Reception

Weekly Update – Friday 27th March  2026

We have finished the term on a high with our Fantastic Hair Day on Friday together with the Friends Easter Egg Hunt! Our week has held lots of Easter themed activities including designing and decorating Easter eggs, making Easter cards, a maths themed Easter Egg hunt around the classroom and toasting and enjoying hot cross buns on the fire in Forest School!  If you follow Eastwick’s instagram account you might have seen photographs of the children having fun with these activities! 

Thank you so much for your generous contributions of hot cross buns. 

We wish you all a happy and relaxed Easter break and look forward to welcoming everyone back for the new term on Monday 13th April. 

Our learning after half term: 

Maths: Developing confidence in counting strategies including counting on from different numbers.  

Literacy: Our new text is the story Peepo!’ by Janet and Alan Ahlberg which we will use to start to compare past and present in preparation for our trip to The Rural Life Museum 

Phonics: We will be learning to read longer words by using the chunking method. 

 PSED (Personal, Social, Emotional Development) To identify some of the jobs the children do in their family 

 Art/DT: Creating a simple observational drawing  

 Vocabulary/ Makaton signs: swimming

Homework:

If you are seeing grandparents or older friends or relatives over the holidays, perhaps you could talk to them about their childhood, the toys they played with and what school was like for them, as a way of starting to think about past and present. 

Notices & Reminders:

Next term will see us beginning our Friday swimming lessons which we know the children will love!  Thank you to those parents who have already volunteered to help.  If anyone else has a current DBS and can support us we would really appreciate any help – the more the better!  Our slot is 9.15-1.45 in small groups. 

If the sun is forecast for swimming days, please apply sun-screen to the children before they come to school.  Rash vests are also a good idea if they have them. 

 Please remember to keep your child’s books and reading diaries in their bag each day.   

Orange Class change their books on either Thursday or Friday 

Yellow Class change their books on either Wednesday or Thursday. 

If the children haven’t brought their books back we can’t give them the new one to take home which is always disappointing for them

We hope this will be a useful link to the NHS website to help you understand when it is safe for children to come into school as well as those occasions when you may need to keep them at home. 

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/ 

Contact

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