Reception

Weekly Update - Friday 17th October 2025

Summary of this week:

We have had another fantastic week of learning in Reception! This week we have been exploring the story of ‘Room on the broom’ by Julia Donaldson and the children have really enjoyed signing and re-telling the story in our talk for writing sessions. During Forest school we learnt how to use the art area correctly and even had a go a making our own paint using chalk. We have been continuing to build up our phonics sounds and are enjoying learning how to blend and read words. In Art we learnt about ‘abstract’ and ‘figurative’ paintings and enjoyed using our fingers to create our pictures.

We loved meeting with you at our parent’s evenings this week. It is lovely to hear how happy and positive the children are about school. We have really enjoyed our first half term with them. We hope you all have a wonderful half term and are really looking forward to more learning adventures when we get back!

Our learning after half term:

Maths	We will be building our ‘subitising skills’ (don’t count say the amount!)
Literacy	We will be continuing to share the story ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. We will be creating our own story maps and listening for the initial sounds to have a go at writing words.
Phonics	This week we will be teaching the sounds h, b, f and l and the tricky word ‘the’
Vocabulary	fire, firework, bang, whizz, flash

PSED (Personal, Social, Emotional Development): What are we good at?

RE: Giving

Art: Scissor skills

Makaton signs: fire, firework

Homework:

You should have received a copy of our learnt phonics graphemes to have a look over at home. Maybe the children would like to play ‘teachers’ and make them into their own pack of flashcards.

Your children will come home with some number cards and some subitising patterns. Keep these as a resource to use at home throughout the year. You could play matching games or go on a number hunt around the house.

Keep reading lots of stories with your children at home. Maybe they will spot our tricky words ‘is’ and ‘I’ in the text.

Notices & Reminders:

Final call for a family photograph if you haven’t already sent one in! The children love to look at them and tell their friends and us about their lovely families! Please email a phot across and we will happily print it.

Please remember to bring a coat with you every day! Especially now the weather is starting to turn a bit chilly.

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