Welcome to Reception!

There are 3 classes in Reception -

Class RH - Ms Morrison (Mon - Wed) and Mr Williams (Thurs & Fri), Class RBC - Mrs Birch (Mon - Wed) and Ms Cooper (Thurs & Fri)  and Class RL - Miss Lindsay.  Mrs Daly will aslo be working in RL on Fridays.

Teaching assistants who also work with us are Miss Hadfield, Miss Roczniak, Miss Poulton , Miss Zahra, Miss Rasha, Ms Toft.

Summer 1- Under the Sea

This half term our topic is 'Under the Sea'. We will be reading the non-fiction book 'Fantastic Fish' to learn facts about sea creatures. We will also be reading 'Hooray for Fish' by Lucy Cousins, looking at patterns and prints used in the illustrations. 

Communication & Language

We will have lots of opportunities to develop our Oracy skills this half term as we talk about our favourite sea creatures, sharing our opinions with others. We will also be learning facts about our favourite sea creatures and we will be reading our facts aloud to an audience. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This term we will be exploring kindness. We will be thinking about times when people were kind to us and how it made us feel. We will be reading 'The Rainbow Fish' to support our learning about friendship, sharing and kindness. 

We will also continue with our weekly 'Think Equal' programme. 

Physical Development

We will conitnue with our weekly man City sessions on Monday afternoons. The focus for indoor PE is dance. We will be using our bodies to recreate the waves and move like sea creatures.

Literacy

We wil be reading 'Hooray for Fish' by Lucy Cousins and exploring a non-fiction text called 'Fantastic Fish'  by Emma Linch. We will look at the features of a non-fiction text and we will read simple sentences to learn about sea creatures. We will then apply our phonics knowledge to write our own short phrases and sentences about animals that live in the sea.

Mathematics

We will be learning to:

- practise increasingly familiar subitising arrangements, including those which expose '1 more' or 'doubles' patterns

- use subitising skills to enable them to identify when patterns show the same number but in a different arrangment, or when patterns are similar but have a different number

- subitise structured and unstructured patterns, including those which show numbers within 10, in relation to 5 and 10

- identify when it is appropriate to count and when groups can be subitised

- develop verbal counting to 20 and beyond, including counting from different starting points

Understanding the World 

We will be learning about what lives in the Ocean. We will look at maps to find out about what Oceans are on earth and where they are. We will learn about animals that live in the sea finding out about what they eat, where they live and how they protect themselves.

Expressive Arts and Design

We will explore patterns and printing as an art technique as we learn about the designer Orla Kiely. We will look at patterns on clothing, animals and everyday items. We will apply our new printing skills to make our own sea creature prints. 

Things to remember...

Reading/Book bags

Reading books/sheets will be changed every Monday. The children will also be able to choose a book from their classroom as their "Reading for pleasure" book. Please take the time to read your child's reading sheet/book with them as many times as you can throughout the week. This really helps build their confidence and makes such a difference to the progress they can make. 

Please make sure the children keep their reading books/sheets in their book bags and bring their book bag to school every day. This is so teachers are able to read with your child at any given opportunity throughout the week. 

PE

This half term we will continue with our Manchester City PE sessions every Monday and our indoor PE sessions will be on a Thursday. Our indoor PE sessions will be dance. 

Please make sure that children come to school in their PE kits on their PE day. 

Please also make sure that your child comes to school each day dresssed appropriately for the weather. They will need a warm and waterproof coat as we will go outside to play in all weathers! As we move into the summer term, the children may require sun hats and sun cream for hot weather. 

Dates for the diary...

Parents Evening -  Wednesday 23rd April

Stay and Present-  Tuesday 20th May (9am- 9.45am)

Please look out for school emails with further information!