Reception 2025 - 2026
Mrs Wheatcroft
Welcome to our Reception page
Our topic this half term is based on the Woodland Trust book 'A Walk in the Woods' and follows two children and their dog as they explore the changes in nature across the four seasons. This provides us with wonderful opportunities to learn about life cycles, the weather and suitable clothes, maps, watching cress seeds grow, looking after our birds by making fat balls, freezing and melting, learning about nocturnal and diurnal animals and even looking up at the starry night sky. Our learning will also be reflected in a range of art and music activities.
The children are now learning the next set of letters and sounds in our phonics lessons which are mostly new digraphs and trigraphs. Please see the attached file below about Phase 3 sounds.
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 subitising, at the 'staircase' pattern of 1 more and at numbers that go together to make 5.
Our PE sessions continue to be on Thursdays. Our focus this half term is Dance and we will be using the theme 'Jungle'.
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.