Welcome to Reception! We recognise how important and special this year is for so many reasons and we aim to reflect that in all that we do throughout the year. We start by making sure the children are comfortable in their new school environment. Making friends and building positive relationships with staff is a priority so there is lots of time for play both independent or guided by the adults. Activities are carefully planned around our Talk for Writing texts, this half term we are reading ‘5 stories in 5 weeks’.

We will begin to introduce your child to sounds following the phonics scheme 'Read Write Inc'. We will introduce your child to Fred the frog. Fred can only say the sounds in a word and needs your child to help read the word. Fred will say the sounds and children will work out the word. For example, Fred will say the sounds c-a-t and children will say the word cat. This is Fred Talk: sounding out the word.  

Mrs Wallis and Mrs Firkins 

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Super Reading

Together we used our phonics knowledge to read the word, before shining our torches to reveal the picture to see if we were correct. 

During science week Elsa sent us a letter, telling us that she had frozen the superheroes! 
We then explored different ways to try and rescue them from the ice. 

Superhero learning designing our own superhero capes. 
 

RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch

As well as looking out for birds, we decorated egg by copying the patterns and found the lettered eggs to create our names in the nest.

Exploring 2D Shapes

Printing to create 2D Shape pictures - using circles and triangles.  

Remembrance Day 

This half term we have been telling the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ 

We have been talking about who is in our family and drew pictures for our class 'family gallery' in the home corner. 
 

We have been learning about Autumn