Reception
Welcome to Reception Class
Adults that will help and support you in Reception Class this year
Mrs Amos-Simpson, Mrs Horne, Mrs Whitehead, Mrs Salt and Miss Wassman
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Summer Term 2025
The first half of term activities and learning will be inspired by our learning theme 'Mad about Minibeasts' . We will be learning about insects and bugs around us and will be watching our own caterpillars grow and develop into butterflies and building our own Mini-Beast Mansion. Our author is Eric Carle and his stories will be used for lots of our learning activities. In the second half of the summer term our activities and learning will be inspired by 'Commotion in the Ocean'
We will continue to looking for seasonal changes as spring changes into summer. We will continue to use our wonderful outside spaces, and create recipes in our Mud kitchen and explore and utilise our Forest Site as much as we can.
In Literacy, through our daily phonics and reading sessions using the Read Write Inc phonics scheme, we will continue to work on recognising and using our set 1, 2 and 3 letter sounds and blending these speedily to read words and sentences. We will not only be working on fluency but expression too. We are continuing to work on developing our fine motor and dexterity to develop our handwriting skills, through fun handwriting teaching sessions and using Dough Disco time to help us with this. Your child will continue to have the opportunity to choose a library book and will be given reading books on a Monday and have access at home to the online book your child is working on in their Read Write Storybooks phonics lessons at school. We can't wait to show you our story during our Stories4School Book Launch too.
We will continue to use Numicon and other practical resources to support and enhance maths learning and continue to be 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 Friday 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.
We will keep you updated on our Class Group Webpage on our school Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/knightlowcofeprimary The school page is a super way to keep up with Knightlow News and our own class group page is a great way to show WOW moments of learning that your child has done at home as well as a super way for us to keep you updated too.
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 2024-2025
Reception Learning Newsletters 2024-2025
october-learning-newsletter 2024
Long Term Overview 2024-2025 Updated
long term smsc overview Reception 2024-2025 updated
Early Years Policy 2024-2025
KS1 Reading and Phonics Parent Workshop 2024-2025
KS1 reading workshop power point 2024-202
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