Welcome to Reception's webpage! 

Here you will find lots of useful information about our termly topics as well as photos and updates on our learning. 

Summer 1

This half-term our topic is ‘Animals.’ The children love this topic as it lets them share some of their existing knowledge! We never fail to be surprised by what the children know. We will take a look at some of the most unusual inhabitants of Earth, being introduced to animals we may not have seen before. We will enjoy some quality texts that feature animals from home and away.  

Communication and language: This half-term we will be doing lots of story retelling and role-play. Children will be using their communication skills to show their knowledge and understanding and to learn new things! We will be doing lots of explaining and question asking.  

Personal social and emotional development: We will continue our learning around the Zones of Regulation – identifying emotions and looking at what we can do when we are in the different zones.  We will also be looking at what a trusted adult is.

Our focus Rainbow Value this half-term is Believe in Yourself- we will be thinking about what we are good at! We will identify our own strengths and those of others.

Physical development:  The children will be taking part in athletics. Children will be working on their running, jumping and throwing. They will be busy getting ready for sports day at the end of the half-term.

Literacy:

Our key texts this half term are: 
- Hello Hello

- Oi stories

- Hairy Maclary

- Monkey Puzzle

Maths: In Maths this half-term we will be learning about

• The numbers to 20- children will learn to recognise the numbers to 20 and explore how we build the teen numbers.
• Addition and subtraction we will explore adding two sets together and taking an amount away.
• We will continue to work on the composition and decomposition of the numbers to 10.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World: We will be exploring life cycles. We will learn about what a life cycle is. We will learn about the frog, butterfly and human life cycle. We will welcome our class caterpillars and watch them turn into butterflies. We will also look at categorizing animals.

Expressive art and design: Children will be creating artwork using different animal patterns. We will be revisiting colour mixing. The children will also be using textiles to make their own animal puppets.

We are always here for a chat; either in school or using our message system, Weduc. Please feel free to send photos showing your adventures at home, we love to see them!