Reception Focus W/C 18/01

This week in Reception, we are still focussing on The Three Little Pigs.

In Maths we are concentrating on 2D shapes. We are sorting shapes by criteria, looking for shapes in and around the school, handling data using bar charts and also looking at symmetry in simple contexts.

In Literacy, the children will be writing a caption linked to the story using their phonic knowledge. They will also be learning the sounds l, ff, ll, j, ss and placing them in words.

Nursery Focus w/c 11/1

We will be continuing with our winter/ Arctic theme this week. 


The children will be making their own penguins and will be discussing igloos and eskimos.


The children will be exploring hot and cold. We will then be tasting hot and cold foods.


In addition, we will use the story 'Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?' by Eric Carle from last week to move like different animals during our PE session on Friday.

Reception Focus W/C 11/16

In Reception this week are focusing on the story The Three Little Pigs. The children will have the opportunity to hear different versions of the story, make their own role play pig or wolf masks, make their own houses using different shapes media.

In phonics we will be learning the phonemes h, b, and f and writing our own lists linked to the story.

In maths we are starting our differentiated maths groups where we are focusing on general counting skills, estimation and ordinal numbers.

Reception Focus W/C 04/01

In Reception this week we will be easing the children back into their learning by talking about what they did during the Christmas holidays and writing their Christmas news. We will be recapping all the previous sounds learnt in phonics and will move onto learning 3 new sounds a week from next week.

Our story focus this week will be Goldilocks and the Three Bears and seeing if the children can recount this familiar story in the correct sequence.

In Numeracy, we will be focusing on our number recognition of higher numbers making sure the children are building confidence and confident with numbers 11-20.

Nursery Focus w/c 4/1

Our focus this week is winter. This is following the children's interest of Frozen.


The children will be exploring ice, snow and hot and cold. They will be discussing what clothes we wear during the winter to keep us warm?


The children will be exploring Artic animals, such as polar bears and penguins.


We will observe the process of melting through playing with ice.


In addition, we will use the story 'Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?' by Eric Carle to identify and recognise different animal sounds.

Reception Focus W/C 7/12

In Reception this week we are celebrating Christmas by taking part in lots of different activities. The main activity is performing our Christmas play to our friends and family, which we are very excited about!!!

We will be making Christmas cards, choosing from a variety of 3 designs as well as making calendars for the children to bring home.

We will also be writing our Christmas list to Father Christmas/Santa and thinking about estimation in Maths, leading into our estimating activity next week.  

Nursery Focus w/c 7/12

This week we are focusing on our Christmas concert. The children are looking forward to performing to their parents/ grandparents etc.


Last week, the children enjoyed making their Christmas letters to Father Christmas. They then walked to the local post box to post these. This week, the children have the opportunity to play in our role play post office and to act out their own first hand experiences.


In addition, the children will be making mince pies this week.