Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 2nd March 2026

World Book Day - Thursday 6th March - Children can come dressed as their favourite book character. This can be as simple as a coloured t shirt and the relevant book. Please do not feel obliged to buy anything new for this event. We will be sharing lots of stories on this day, and take part in special activities too. 

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - Our current literacy unit focuses on the following skills - to retell a story, parts with exact repetition and parts in own words, to create a story map, to understand what a description is, to be able to describe (orally first and then to record on paper), to write sentences with words, using a capital letter and full stop, to identify sounds in words using our ‘segmenting’ fingers, to begin to use digraphs in own writing and spell tricky words correctly using our tricky word sound mats for support and to re-read our work to check it makes sense.

The very hungry caterpillar ate lots of different foods. We noticed that some of these we liked too, some of these we didn’t like and some we hadn’t even heard of before! This week we will have a go at food tasting and describe what we taste, thinking about how the food looks, smells, tastes, how it feels, and what it sounds like when we bite into it! We will record our own descriptions. 

We will then create our own menu for the very hungry caterpillar, selecting some of our own favourite foods. Children will be encouraged to ‘have a go’ at segmenting the words they want to write and use plausible spelling using the sounds they know. 

Children will have sound mats and tricky word mats to support their writing.  We will remind children about pencil grip using the ‘pinch and flick’ method.

 

Maths - This week, the children will be building on their comparison skills. They’ll be exploring how numbers up to 8 relate to one another, with a special focus on ordinality—thinking about where each number sits in the counting sequence.

Language plays a big part in this learning, so adults will be modelling key phrases such as more than, less than, and equal to to help children describe these number relationships. Because we’re looking at each number’s position in the count, we’ll be using less than rather than fewer than throughout the week.

Understanding of the World - We will look at the life cycle of the butterfly in more detail, and learn the new vocabulary egg, cocoon, chrysalis, hatch. We sequence some images with a partner and try to describe the stages of the life cycle in our own words, and using this new vocabulary. 

DT - On Friday we end the week thinking about food waste, and the food we may waste in our class e.g. at snack time. We will talk about the impact this has and think about our own ideas of how we could reduce food waste in our classroom. What could we invent? How could we reuse banana skins - for soles of shoes perhaps!? 

PE - We will have pedal bike coaching on Monday and Tuesday this week with coach Ben. We will also take part in a coaching session with Game On on Thursday. 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here