Reception
Welcome to Reception Class
Adults that will help and support you in Reception Class this year:
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Mrs Amos-Simpson |
 Mrs Horne |
 Mrs Whitehead |
Autumn Term 2025
The first half of term activities and learning will be inspired by our learning theme 'Autumn and Harvest' . We will be learning about the season, looking for autumn treasure and harvesting our own fruit and vegetables to make some delicious food. Our author focus is Nick Butterworth and his stories about his woodland animal friends will be used for lots of our learning activities. Later in the Autumn term we will be learning about space with our theme 'Aliens Love Underpants'
We will be using our wonderful outside spaces, and create recipes in our Mud kitchen and explore and utilise our Forest Site as much as we can. We are planning Forest sessions on a Thursday Morning.
In Literacy, through our daily phonics and reading sessions using the Read Write Inc phonics scheme, we will be working on recognising and using our set 1 letter sounds and blending these to read words and sentences. We will be inviting parents to aphonics Reading Workshop later this term. We are working on developing our fine motor and dexterity to develop our core strength and handwriting skills, using Dough Disco and active time. Your child will have the opportunity to choose a library book and will be given reading book on a Monday, later in the year they will also have access at home to the online book your child is working on in their Read Write Storybooks phonics lessons at school.
We will be using Numicon and other practical resources to support and enhance maths learning and are involved in the Mastering Numbers Project where Number Blocks are used. Through practical activities and games there will be daily opportunities for developing a deeper understanding of number. Throughout the year we will be working on recognising and writing and having a really good understanding of numbers 1-20. Through practical activities in the classroom and using our outside spaces, children will be encouraged to develop problem solving skills, use subatising, develop awareness and understanding of different number patterns and hopefully develop confidence and enjoyment when using maths and number. We will also work on recognising the properties of shape around us as well have an understanding of space and measure too.
There will of course be lots of opportunities to be creative, develop imagination, explore and investigate and be physical through daily continuous play provision.
Days that your child will be going to Forest School will usually be on a Thursday and PE sessions will usually be on a Tuesday afternoon. This term we will are developing our skills in games and later on we will be focusing on athletics as we prepare for Sports Day. Please ensure that your child wears PE into school on Tuesday and a warm PE kit on Thursday.
We have sent home WOW vouchers for you to share WOW moments of learning that your child has done at home. We look forward to seeing what you are getting up to at home
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns or would like to offer your help or support in any way
Thank you
Mrs Cathy Amos-Simpson
Reception Class Teacher
Reception Learning Themes 2024-2025
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn Harvest |
| Autumn 2 | Space/ Festivals |
| Spring 1 | Once Upon a Time |
| Spring 2 | Here We Are |
| Summer 1 | Mad About Mini-beasts |
| Summer 2 | Commotion in the Ocean |
Reception Learning 2025-2026
Reception Learning Newsletters 2025-2026
Long Term Overview 2025-2026
long term smsc overview reception 2025 2026.pdf
Early Years Policy
KS1 Reading and Phonics Parent Workshop 2024-2025
KS1 reading workshop power point 2024-2025
Home Learning
In the event of school or class closures home learning, activity ideas, resources and detailed planning for Reception Class will be updated weekly on our class webpage https://littlesmarties.wordpress.com/ Learning can being shared on our class group Facebook page Little Smarties.
Mr Thorne Phonics and other useful curriculum video clips and activities
Free downloadable resouces for teachers and parents to develop fine motor and dexterity Dough Disco and Squiggle whilst you wiggle-meet the creator Shonnete Bason-Wood
Alphablocks Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.
Phonics play Useful phonics games and activities