Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 19th January 2026

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - Own Book Writing - Things that I like…We continue to discuss with the children what is and what is NOT a sentence. Children will practise identifying this. Children will practise rehearsing oral sentences.  With guidance children will create a new page in their book ‘Things that I like’ to discuss an animal they like. We will work with each child at their own stage of writing with each child being encouraged to discuss ideas and orally rehearse a sentence. 

We then examine features of sentences including capital letters, stop signs, finger spaces, and if it makes sense. Can we read the sentence of others? Can we spot mistakes in sentences such as missing capital letters, missing finger spaces.

Handwriting focus letters - m,h,b,p - start at the top, no lifting!

Maths - We will be focusing on the composition of the number 5. The children will build on their understanding that a whole can be made up of smaller parts by acting out and making simple pictures to represent the rhyme “Five Little Speckled Frogs.”

As the frogs move from the log into the pool, the children will begin to recognise that numbers can be made by combining parts in different ways.

Once we have explored the different parts of 5, we will hide some of the frogs under the water (using a blue cloth). The children will then be encouraged to use what they know about the parts of 5 to visualise how many frogs are hidden.

We will then broaden this understanding by playing “How many are missing?” games using a range of objects, for example, counting bears and a cup to represent a cave.

Understanding of the World - This week we introduce maps as part of our Geography learning. We will spend one session talking about what we notice on a simple map of a town or park. Identifying features and talking about how some maps area 'Birds Eye view'. We will think create a map of a park together, thinking about the features we might have on it. Finally the children will be creating their own map of the classroom - plotting out tables, areas and other things. 

PE - on Tuesday our pedal bike coaching continues with coach Ben. He will be coming every Tuesday morning to teach us the fundamentals for riding a pedal bike without stabilisers. All equipment is supplied in school, children need to be in their PE kits on a Tuesday as usual. Game On also return on Thursday for our coaching sessions.

Our termly Class letter is viewable here