• Changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
• How we Learn
• Fantastic Phonics
• Reading
• Mastering Number
• Homework
• Useful Links

Welcome to Reception Class!

Welcome to Reception Class, we are so excited to welcome you back for your final half term in Reception Class! We will be working hard and having lots of fun, enjoying our new garden area and practising our independent skills ready for Year 1!

This term we will be continuing our phonics and reading journey, covering phase 4, through our scheme Ready Steady Phonics. We will also continue to develop our maths skills deepening our understanding of numbers 5 to 10, through Mastering Number. In literacy we will be focussing on writing simple sentences independently using our phonic learning, as well as developing vocabulary. Our first focus text will be 'The 100 Decker Bus'. Our second focus text will be 'Somebody Swallowed Stanley'. A range of fiction and non-fiction texts will compliment our focus texts.

Our topics for this half term will link to our literacy work and be based around transport, journeys and maps. These will focus on our school, local area and Runcorn. During our topics this half term the children will be focusing on the parts of the EYFS curriculum that link to Geography, Computing and History. We will learn about simple maps and apply this to our school and local area. We will plan a journey to go on a local walk and then look at landmarks around Runcorn. This will then lead into our history work around the Runcorn bridges and how they have changed. 

Our RE topic this half term will be 'Dialogue and Encounter'. We will be hearing about Jesus' friends around the world and how some of these special friends are Saints. We will focus on St Peter and St Paul and how they spread the good news about Jesus. This will link into friends of Jesus in our own Catholic community, with a visit to church to learn more about this. We will then expand on our learning to include other religions and faiths in our community. 

Please check your child's Seesaw account for updates on their individual learning and photos and videos of all the excting things they have been doing in school. All messages for parents and information about our class and curriculum will also be shared with you on Seesaw.

If you have any concerns or questions then please speak to us at the beginning or end of the day, email the school office or telephone Mrs Marnell to make an appointment.

 Mrs Totterdale - Class Teacher