Reception 2025 - 2026
WELCOME TO RECEPTION!
All about Me! and Changes
What are we doing this Autumn half term?
Our topics this term are 'All about Me!' and 'Changes'. We will be talking about ourselves, our families and our friends. Later in the term, we think and find out about festivals special to us, including Diwali and Christmas. We will observe the world around us noticing and talking about the changes we can see in the weather and our environment as the seasons change. To support our learning we will be going out and about to Victoria Park and on an Autumn walk, which is always lots of fun although a little tiring! We will also try our hands at making bread just like the Little Red Hen, an English focus book we will be reading, creating diva lamps from clay, listening and asking questions of our visitors- Mrs Hammond and the school nurses, learning how to brush our teeth with the support of a dentist and many more things beside.
For further information about any of these exciting opportunites and how you can support as a parent please see your class teacher. What an exciting term to look forward to!
What are we learning this half term?
In Maths we will be exploring the numbers 1 to 5. We will start by using our 'fast eyes' to subitise (know how many without counting) dot patterns and objects. We will consolidate our early skills of the five principles of counting- focusing on how to count and what to count. We will begin to explore where numbers sit in the number system and use mathematical language of more and fewer when comparing sets of countable objects. We do all of this with the help of Numberblocks. Occasionally we will watch small clips to help us start our thinking and reasoning trying to use full sentences in our explanations. We love maths and play games outside and in small groups to help us secure our learning, happy counting!
In Phonics we will begin to learn our single letter sounds. We will learn how to say the sound (phoneme) and what it looks like (grapheme). We begin by aurally blending small words said by an adult. We then learn how to say the sounds we can see and blend them together to start to read small words. We are introduced to tricky words, these are words that can not be sounded out, we just need to learn them by sight. Each day we learn how to write a new letter and at the end of the week we play games to match, sort and read words we have learnt so far.
Important Information
PE will be on a Wednesday. Children are to come to school in their school uniform and bring in a PE kit to keep here.
Homework will be handed out on a Friday and collected in on a Thursday the following week.
English Support
Phonics Support
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.
How to say phase 2 sounds with your child.
Please watch this video with your child to support them in saying their new phase 2 sounds.
Maths support
Maths Tutorial for EYFS - find out how children learn to count and understand numbers in the EYFS.
Please watch this video to learn more about 'Number' in the Foundation Stage, in turn this will enable you to support your child at home.
We will be practising writing our numbers, as we are members of a Trust we have been asked to used Numberblocks. Please click on the link to hear the song. Remember you can write your numbers with anything and any where.
How to contact us
Mrs Mallett - RMP.Homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk
Miss Bours- RB.Homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk
Or email admin@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk
We have an open door policy at Puss Bank Primary School and we are always available to talk in the morning or after school. Due to training needs we will find it tricky to speak to you on a Tuesday after school but we are always happy to arrange another time to chat about anything that you wish to raise with us.
If something happens during the day please feel free to telephone the school directly and a member of the office team will relay that information directly to the class teacher.