Reception

WELCOME TO RECEPTION!

Off We Go!

Our Spring topic is 'Off We Go!’ We will be talking about where we live, our local community and learning the features of a map. We will learn how to follow a simple journey on a map, exploring the journeys of the Gingerbread Man, the Naughty Bus and our own Gingerbread Man local walk! Later in the term, we will think about and discuss our own cultures and traditions, comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between them all.

What are we doing this Spring half term?

This half term we will be looking at the story of 'The Gingerbread Man’. We will be focusing on joining in with repeated refrains within the story. We will continue to practice our concepts of prints, for example finding the title, turning pages one at a time and finding where we start to read. We also talk about the characters and settings in the story. We will begin to write captions and sentences, using adjective to describe the characters and the setting of the story. We will also be looking at a non-fiction text ‘The Farm’. We will be discussing what the term ‘non-fiction’ means, as well as focusing on the features of a non-fiction text e.g. contents page, page numbers, headings. We will use our knowledge of the features of a non-fiction text to create our very own fact-file all about farms and the animals we find on a farm!

In maths, we will continue exploring Numberland. We will visit Numbers 8, 9 and 10! Each number has a character and a home, with a garden. We develop a thorough understanding of each number. We will begin to develop patterns and connections as we meet each number in turn. On a daily basis, we will count in order, using and understanding the Five Principles of Counting- stable order, 1:1 correspondence, cardinality, abstraction and order irrelevance. We will then use our deep understanding of each number to explore the comparison and composition of numbers 6-10.

Important Information

PE will be on a Friday (inside). Children to come to school in school uniform and bring in a PE kit to keep here.
Pantomime- Wednesday 10th January 2023
Share a book- the first Friday of each month. The first Share a book session will be Friday 2nd February 2024 (stickers in Reading Records). 
Our Gingerbread Man Walk trip will be on Thursday 25th January 202 at 9:30 am in the school grounds.

Summer Term Curriculum Leaflet

Curriculum Leaflet Reception Summer Term 2024.pdf

Phonics

At Puss Bank School and Nursery, we use the phonic scheme Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds to teach phonics.

Please follow the link here to gain access to the Little Wandle Parent Information section on their website.

Phase 3 Grapheme information sheet

How-to-say-Phase-3-sounds-Spring

How to say phase 3 sounds with your child.

Please watch this video with your child to support them in saying their new phase 3 sounds. We are learning the most common long vowel digraphs. A digraph are two letters that make 1 sound, hopefully your child will have mentioned this at home to you.