Welcome to Reception!
I am so excited for your child to join our school.
Thank you for visiting our class webpage, we look forward to keeping you updated with posts throughout the wonderful year.
Working closely with your child we have:
Mrs Abrahams,
Miss Daly, Miss Fryer, Mrs Gibbons
Our PE day is Thursday please arrive at school wearing your kit
Mystery reader!
We invite you to come and read with your child and their class. The children really love this and parents/carers we have had, have loved doing it! If you or a close family member/friend would like to come and read to your child please see me (Mrs Abrahams) to book your slot.
Our Shared Area
Autumn term 1
In this first term we will focus on settling into the daily routine of school and exploring within the classroom, shared area and outside. We will meet our new class peers for the first time and make many new friends at Holy Family.
We will be starting our daily phonics sessions, where we will be introduced to a new sound every day so we must attend on time so we don't miss out. The sounds (graphemes) that will be taught this term are:
s a t p i n g o c k ck
In maths we will focus on numbers 1, 2 and 3. We will teach other skills through these numbers. We will introduce maths vocabulary by compaing the numbers. For example, when comparing one and two we will talk about one being less than 2 and 2 being 1 more than 1. This introduces the vocabulary more than and less than. We will compare the value of each number and how we can make the value using maths equipment (tens frames/numicon). At the end of each number we well throw a little party to celerbate the number.
We will look at patterns and how to create an AB pattern (a pattern with two things repeated).
In RE we will be looking at God's world and how it was created in 7 days. We will also be talking about how God loves every one of us and how we are all unique and special. Within worship, we will be looking at how we dress our altar together and how it is a precious time spent together to reflect and pray. We will introduce children to our daily prayer routine which is followed throughout the school.
Our topic this term will be people who help us (Science link), we will look at roles within our community that support us daily such as dentists, doctors, construction workers and emergency services. We have an inspiring roleplay corner set up ready for the children to roleplay with resources that will allow them to engage in creative and imaginative play.
Phonics
Each week your child will continue to bring home a new reading book containing the sounds they have been taught that week in school.
We recommend reading with your child daily and leaving a comment in the reading record provided.
Please return your child’s reading pack to school every day.
Please see the video below which shows how your children learn to pronounce each sound in school, please feel free to have a read through the parent information slide which will give you a little bit of information on how phonics is taught in Reception class.