Reception 

Weekly Update - Friday 17th January 2025

Summary of this week:

The slight rise in temperature this week has been very welcome for our outdoor learning and lots of the children have enjoyed learning to skip. This is great for coordination as well as learning to work together as a team to help one another. 

This week we have continued to find out about the different jobs of people who help us, including famers, paramedics, vets, police officers and dentists between the two classes.  Thank you so much to Alex M’s mum who came in to talk to all the children about her job as a dentist.   They were fascinated! 

In maths we have been focussing on understanding how numbers increase by one as we count and building ’staircase towers’ to demonstrate this. 

Our learning next week:

Homework:

Maths: Take opportunities to ask the children to work out how many more for numbers up to 5.  For example, if they have 3 carrots on their plate, how many more to make 5?

Literacy: Play games with the tricky words to help the children to read them with instant recall. 

Vocabulary: Talk about the different jobs of people who help us and ask the children questions to find out what they have learned.

Notices & Reminders:

Towards the end of next week we will be starting to find out about Chinese New Year.  If anyone has anything from China that the children could bring to share in show and tell on Thursday afternoon that would be great.  It could be anything from a menu for a Chinese restaurant, a Chinese artefact or a packet of noodles! 

In our art lesson this week we have learnt how to join craft materials using tape, paper clips, split pins and wool.  The children are keen to put their new knowledge into practice so please do keep sending in clean recycling that we can use for box craft.  If you are throwing away packaging materials such as ribbon, tissue paper or wrapping paper, please send them our way instead as the children will enjoy using them in their craft too. Old birthday cards are great for cutting and sticking too! 

A reminder to please keep reading books and reading diaries in the children’s book bag every day. The days that we have our reading practice sessions might change from week to week and it’s important that the children have their books with them.  We have said to the children to simply return their books to their bags after they have read with you each evening.  Hope that helps!  Thank you 

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.