Welcome to Reception Class
Our Teachers are Mrs Usherwood (Mon-Thurs am) and Mrs Donson (Thurs pm and Fri).
Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Hudson.
100 recommended reads for Reception
Are you looking for some high quality books to share with your child? Check out these recommended reads for Reception children. We’d love to hear about the ones you have shared together at home in your blue reading records.
Click on the book to take you to the recommended lists and download the Reception Book List…
Autumn Term
During the Autumn term, our topic will be ‘Me and My Family’. We will be settling into our new classroom and getting to know all the adults and our new friends. We will begin to think about ourselves and our bodies, families and where we live. We will also think about our senses.
In the second half of the term our topic will be ‘Starry Night’. We will be thinking about bonfire night, Diwali and Christmas. There will be lots of singing, dancing and most importantly, GLITTER! We will learn about the nativity story and why it is important to Christians.
Autumn 2: Starry Night
Celebrating Diwali
We have had lots of fun celebrating Diwali together. We were fascinated to learn the story of Rama and Sita and discover the origins of the festival of light. Our celebrations have included making rangoli patterns, using clay to make our own diwa lamps, launching rockets on the field, making 2D shape rockets and, last but not least, making delicious coconut barfi to enjoy sharing with our friends. Happy Diwali!
Autumn 1: Patterns, patterns everywhere…
Autumn 1: Autumn
We have been thinking about the season of autumn. We brought in collections of autumn finds from home and went on an autumnal walk around the school looking for signs of autumn and change. We have created some autumn artwork using leaves and finger paints as well.
Here is a poem we have been learning about autumn…
Spring Term
During Spring 1, our topic is ‘Once Upon a Time…’. We will be reading a range of traditional tales and some alternative versions of these. We will be looking at two stories in more detail, retelling these orally and bringing them to life with some role play.
During Spring 2, our topic is ‘Ready, Steady, Sow’. We will be looking a new live and growth. We will go on nature walks to look for sings of new life and spring time and we will think about Easter.
Summer Term
During Summer 1, our topic is ‘Animal Kingdom’. We will be learning about animal life cycles and finding out where animals live around the world. We are very excited to visit the ‘Langford Lakes’ this term to help us with our topic learning.
In Summer 2, our topic will be ‘Where do I live?’. We will be thinking about where we live and comparing it to other communities. We will also be following and creating maps to explore our local area.
Summer 1 2024 - Our trip to Langford Lakes
We had a wonderful trip to Langford Lakes, where we got to go pond dipping, searching in the dark places and long grass for mini beasts and we got to do a range of different ar activities in the afternoon. We loved having uor lunch together on the veranda and of course, we enjoyed being on the coach!
Spring 2 2024 - Growing
We have been thinking all about what plants need to grow. We prepared some pots with compost and then chose a seed to plant and look after at school before taking it home. Some of us chose to plant a tomato and some of us chose a sunflower. We had two different types of sunflower to choose between- Velvet Queens and Sunspot Sunflowers.
Spring 2 2024 – Welcoming Spring
We have enjoyed learning about the new season and have been sharing what we love about spring time. We went on a spring hunt around school, where we took photos of the ‘signs of spring’. We have also celebrated Easter and learnt why it is important to Christians. We decorated eggs and enjoyed preparing hot cross buns together. They were delicious!
We have been using our imaginations this term in lots of different ways. Take a look at our shop we made in our garden. We used lots of different things from our garden to make the shop, shelves, signs and a cafe. We enjoyed playing together in the shop and cafe.
Spring 1 2024- Forest School We have made a great and muddy start to our Tuesday afternoon forest school! We watched Mel make a fire and heat some apple juice for us as well as making dens, clay faces and exploring instruments in the wind.
Lunar New Year 2024
We have been learning all about China and how people celebrate the Lunar New Year all over the world. We decided to make our own dragons to celebrate the ‘Year of the Dragon’ and held a parade through the school. We also prepared and cooked some delicious vegetables to enjoy with some noodles. We tried our best to master using chop sticks to eat them!
Useful websites and apps for home learning to practise what we have been doing in school
Maths games- Topmarks offers a range of games that can be played on a computer.
Phonics games– Phonics Play offers a range of games that can be played on a computer or iPad. It is no longer free for families so please follow the registration details.
Literacy games– Topmarks also offer some literacy games including phonics ones.
Apps that may be useful
White rose maths app- used in and recommended by school
Busy Things app- used in school for independent learning
Teach Your Monster to Read
Wee Kids Maths
Reading Eggs
Aliens and Numbers