Welcome to Reception

Miss Carroll and Mrs Mutarah are the Reception teachers and are assisted by Mrs Miss Hulstone who is our fantastic Early Years Practitioner and Miss Thorpe and Miss Aktar who are our amazing Learning Support practitioners.

We would like to welcome you back after the half term break and hope you enjoyed your time off together. 

In Reception, we learn alongside the Development Matters National Curriculum for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Throughout all of our work, the staff in Reception will be assessing the children against the objectives outlined within this document and also use it to ensure that all individual needs are being met. 

In Reception, children will have daily Phonics (taught through Supersonic Phonic Friends), Maths and Literacy session (taught through The Write Stuff) in the morning and Topic sessions during the afternoon. Children are introduced to their new learning challenges in small groups. This is then further developed through child-initiated learning that takes place throughout the day. Learning is promoted in both the indoor and outdoor environment.

During the Summer term the children will be learning the new topic ‘I wonder about our amazing world’. The children will be learning about different countries in Africa. The children will learn about the different towns and cities, cultures and traditions of African countries. The children will then compare these to their own beliefs and ways of living in Stoke-on-Trent. The children will explore globes and maps and read stories linked to the different countries.

During our Phonics sessions children will continue to work through Basic 3 lessons. These will involve learning new diagraphs/triagraphs. The children will be working on recognising these new phonemes and will also practise blending them to read words. The children will also apply their phonic knowledge to write words and simple captions. The children will also be taught tricky words, which are words the children can not segment and blend, but they just have to know.

In Maths children will be learning all about sharing and grouping amounts. The children will be encouraged to identify equal and non-equal group and share amounts practically using mathematical resources. The children will also learn about odd and even numbers and doubling facts.

During RE the children will be looking at different stories and finding out why they are special.

This half term the children will be taking part in Muddy Mondays. This is where we spend a whole afternoon learning and exploring in the outdoors.

Please ensure the children bring to school appropriate clothing such as a puddle suit (see our uniform requirements for more information) jogging bottoms and wellies/walking boots. If you need further information regarding clothing please contact a member of the Reception team. 

Thank you,

Reception team