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 Wright will also be working in RL on Wednesday mornings.

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

Summer 2- Once upon a Time

For our last term in Reception our topic will be  'Once Upon a Time'. We will be reading ' There's no dragon in this story' by Lou Carter. We will also be reading the linked traditional tales , ' Goldilocks and the 3 bears, Hansel and Gretel, The 3 Billy Goats Gruff and The 3 little Pigs.  

Communication & Language

We will have lots of opportunities to develop our Oracy skills this half term as we talk about our favourite stories and characters. We shall be working on actively listening with others and either building on from what they say or sharing a different opinion to them. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This term we will be exploring growing and transitioning into Year 1. We will be thinking about what we have achieved in Reception and what we are looking forward to learning in Year1. We will be spending time playing on the Year 1 playground and exploring the Year 1 classrooms. We will read, ' Say goodbye,...say Hello' which will focus on when one experience ends and another one starts. 

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 Games. We will be practising for Sports Day and playing team point scoring games.

Literacy

We wil be reading ' There's no dragons in this story' by Lou Carter.  We will be looking at the characters within the story, reading and writing clues to guess who they are. We will be writing speechbubbles for the characters and making simple story maps . We will summarise the 3 mainn parts of our story and sequence pictures.  We will begin to think of a new adventure for dragon during our helicopter story sessions and write a 4 part story.

Mathematics

The children will continue to build on their number knowledge through counting and subitising, composing and decomposing numbers.

• Subitising—continue 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 arrangement, 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

• Cardinality, ordinality and counting:

continue to develop verbal counting to 20 and beyond, including counting from different starting numbers

Composition—explore the composition of 10.

Understanding the World 

The children will learn to explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.
We will be visiting Alderley Edge Forest and making maps of the area we visit whilst exploring all the forest has to offer including the caves!

Expressive Arts and Design

The children will safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture,
form to create dragon pictures and models. They will share their creations and explain the process they have used. They will make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.

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. 

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. As we move into the summer term, the children may require sun hats and sun cream for hot weather and for those rainy days- a coat with a hood!

Dates for the diary

Class Photograph Day -  11th June.

Reception Sports Day-  18th June 10:30 - 11:30

Alderely Edge Trip - 24th June 

End of Year celebration

RH—Wednesday 16th July 9am
RBC– Wednesday 16th July 2:30pm
RL— Thursday 17th July 9am

Please look out for school emails with further information!