Reception 2025 - 2026
Welcome to our Reception page
Our topic this half term is based around the story 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet.
This great story provides us with lots of opportunities to learn about different vegetables and how they grow. We will be looking at the different ways and resources we may need to free the evil peas from the ice cubes and will be experimenting with ways to make the ice melt more quickly. We will be having a go at growing our own carrot tops and will be looking at the patterns and shapes of different vegetables when they are cut open and using them to do some printing patterns.
We will also be looking at different superheroes and thinking about what super powers we may like to have and why. We will also think about the superheroes in our lives, like our families and friends and the people who help us in our community.
This term we welcome our Chester University BA students, Miss Adhikari and Miss Williams who joined us in our Reception class at the beginning of the term.
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 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 together, aiming for about 10 minutes, three times a week. This really helps to build the children's confidence as well as their fluency.
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 at number bonds to 10. We will be using Rekenreks to help us with our understanding of number bonds and will be noticing and creating repeating patterns and looking at sharing and doubling numbers to 10. We will look at sorting vegetables for different criteria and will be weighing, measuring and comparing. We will be collecting and analysing data around our favourite vegetables.