• Changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
• How we Learn
• The Way, The Truth, The Life
• Fantastic Phonics
• Reading
• Mastery in Number
• Homework
• Useful Links

Welcome to Reception Class!

Welcome back Reception Class! We have lots to look forward to this half term and are excited to continue our learning.

We will be continuing our phonics and reading journey, moving onto phase 4 with our scheme Ready Steady Phonics. We will also continue to develop our maths skills deepening our understanding of numbers 6 to 10, through Mastery in Number. In literacy we will be focussing on writing simple sentences using our phonic learning, as well as developing vocabulary. Our first focus text will be the non-fiction text 'Seed to Plant'. Our second focus text will be 'The Wooly Bear Caterpillar'.

Our topics for this half term will compliment our literacy work and be based around plants and minibeasts. During our topics this half term the children will be focusing on the parts of the EYFS curriculum that link to science and art. We will invesigate plants, thinking about what they need to grow as well as the different parts of plants. We will have lots of hands on experiences growing and using plants for different purposes using 'the growing curriculum.' We will then move onto our second focus text, watching how caterpillars change in our classroom and making clay models of the different stages of the lifecycle. Our school grounds and weekly forest school sessions will help us to fully embrace these topics

Our RE topic this half term will be 'New Life'. We will be thinking about the stories of Jesus appearing to his friends in the time after the resurrection. Our themes will be surprise and hope, thinking about what we can see in the world around us to support this. We will explore putting our trust and belief in God and Jesus just like the disciples did.  

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