Reception

Welcome to Reception!

Mrs Blogg is the class teacher and Mrs Lee is the teaching assistant. On this page you will find information about Reception class news.

Phonics Workshop

A copy of the latest Phonics Workshop PowerPoint will be added after the next parent phonics workshop in the Autumn. Please practise phonics as often as you can with your children at home.

Talk For Writing

As a Talk 4 Writing school, we place emphasis on children learning to orally retell different types of texts using story maps and actions. We ask all parents to support children with learning these texts at home orally, so that children can use them to create their own versions.

The table below highlights the text types and texts that we are learning in Reception. The table will be updated and added to throughout the year. Please download the texts and story maps and practise retelling them.  Aim to retell the texts with actions and expression!

In Talk 4 Writing, we will be learning our cumulative tale called The Little Red Hen. When we can retell the text, we will innovate it to make it our own (e.g. changing the details, characters or the story setting). We will draw a new story map and learn to write sentences from the text, using our phonic knowledge and practising our letter formation and spelling of our tricky words.

During the Autumn Term, we will be learning our Phase 2 phonics sounds. We will also be learning to read and spell some new tricky words which will be outlined on the latest phonics timetable. Tricky words are words that you cannot sound out. 

Maths

In Maths, we will be recognising and ordering numbers to 5 and then 10, counting up to 5 objects carefully, counting out up to 5 objects from a larger group and comparing two groups of objects, saying when they have the same number.