Reception Weekly Focus 25.06.18

In Reception this week it is a busy week!! We will be continuing our topic focused on the story 'Billy's Bucket' by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons.

The children will get creative and have the opportunity to make their own under the sea wax relief pictures. 

In Phonics, we will be recapping all previous sounds learnt but focusing on the digraph 'er' and the trigraph 'ear'. 

In Maths, we will be focusing on counting in 2's where the children will use the Splat square and 100 square to count in 2's. There will be a 2's number hunt. 

In Topic, the children will listen to Noah's Ark, linking to our Maths focus. The children will also have the chance to see some real live farm animals in school on Tuesday as some animals from Wellgate Farm will be visiting EYFS. 

The children will continue their Guided Reading sessions. The children will spend Friday morning completing a rotation of different activities in their class which range from guided reading, guided writing, independent reading & phonics activities.   


We would like to welcome as many parents to attend our Open Day this Thursday where you are invited to come in and look through your child's work from the year. The session times are 9.15 - 11.00am and then 1.30 - 3.00pm. 

Reception Weekly Focus 11.06.18

In Reception this week we will be continuing our topic focused on the story 'Billy's Bucket' by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons. 

In Literacy, the children will re-listen to our focus story and look at non-fiction books hopefully learning a little bit about different sea creatures.

In Phonics, we will be recapping all previous sounds learnt but focusing on the digraphs 'or' and 'ur'.  

In Maths, we will be focusing on counting in 10's this week where the children will use the Splat square and 100 square to count in 10's. There will be a 10's number hunt and the children will be introduced to the idea of multiplication by showing them the sign and using counters to help model how to write a multiplication number sentence. 

The children will be continuing their Guided Reading sessions this week. The children will spend Friday morning completing a rotation of different activities in their class which range from guided reading, guided writing, independent reading & phonics activities.   

Reception Weekly Focus 05.06.18

Welcome to the last term of the academic year - time is flying by!

In Reception this week we will be starting our new topic focused on the story 'Billy's Bucket' by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons. 

In Literacy, the children will have the opportunity to hear the story and discuss it as a whole class.

In Phonics, we will be recapping all previous sounds learnt but focusing on the digraphs 'oo' (long sound) and 'ar'.  

In Maths, we will continue to count in 5's and 10's as well as introduce the concept of capacity. We will discuss what this means with the children and do some practical measuring outside as well as some written recording.

The children will be continuing their Guided Reading sessions this week. The children will spend Friday morning completing a rotation of different activities in their class which range from guided reading, guided writing, independent reading & phonics activities.