Reception

Weekly Update - Friday 26th September 2025

Summary of this week:

It has been exciting to start our phonics journey this week, learning the phonic sounds s a t and p. Look out for them when you’re reading stories together or on the labels of food, or signs and notices. The children have enjoyed using their first story map to retell the story of Goldilocks and finding out more about numbers 3, 4 and 5.

We have had our first taste of the busyness of the school calendar with school photographs being taken and the children really showed their resilience in coping with the change in routine and being collected to go for a photograph with siblings. They all really enjoyed that!

The September weather has been kind and our outdoor classroom has been the source of lots of fun learning and exploration. If you follow the Eastwick Instagram account you will have seen some photographs of your happy children on their learning adventure!

Thanks to those of you that were able to come to our open afternoon on Tuesday. The children really enjoyed showing you around their new environment and it certainly helps to build connections for them. We appreciate your support.

Our learning after half term:

Maths	We will practice the skill of subitising, when children can say how many there are in a small group of objects by ‘just seeing’ and knowing straight away without needing to count.
Literacy	We will be focusing on the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. We will be modelling a simple ‘Story map’ to the children and they can have a go at creating their own.
Phonics	This week we will be teaching the sounds i, n, m and d
Vocabulary	over, under, through

Makaton signs: toilet, over, under

Homework:

See if you can spot any of this week's phonics sounds in books or around the environment.

Notices & Reminders:

We are proud of our open-door policy and are always available at the beginning and end of the day for you to pass on any information we need to be aware of. If you would like to chat in more detail about anything, please email us on yearr@eastwick.thpt.org.uk and we can arrange a time that is convenient to us both. If you need to let us know that you have given permission for someone else to pick up your child that day, please telephone the school as we may not have the chance to check emails during the school day.

If you haven’t yet sent in a family photograph for our wall, please do so!! The children are enjoying looking at them and telling one another and us about their families.

Please bring the children in PE kit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning next week for their PE and Forest School sessions.

Welcome to Reception

Please find below presentations from our Reception parent workshops to be held throughout 2024-25, which provide useful information for parents and carers about areas of the Early Years curriculum at Eastwick.

Reception Prime Areas

Infant Reading Parent Workshop Presentation

Contact

To contact the Reception Team, please use this email address: yearr@eastwick.thpt.org.uk.

Eastwick Schools