Reception

Weekly Update Friday 4th October 2024

Summary of this week:

This week the children have enjoyed learning about Jack and the beanstalk. The children have been re-telling the story using the vocab from the story and have enjoyed drawing pictures and creating story maps to represent their retelling. The children have been learning around the numbers 2 and 3 and have been exploring with the concept of this number in real life examples in the classroom.

Our learning next week:

Maths	Our focus this week for maths is subitising. We will be continuing to use our ‘perceptual’ subitising – instant recognition – by saying the number of sounds that they can hear such as claps or drum beats without counting.
Literacy	Our text this week is Going on a bear hunt. After learning the story, we will have a go at writing our very own version of the story. At the end of the week, we will go on a bear hunt with the children to inspire their creative writing skills.
Phonics	This week we will be introducing the graphemes g, o, c, k and start to blend the sounds together to read simple words.
Vocabulary

This week's Homework Challenge:

At school the children have had the opportunity to practice writing the grapheme of the day during our phonics lesson and in independent learning. At home you can encourage your child to show you the graphemes they have learnt.

Join in with a phase 1 phonic game by reading a rhyming story. Every time you come across a rhyming pair in the story your child signals, perhaps with a clap, that they heard a rhyme. See how many you can hear in one story and then try again with the same story later and see if you can hear more.

Notices & Reminders:

The weather has definitely changed and all the children need a pair of wellies in school to be able to access our outdoor classroom. Please send some in if you haven’t already.

Please remember to only bring in fruit, vegetables, plain breadsticks or rice cakes for snack time and please only water in the water bottles. It is tricky for the children to understand if they see others bringing in juice and biscuits.

Please email us a family photo if you have not yet done so. The children love showing their families to one another and they can be a real comfort if the children are missing you!

Don’t forget to order lunches by the end of Saturday evening!

On Monday 7^th we have our first parent workshop, The Prime Areas. Mrs McCormick will be hosting the workshop which will include helpful hints for home and some interactive activities and games.

Presentation Slides

2023 Induction Evening Presentation slides

Infant Reading Parent Workshop Presentation

Early Years Curriculum Parents Information Evening Slides

Curriculum Maps

Curriculum maps will be updated on a half-termly basis in 2023-24.