Hello and welcome to our Reception class page!

Ms. Boardman is the class teacher and Mrs Oldman and Miss Jubb support in the mornings and Mrs Hope supports in the afternoon. Mrs Hague usually teaches the class on Thursday morning when Ms Boardman is out of class planning for the following week(PPA)

Our class page will be updated on a half-termly  basis so that we can share our learning journey with you as it unfolds over the academic year. 

This term we will be exploring the wonderful world we live in and how marvellous we are.  Through our learning we will be thinking about the philosophical question, 'What makes me different?'

This term we will be getting to know each other and making new friends. We will learn the routines and rules we need to follow to be a successful learner.

We will be looking at the world around us by looking at the season of autumn and going on an autumn walk. We will think about harvest and celebrate the wonderful world God has created.

We will learn poems. Leaves are falling, Chop ,Chop Choppity chop and Five Little Pumpkins which will develop our language and help our memory skills.

Our learning will be based on the books Owl Babies, Peace at Last, Percy the Park Keeper and Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Little Red Hen. We will be learning about family and the importance of belonging and caring for each other.

In Maths, we will be learning about grouping and sorting. We will be finding the same and looking closely at the amounts. We will be practising our touch counting and looking closely at the numerals and amounts to five. We will begin to understand that different amounts can make the same number.

In Literacy, we will be growing a love of stories and books through Drawing Club. Children will listen to a story and will draw a character or setting from the book. We will extend language through the book by identifying and talking about five new words  in the book and discuss their meaning. We will also use actions to accompany the word .

In phonics, we will begin our journey of learning to read! We will follow the Red Write Inc.  programme of learning and will learn phase Two sounds. We will have phonics daily and will practice writing the grapheme and learning the phoneme. We will do lots of games and activities to develop our concentration skills and our oral blending. We will be listening to Fred the Frog ‘Fred Talk’ word and we will copy Fred and say the word.

In RE , we will begin to understand that God make this wonderful world for us. We will talk about and identify some of the wonderful things that God created.

Children will bring home a reading for pleasure book that you can read to your child. Once children are able to blend ,they will be given a reading book to share with someone special at home, which needs to be returned weekly and a note recorded in their reading record book.

Our P.E. day is Wednesday. Children need to come to school in their black P.E. kit. We will be doing lots of movement and balancing in our first P.E. lessons.