Welcome to Reception!
I am so excited for your child to join our school.
Thank you for visiting our class web page, we look forward to keeping you updated with posts throughout the wonderful year.
Working closely with your child we have:
Mrs Abrahams,
Miss Daly, Miss Fryer, Mrs Gibbons
Our PE day is Thursday please arrive at school wearing your kit
We invite you to come and read with your child and their class. The children really loves this and parents/carers we have had, have loved doing it! If you or a close family member/friend would like to come and read to your child please see me (Mrs Abrahams) to book your slot.
Our Shared Area
Autumn term 2
We continue our daily phonics sessions where we will introduce a new sound every day.
Last terms graphemes: s a t p i n g o c k ck
Last terms Harder To Read Words: I, the, no, put, of, is, to, go, into, pull, as, his
This terms graphemes: j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, nk, ai, ee, igh, oa, es
This terms Harder to Read Words: he, she, buses, we, me, be, push, was, her my, you.
Our daily phonics lessons will support us with our writing. This term we will look at applying phonics to our writing whilst also continuing to talk about the marks we are making.
In maths, we will continue to teach important maths skills through the numbers. This term we will focus on 3, 4, 5 and 6. We will continue to compare the numbers using key vocabulary (more than/less than/greater than). We will order numbers whist we compare them. We will talk about the operations addition and subtraction. We will also look at identifying 2d and 3d shapes.
In RE we will continue to practise the sign of the cross. We will also continue to learn new prayers that other children in school say. This half term we will be looking at God's Family. We will create a family tree of our own family before looking at God's family. We will spend lots of time learning about advent and how advent is preparing us for Christmas. We will use the nativity story to help us understand that Christmas is a celebration of God's son 'Jesus' being born.
Our topic this term will be focussed on celerbations. We will talk about the different celebrations we celerbate.
Thursday 23rd October
This afternoon, we had our very first buddy time with Year 6. We were super excited to meet them for the first time. We headed down to the library so that they could read a story to us and then had lots of fun playing outside. It was wonderful to see so many smiles, hear lots of laughter and see new friendships blossoming.
Autumn term 1
In this first term we will focus on settling into the daily routine of school and exploring within the classroom, shared area and outside. We will meet our new class peers for the first time and make many new friends at Holy Family.
We will be starting our daily phonics sessions, where we will be introduced to a new sound every day so we must attend on time so we don't miss out. The sounds (graphemes) that will be taught this term are:
s a t p i n g o c k ck
In maths we will focus on numbers 1, 2 and 3. We will teach other skills through these numbers. We will introduce maths vocabulary by compaing the numbers. For example, when comparing one and two we will talk about one being less than 2 and 2 being 1 more than 1. This introduces the vocabulary more than and less than. We will compare the value of each number and how we can make the value using maths equipment (tens frames/numicon). At the end of each number we well throw a little party to celerbate the number.
We will look at patterns and how to create an AB pattern (a pattern with two things repeated).
In RE we will be looking at God's world and how it was created in 7 days. We will also be talking about how God loves every one of us and how we are all unique and special. Within worship, we will be looking at how we dress our altar together and how it is a precious time spent together to reflect and pray. We will introduce children to our daily prayer routine which is followed throughout the school.
Our topic this term will be people who help us, we will look at roles within our community that support us daily such as dentists, doctors, construction workers and emergency services. We have an inspiring roleplay corner set up ready for the children to roleplay with resources that will allow them to engage in creative and imaginative play.
Phonics
Each week your child will continue to bring home a new reading book containing the sounds they have been taught that week in school.
We recommend reading with your child daily and leaving a comment in the reading record provided.
Please return your child’s reading pack to school every day.
Please see the video below which shows how your children learn to pronounce each sound in school, please feel free to have a read through the parent information slide which will give you a little bit of information on how phonics is taught in Reception class.