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 2

This half-term our topic is ‘The Seaside.’ We will take a look at the seaside at home and away! We will share our experiences of the seaside and things we like to do there. We will also take a dive under the ocean, learning about sea life and plants.   

Communication and language: The children will get lots of opportunities to share their experiences of the seaside.   They will use communication and language to learn new things about life under the ocean, asking questions to find out more.

The children will be introduced to new vocabulary through our weekly key words. We will also be focusing on using full sentences and conjunctions to extend our ideas.

Personal social and emotional development: We will continue our learning around the Zones of Regulation – with a particular focus on change (as we move towards a time of transition) and how this makes us feel. We will share ideas on what we can do when feeling these things.

Our focus Rainbow Value this half-term is Overcome your obstacles – we will look at what an obstacle is and how this can be physical or within ourselves.  

Physical development:  The children will be taking part in team games. The children will begin to learn some team games such as rounders.

Literacy:

Our key texts this half term are: 

Singing mermaid

Rainbow Fish

Snail and the Whale

Night Pirates

Cautious Caterpillar.

The children will continue to work on applying their phonics knowledge to simple sentences, including phase 3 sounds.

The children will get lots of opportunities for free writing. Within provision, they will be writing letters, making missing posters and writing fact files.

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

• Recapping on key concepts: including doubles, odds and even numbers and the composition of numbers to 10.
• We will be looking at position and the related vocabulary. The children will be using maps and giving directions.
• We will also be taking another look at more complex patterns. We will also look at number patterns. 
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Knowledge and Understanding of the World: We will be learning about different animal and plant life that live under the sea. We will look at how we can help care for the ocean. Children will also make comparisons between the seaside in our country and the seaside abroad.   

Expressive art and design: Our focus artist this half term is Edgar Artis. Children will create mermaid tails in the style of Edgar Artis.

Children will also do some artwork using natural materials- including sand and shells.

The children will also take part in a pirate workshop with partake theatre. Where they will use role play to go on a magical journey!

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!