Welcome to Reception!

Miss Fletcher-Jones and Miss Lamb are the class teachers and Mrs Smith and Mrs Racher are the teaching assistants across the Year R and 1 Base. On this page you will find information about Reception class news, pictures of things we've done and more.

Early Years

To find out more about Early Years at St Luke's, please visit our Early Years page.

Reminders for the Autumn Term 2024

Arrival and Collection Times

All children should enter and leave school via the external Year R/ 1 base doors.

All children should arrive between 8.45am – 8.55am.  

All children should be collected at 3.20pm. 

Breakfast Club & After School Club -  Children in Year R, 1 to 6 in Breakfast Club should arrive as normal and be taken to the Breakfast Club room. They will be taken to their Classroom ready for lessons. Breakfast Club will be open from 7.45am. After School Club will be open until 5.45pm. 

Stationery

We will provide this equipment where required.

P.E. 

Children in Class R will need to ensure that their P.E. Kit is in school on a Wednesday and Thursday. P.E. Kits should consist of jogging bottoms, shorts, a house-coloured t-shirt, jumper and trainers.

Maths

As a school we use Maths No Problem. To find out more, visit https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/parent-videos/ to watch videos all about how we teach Maths at St Luke's. The table below highlights the topics that we will be learning in Year R in the Autumn Term.

Phonics

In the Autumn term, the children will be learning Phase 2 sounds and how to blend sounds in order to read words, using the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Phonics scheme. You will be given an overview of what sounds are being learnt each week at your child's home visit. To find out more about how we teach phonics, please visit our phonics page https://www.st-lukes.hants.sch.uk/phonics/.

Our Class Country

We will be learning all about England. We will investigate where it is in the world and find out facts about England.

Our Classroom Environment

Through our engaging and stimulating classroom environment, children have lots of opportunities to play, explore, learn actively, create and think critically. This area of the blog will be updated with photos as the term progresses.

On a welly walk, the children discovered some 'mushrooms.' We talked about toadstools and mushrooms and they were introduced to the word funghi.  We also talked about the dangers of touching funghi.  After that, we put our Maths skills of matching and comparing to the test and played a game of leaf snap!  The children gathered some different leaves then played the game with a partner, looking for how their leaves were the same.  Some matched in colour whilst others matched in shape.

Creating leaf creatures!  Friday 11th October

After sharing the book Leaf Man by Lois Elhert, the children had a go at making some of their own leaf creatures.

This week, the children have enjoyed making lego marble mazes, playdough robots, shape rockets and pipe cleaner mermaid dolls!  They have also played games including snakes and ladders and flip/show/build.

This week has felt very Christmassy! The children have enjoyed making paper chains and decorating the class Christmas tree. They have raced wind up Christmas characters, made salt dough hanging decorations (drying and ready to paint next week!), fed the reindeer carrots by rolling a dice to see how many, had a go at wrapping presents and played with the Winter Wonderland small world.