• 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 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, recapping phase 3 and starting 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 phrases and sentences using our phonic learning, as well as developing vocabulary. Our first focus text will be 'Seed to Plant'. Our second focus text will be 'The Woolly Bear Caterpillar'. A range of fiction and non-fiction texts will compliment our focus texts.

Our topics for this half term will compliment our literacy work and be based around plants and minbeasts. 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 learn about the different parts of plants and investigate what plants need to grow and stay healthy. We will be using our garden area to grow different vegetables and herbs, following the growing curriculum. Following on from this we will think about lifecycles, focussing on caterpillars in our classroom. We will be using clay to create our own models showing one part of the lifecycle. We hope to enhance our garden area by bulding a bug hotel for all the minibeasts we learn about. 

Our RE topic this half term will be 'To the ends of the Earth'. We will be hearing about how Jesus returned to his friends, leaving them the gift of the Holy Spirit before returning to his Father. We will hear the story of Pentecost and think about how this is celebrated in Church. Following this we will also be thinking about the work of the early Christian community and how this is continued in our own church and parish today. 

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