Reception

Welcome to Reception’s Page

Staff Team
Class teacher	Mrs Williams
Learning Support Assistants	Mrs Dicks and Miss Sanderson

Curriculum Information

Theme- Rhythm and Rhyme	During Term 3, we will be learning …
Maths	Spatial awareness, repeating patterns, counting between 6 and 10 items
Literacy	Learning rhyming words and using them to learn poems, learning new vocabulary and applying to situations, writing simple words and captions
Phonics	Phase 3 and phase 3 mastery phonics, segmenting and blending simple words to read and write
Understanding The World	Investigating, sort, and group, different materials such as wood, plastic, glass; know what personal information is and that it is not to be shared online.
PSED	Managing self. KAPOW - Taking on challenge
Expressive Arts and Design	Use joining materials to make a kite Create artwork using a variety of materials Learn and perform new songs, use claves to tap along to the beat of a song.
Communication and Language	Recall an event in order, maintain attention whilst listening to poems and stories, know that you need to look at and listen to the person talking, explain what happened during lunchtime, know and recite 2 poems.
Physical Development	Begin to cut out shapes, control their body to balance on beams and on a balance bike, practice handwriting skills using the ULS program, continue to develop fine motor and gross motor skills through a variety of indoor/outdoor activities.

Weekly Timetable

Monday	Literacy	Group time and continuous provision	Phonics Guided reading	continuous provision	Lunch 11.30-12.30	Maths and group time	PSED and continuous provision
Tuesday	Literacy	Group time and continuous provision	Phonics Guided reading	continuous provision		Maths and group time	Topic and continuous provision
Wednesday	Literacy	Group time and continuous provision	Phonics Guided reading	continuous provision		Maths and group time	Topic and continuous provision
Thursday	Gymnastics	Group time and continuous provision	Phonics guided reading	continuous provision		Maths and group time	R.E and continuous provision
Friday	Literacy	Group time and continuous provision	Phonics Guided reading	continuous provision		Maths and group time	Music and continuous provision

PE Days

PE in Reception is on a Thursday. Please make sure that your child wears their PE kit to school on these days. Our PE kit is plain black shorts, leggings or joggers; plain white or school PE t-shirt; school jumper.

Homework

Phonics will be given out on a Friday. The children can practise writing and saying the taught sounds for that week.

When your child receives a reading book please support your child at home by reading 5 x a week for at least 10 minutes.

Useful Information

To ensure your child is ready to learn, please provide them with a labelled bottle of water everyday. A healthy snack of fruit or vegetables is provided by the school.

Every week a class newsletter will be sent via Tapestry.