new friendships already. We are now starting to introduce our first maths unit 'Just Like Me!', and have also begun our phonics learning. 

Take a look at some pictures of us engaged in our learning:

Newsletters 2022-23

Start of Class 2022-2023

End of Class 2021-2022

Summer term 2022

We are reading the book Anna Hibiscus Song. It is all about a little girl who lives in Africa and is very happy. We looked at African patterns on fabric and we have designed our own. Here are some of our pictures. 

These are musical instruments from Africa that we are playing. They are made from wood. They have seeds outside or inside to make the sound.

We have been playing boomwhackers in music lessons. We read the colours on the music to play.

We have been reading the book Handa's Surprise. Here are some pictures of us acting out the story using props and dressing up.

We looked at a set of pictures from the story. We worked in pairs to sequence them in the right order.

In craft we painted bubble wrap and then pressed fruit template shapes on top to create a spotted effect. We really enjoyed doing this activity.

SPRING 2 2022

EASTER CRAFTS GOOD TO BE GREEN TREAT 

We planted an apple tree and named it 'Apple'!

RED NOSE/NON-UNIFORM DAY

WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD

We have been reading the book What the Ladybird Heard. We have a copy of the book as a play. We used masks of the characters to act out the story.

On world book day we all made a bookmark with our design or pattern on it. We went to year 2 and listened to stories read by the the teaching staff. In the afternoon we did a book scavenger hunt. We worked in pairs and had to find pictures in books. We then wrote the title of the book on our sheets. We also drew a character from our favourite story. This is our classroom door with all our pictures on it.

Spring 1 2022

On February 1st it was Chinese New Year. We made paper dragon pictures using lots of different shapes and we did colour by number tiger pictures as it is the year of the tiger in the chinese zodiac. We acted out the story of Chinese New Year using head bands with the animal pictures on. Joel was the emperor congratulating all the animals for crossing the river safely. The poor cat was too late to be a zodiac animal as the rat pushed him off the bull's back. That is why cats and rats are not friends. To finish off our day we were very lucky because Bella's mum brought in some amazing Chinese food for the children and staff. It was delicious. She even brought fortune cookies for us to take home.

In PE we practised jumping off the apparatus tables. Some of us found the higher table challenging to jump off and held a teacher's hand to give us confidence.

Miss Weall asked us what we would like as the new role play area. We decided we would like a castle. We bought some new things with the money kindly donated by parents, goblets, gold plates, some dressing up clothes and some foam swords and shields. The castle looks amazing. Some of us have made our own castles using cardboard boxes.

We made some shields with pictures that mean something to us. Here are some of us making them.

We have been reading a poetry book in English. We learnt the poem 'I am Rose' off by heart to recite as a class. The we looked at a poem called 'A Circle of Sun'. We acted out part of the poem. Here are our actions.

Autumn 2 2021

We wore our jumpers for Save the Children Christmas jumper day. We also had our Golden treat afternoon doing Christmas activities - colour by numbers, dot-to-dot, spiral snowmen and paper chains. We had a super day.

Autumn 1 2021

In English we have been reading a book called The Naughty Bus. In the book, the bus drives through a plate of food, doesn't pick up passengers and ends up falling in the pond because he is being silly. The Naughty Bus came to join our reception class. The next morning he had disappeared. We looked everywhere for him.

We looked everywhere. Then... Mrs Barrand and Mrs Sherrett from the office came to see us. The Naughty Bus had been in the office and taken lots of things belonging to the staff in the office. What a naughty bus!

The next morning, look what Naughty Bus had done.

The class gave Naughty Bus a yellow card. The next morning Miss Weall was shocked. Naughty Bus had made an even bigger mess. It took us ages to tidy it up.

Reception class gave Naughty Bus a red card and said that if he was naughty again he would have to leave reception class forever.

The next day...

... we got a letter that said the Naughty bus was sorry and that he would now be a good bus. We let him stay in our classroom.

In RE we explored how Christians celebrate giving a name to a baby. We talked about godparents and their role. Then we got our 3 dolls from the home role play and acted out a baptism/christening for each doll. One was christened Tiara, one Jomy and the third Mia. All the children acting the roles of mum, dad and godparents promised to look after the 'babies' and to make sure they always had everything they needed. The rest of the class also promised to take care of the 'babies' too. Some children acted out the role of the vicar and made a sign of the cross with water on the dolls foreheads. Here are some of the pictures from the lesson.

Look at some of the amazing learning we have been doing through continuous provision.