Reception 2025 - 2026
Welcome to our Reception page
Our topic this half term is based around story 'Gigantosaurus' by Jonny Duddle.
This term we welcome our Chester University BA student, Miss Adhikari, to join us in our Reception class.
We have started our dinosaur activities by making a list of everything we already know about dinosaurs, and it's a very long list!
We have found some dinosaur eggs in our classroom and once we have managed to hatch the babies we will be learning about the life cycles of other egg laying creatures. We will be using art straws to design and make dinosaur skeletons and also using our observation skills to look closly at the features of different dinosaurs and at how we can categorise and sort them. We will learn about fossils and the Victorian fossil hunter Mary Anning and have lots of dinosaur songs, dances and stories ready to share. We will also be talking about frienship and ways in which we can show we are good friends.
PE continues to be on a Thursday and we will be working outside as much as possible this term, with team games and activities to help us to be ready for Sports Day.
We are now working in Phase 4 in phonics, which consolidates our learning of all the graphemes we have learned so far and also helps us to read longer words. There are no new sounds to learn but there are new Tricky Words. Please see these attached here.
Thank you for all the reading you are doing together at home. Please continue to share a few pages each time you read with them, aiming for about 10 minutes, three times a week. This really helps to build the children's confidence.
In maths we continue to learn with The Numberblocks and will be looking at counting to and beyond 20 so that we can become familiar with the pattern of counting within the 10s. We will also be focusing on numbers that go together to make 5 and starting to look at number bonds to 10.
We will continue to do Drawing Club sessions, where the children enjoy making up funny, silly, scary and revolting things to enhance characters, story settings and adventures. It is really helping with their writing, drawing and mark making skills too.