Reception

Weekly Update - Friday 23rd May 2025

Summary of this week:

Another busy week for our Reception classes has seen us becoming authors as we each wrote our own book based on the story Shhh! Our edits included dragons, hippos, rhinos and the Gruffalo even made an appearance in one story. This has been a very motivating text and we are sure that if you ask your children to sing ‘The Giant’s Breakfast’ for you, it will make you smile!

Our learning after half term:

Maths	We will be deepening our understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up from smaller parts through games and practical experiences.
Literacy	Our new text after half term will be Jack and the Beanstalk which will help us to learn about portal stories which take us to another world.
Phonics	The first week back is our assessment week in phonics so in our lessons we will be recapping our prior learning.
Vocabulary	parts of the body, seed, bean, grow.

Personal Social Emotional Development (PSED):

In our Jigsaw lessons this half term we will be learning about our bodies and in the first week we will be thinking about the parts of our bodies.

Makaton signs: where, what, here, there

Show and Tell theme: A drawing or memory of your favourite day of half term.

Song of the week:

Echo Fred

Homework:

Draw a picture of some fun you have had over half term and write a sentence to say what you have done. Bring it in for show and tell.

Notices & Reminders:

PE- Tuesdays- The children need to arrive in their PE kit ready to meet coach Jay for a prompt 9 am start.

Swimming- Fridays

On PE and Swimming days please try arrive at school on time at 8:45 so we can prepare the children (toilet runs etc) before heading to our lessons.

We are going to plant beans after half term and would really appreciate the donation of empty small jars for them to be planted in. Thank you!

We are sending home this term’s tricky words for the children to use at home to help them to practice and develop instant recall. Games such as turning them over and reading the word, hiding them around the room to find or writing them with a stick in sand or with a finger in shaving foam are fun ways to do this. Again, thank you for your support. These are the last of our Reception tricky words!

Please remember that on hot days you can apply sunscreen before the children come into school and send in a named bottle of sunscreen for the children to apply themselves before they go out to play at lunchtime.

Don’t forget to send in a bottle of water every day please, as well as a hat.

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.

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