Reception

Welcome to Reception

Mrs Gates, Miss Shaw and Mrs McDonald work in Reception

Summer Term 2024

English

Our English sessions will focus on developing our own ideas, making predictions and explaining our thoughts. We will be exploring the world and how to travel around it through our key text and making links to non-fiction texts too! Later in the half term we will be focussing on instructions and their purpose. We will be seeing if we can follow instructions, create some for others to follow and writing our own instructions too. Our English sessions will provide opportunities to develop our vocabulary and use story language to retell and create our own stories too!

 

Phonics

This half term we will consolidating our learning within Phase 3 phonics. We will be applying our knowledge of digraphs and trigraphs (sounds with 2 or 3 letters) to read a range of different words, captions and sentences. We will also be expanding our blending skills to read words with 4 or more sounds, including words with two syllables that may need “chopping up”. We share a daily phonics session as a class and working in smaller, focused groups to support the children in their varying needs and stages of development within phonics.                   

 

Maths

This half term we will be exploring the composition of numbers to 10. We will be consolidating number bonds within 10, comparing numbers and using our knowledge about these numbers to solve problems. We will be considering the place value of these numbers and how we can represent them We will be exploring the composition of lots of different numbers and consolidating number facts within 10 to ensure we have a secure foundation of number knowledge.                                     

Later in the half term, we will also be developing our understanding of 2d shape and spatial reasoning skills. We will be working on puzzles and patterns such as tangrams, and using shapes to create our own pictures.                                                                  

 Theme 

This half term in Geography we will be focusing on the continent of Antarctica, finding out where it is, what the main physical features are and who lives there. We will be making some comparisons between different places around the world.                    In Science we will be beginning the half term by exploring the season of spring, making links between the different seasons we have experienced so far and considering when spring takes place. We will also be considering changes states of matter and investigating freezing and melting.                                                                                                                                                We will also be developing our use of technology this half term, beginning to use specific apps on iPads to demonstrate and record our learning. We will be linking our English work on instructions with computing too and developing our skills in programming.

In our Art sessions this half term we will be focusing constructing and attaching, using a range of different tools and resources. We will be designing, planning, constructing and evaluating. We are continuing to developing our imaginative ideas and attention to detail in Drawing Club each week too.