Reception - Mrs SPEIGHT
What do the children need each day?
- Water bottle
- Blue reading bag
- Reading book and Blue Reading Record Book
- A warm coat, hat, scarf and gloves
Important information
- PE is on a Tuesday. Your child can come to school in their PE kit
- Blue books will be checked daily. We ask that children are reading 3 times a week at home, as a minimum. Please write a comment and sign the blue books each time the children have read.
- Please return Contact and Medical Forms as soon as possible.
Reading Volunteers?
We are also looking for parent/carer volunteers who would like to come into school weekly, to read with the children. Please contact the office, or speak to Mrs Speight or Miss Toolin, if you are interested. If selected, one of the children you will read with will be your own child. Training will be provided. Please note that, before starting, a full (enhanced) DBS check is needed for all adults accepted as volunteers in school.
Spring 2
Our Topic: Animal Madness
Our core books: The mole who knew it was none of his business, Animal Encyclopaedia, Monkey Puzzle
A Spectacular Spring 2
March:
April:
Spring 1
Our Topic: Superhero's
Our core books: Supertato: Veggies Assemble and Little Red Hen
January: What a fabulous start to the new year our Reception children have had. We have looked at and read our core story 'Supertato: Veggies Assemble'. The children have thoroughly enjoyed participating in multiple fun superhero activities. While learning about superheroes, we have looked at how our bodies change during exercise and the importance of keeping our bodies healthy! We have also practised lots of different exercises, learned about our skeletons and talked about making healthy choices when we eat and drink.
To celebrate our core book, we also enjoyed taking part in our very own super hero day and looked at some real life superheroes too! I am sure the children will enjoy sharing their experiences with you at home.
February: We have had so much fun in reception this month! Our core second core story this half term was 'The little red hen'. The children made a such wonderful effort creating a story map with actions to help us retell the story to our friends and hopefully our grownups at home. In maths we have been looking at the composition of numbers up to 8, we have loved using blocks to create number staircases.
February has certainly been a month of learning about celebrations in Reception! We learned all about Chinese New year and even tasted some special foods. We also learned about Valentine's Day and talked all about the people that we love and care about and things we a grateful for. We were able to all enjoy a Valentine’s Disco.
Well done Reception, keep up the fantastic work!
Autumn 2
Destination Celebration
The children have absolutely loved our core story Percy's Snowy Night this half term. We have used this book to prompt lots of discussion about Nocturnal animals. We have also discussed the animals in our book and ordered the story!
The children have enjoyed learning about numbers to 5 in Maths and learning the Part Part Whole concept. We were able to circle all the different parts of a whole animal. We linked this to the nursery Rhyme, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes.
In science we have been learning all about floating and sinking and irreversable change!
We have also enjoyed learning our first Digraphs in Phonics, such as Qu for queen. we are so clever and are showing fantastic progress in all areas!
Autumn 1
Me, Myself and I
The Reception children have had a fantastic start to the school year, getting to know their friends and settling in to the new environment! They have behaved beautifully and are really enjoying the classroom! We have started on our new core books this half term. They have taught us all about friendships, kindness and some very important rules! We thoroughly enjoyed our walk to Grangetown Park this month and also our trip to pick some cool pumpkins at ASDA!
We have also loved our Maths and Phonics lessons. We have started learning numbers to 5 and the first sounds in phonics, to start practising reading and writing!
