Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 10th November 2025

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - This week the children will continue to draw, make marks and write in their own non fiction books about their special person. We follow the sequence of ‘we talk, we draw, we write/mark make and we share’ with the work of all children valued. 

This week we focus on two important writing skills:

1. How many sounds can I hear?
2. How can I write that?

Children will apply and practise these skills to their own ideas with adult support.  We will support children to be ‘ready to write’ sitting at a chair with two feet on the floor. 

Maths - We will be focusing on comparing quantities. The children will be encouraged to compare the number of objects in two sets by matching them one-to-one. We will discover that when objects are matched and none are left over, the two sets have the same quantity. By practically matching objects, the children will begin to develop a sense of how numbers relate to one another in order, laying the foundations for future mathematical fluency.

Language plays an important role in this learning. Adults will support the children in using and understanding the terms ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’, and ‘an equal number’ when describing and comparing sets of objects. Since we are focusing on countable items, we use ‘fewer than’ instead of ‘less than’, and ‘more than’ instead of ‘greater than’.

Understanding of the World - This week we will learn more about Remembrance Day, and what this means. We will talk about the special people who helped our country and what the symbols are for remembrance at this time. We will have a go at creating our own poppies during our learning and exploring time. 

This week is also Science Day in school, some of the older children will be sharing an assembly about their recent science experiments. We will be starting our own experiment, making predictions about what will happen and talking about what we notice. 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here