Welcome to Reception Class
Within our Reception year, learning takes place through seven different areas; Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design, Physical Development, Understanding the World, Mathematics, Personal Social and Emotional Development and Literacy.
Autumn Term
This term our topic will be ‘Terrific Tales’ we will be learning lots of lovely stories to inspire our learning. During this term we will be getting to know each other and making new friends. We will meet our buddies and go on a trip with them too.
It was lovely to meet you and your children during our recent home visits and transition sessions. We have been busy getting everything ready for the start of term.
Mrs Oliver & Miss Lloyd (Class Teachers)
Ms Ball, (HLTA)
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff (After School) write in the communication book, send a message on Class Dojo or email.
Reminders
- Children do not need snacks, fruit is provided in school (If your child will only eat certain fruits they may bring something from home (fruit only please)
- If you could please encourage your child to put their drinks bottle on the blue trolley in the morning. There are also baskets to put in your communication books, if you have a message or any letters for the office.
- If your child is happy to play in the playground with their friends in the morning before the bell rings please do encourage this and stand outside the gates or fence if possible. A member of the reception team will be out on the playground at this time. Once the bell rings at 8.30am the children will line up and you are free to leave.
- Once handed out, reading books will be changed twice a week, we would please encourage you to read with your child 5x a week at home.
- Please encourage your child to practise putting their coat and shoes on independently. This will benefit the children hugely and will help them to become more independent as the year progresses.
- PE will be on THURSDAYS please can children come to school wearing their PE Kit.
- Forest School will be on TUESDAYS - they need to wear something that is appropriate. Please provide waterproof trousers to put over the top of Joggers etc, coat and wellies. Please let us know if you can help with Forest School on a Tuesday morning.
- Please label EVERYTHING
As Mathematicians we will be learning to –
count objects, actions and sounds. We will be looking at numbers to ten and learning to recognise and compare them. We will be doing this through short, whole class sessions as well as within our classroom provision. We will learn counting songs and rhymes to help us.
Communication and Language
We will develop our use of language across all areas of the curriculum and use storytelling to begin to orally tell new stories. We will be exploring lots of different areas of our classroom, as well as forest school, to help develop our language. Our topic this term is Terrific Tales.
Continuous Provision
We will continue to provide a wealth of learning activities each week for the children to access. All of these activities are linked to the 7 areas of learning and also incorporate the children's own interests.
As theologians we will be learning about –
Being special: where do we belong?
We will be looking at different groups we belong to and who is special to us
Important dates for the diary –
02.09.25 - First Day of Term.
05.09.25 - Grandparents' afternoon.
09.09.25 - Phonics information meeting (8.30 am - 9.00am)
12.09.25 - Wear what you like day - Wear something ORANGE
03.10.25 - Harvest Festival
24.10.25- INSET Day , no School
w/b 27.10.25 - half term week
19.12.25 - last day of term
Outdoors
Children will have access to the outdoor area throughout the whole day despite the weather. Please make sure that they come to school with appropriate clothing including a warm coat when the weather turns and sun cream and a hat for those warm sunny days.
Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo to keep you up to date with your child's learning journey. Please remember to check on Class Dojo to see what we have been learning about. Remember to add your own photos and comments about achievements out of school – these are fantastic for us to see.
As writers we will be learning to –
recognise and write our own name. We will build our fine motor skills through dough disco sessions and fine motor activities. We will explore mark making, both in our indoor and outdoor classrooms. We will experiment with different marks and how different materials create different marks.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We will use Circle Times to talk about our feelings and how our actions affect others. Through PSHE, we will identify similarities and differences between us all. We will be learning about our school values and how we all work together within the St. James community.
Phonics
We will begin our phonics sessions this half term with looking at environmental sounds. We will explore different sounds, learn rhymes and begin to look at single letter correspondences. We will be using our scheme, Supersonic Phonic Friends and meeting lots of new characters.
This is a useful link to hearing how to pronounce the sounds we will be learning this term...
Understanding the World
We will be learning to explore our senses through natural materials. We will learn about the seasons and changes that we might see.
Physical Development
In PE we will be developing our skills in movement, experimenting with different ways of moving such as jumping, sliding and rolling. We will be making shapes with our bodies and exploring balancing in a variety of ways.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be learning to play different musical instruments and explore the sounds that they can make. We will explore colour mixing and begin to explore emotions through drawings.
