Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 12th May 2025

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - This week we use ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell to inspire us to write our own letters to request a pet. What will we choose? Will it fit in our house? Will we have a big enough bath to keep it in? Children will independently create their own booklets or labelled pictures of their favourite animals.  We focus on the following skills:

• Write simple sentences using finger spaces between words.
• Use developing phonic knowledge to spell words which match their spoken sounds.
• To write some letters correctly using correct starting points. 
• Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense
• Enjoy creating texts to communicate meaning for an increasingly wide range of purposes, such as making greetings cards, tickets, lists, invitations and creating own stories and books with images, and sometimes with words in print and digital forms.

Maths - This week, the children will review the composition of the numbers 6 to 9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then begin to explore how 10 can be composed. They will also develop a sense of the ‘ten-ness of 10’ by making their own collections and pictorial representations of 10 objects.

When exploring how 10 can be composed of 2 parts, the focus is on developing the children’s ability to subitise the parts in structured arrangements. A key representation to support this will be the double five dice frame. The children will be encouraged to recognise a larger part of 10 when it is presented in the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then subitise the smaller part. They will also be encouraged to see how finger patterns can be used to represent 2 parts of 10, using the ‘fingers up and fingers down’ approach that was used when exploring the composition of 5.

Expressive Art and Design - This week we will become artists and look at the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We will discuss some of his art pieces, talking about how we think he achieved them, what we like and what we don't like. We will then go outside to find some natural materials to create our own masterpieces! The opportunities are endless! We will make sure we take photos of our work so that we can display them in the classroom, whilst leaving all the natural materials outside. 

Bike Coaching will be on Wednesday again this week, the children enjoyed their first session last week and we hope they're keen for another go! SuperStar sports will also be coaching a session on Friday. 
 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here