Firstly, Happy New Year. We hope you had a restful half term break and are as excited as we are to get back to having fun through learning.
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 extending the children’s social and emotional development, looking at dreams and goals and how to make healthy choices.
Kicking Off the New Year with Exciting Learning Adventures!
We’ll begin by exploring the fascinating careers of People Who Help Us, focusing on the vital roles of our emergency service workers. Next, we’ll dive into how these jobs have evolved over time before celebrating the vibrant traditions of Chinese New Year.
From there, our theme shifts to Our World Around Us—where we’ll journey to the coldest places on Earth, compare them to our own country, discover how polar animals survive extreme conditions, and tackle big questions about climate change.
Maths
In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:
- Numbers to 10
- Counting 9 and 10
- Comparing numbers within 10
- Measure – Length, Height and Distance
- Measure – Weight
- Number bonds to 10
Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:
10 Green Bottles, One Big Hippo Balancing, Number Pairs to 10.
Literacy
As part of our Topics this half term, we will be exploring a variety of texts;
Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be:
- Five Little Firemen
- Miss Polly had a Dolly
- Finger Family: People who Help Us
- I’m a Superhero (To the tune of I’m a Little Teapot)
- Paper Lanterns
- Mix a Pancake
Phonics
In Phonics, the children will be continuing to enhance their Phase 1 and Phase 2 knowledge and continue working on the Phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home. The children will begin to learn the Phase 3 sounds and will begin to implement this to their writing.
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 continue to 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, Miss Battersby, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter
