The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.
Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.
What does your child need for Reception?
- A school uniform and shoes.
- A water bottle.
- A coat.
- A pair of wellies.
- A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
- A smile!
Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.
During this half term we will be developing the children’s social and emotional development.
This involves helping children to develop a sense of seeing themselves as a valuable individual, build constructive and respectful relationships, express their feelings and consider the feelings of others, regulate behaviour accordingly, work and play cooperatively including taking turns with others, and give focussed attention to what the teacher says.
Our new theme for learning is All About Me!
During the topic we will be thinking about what we look like and how we are similar and different. We will be thinking about our families and how families are different. The children will be drawing, writing and painting pictures of themselves and using ICT to record and describe themselves. The children will be reading and sharing lots of fiction and non-fiction books on ourselves. They will be drawing pictures and we will record the children sharing their family experiences. Before the end of the half term we will begin our Autumn topic and explore the different changes we can notice and the different celebrations that will happen around us.
Maths
In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:
- Numbers to 5
- Comparing groups within 5
- Exploring 2D and 3D shapes
- Change within 5
- Number bonds within 5
- Space
Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:
- Five little speckled frogs
- Five little ducks
- Do You Know What Shape it is? (To the Tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
- Repeating Pattern (1st a X, then a X)
Literacy
As part of our Topics we will be exploring a variety of texts;
Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,
- Happy Hand Washing
- I can sing a rainbow
- Five little speckled frogs
- Five little ducks
- What’s the weather?
- Rain, rain go away.
- Five little pumpkins
- One potato, two potato
Phonics
In Phonics, the children will be learning the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.
We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics
Outdoor Learning
The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.
Learning at Home
Your child will bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.
Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.
Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.
Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.
Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu inside their homework book. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.
Happy Learning from the Reception class team.
Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter
