Reception

Welcome to Reception

Miss Maxted and Miss Akhtar make up our Recpetion Team 

Summer Term 2025

English

Our Key text this term is Emma Jane's Aeroplane.

In English we 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. Our writing this half term is based around encouraging the children to write for purpose and develop independence in sounding out to spell words, recalling digraphs and common words, and writing in contexts meaningful to them. We will be planning and writing our own simple adventure stories. Our voice continues to be important when writing so we shall be constructing sentences orally and rehearsing them before we write and using our voices to help us sound out and spell each word.

Maths 

This half term we will continue to explore the composition of numbers to ten and finding different ways to make 10 (number bonds). Children will consider the place value of these numbers (where they fall on the number line – greater than/less than) and show ways to represent these numbers. Children will consolidate number facts within ten to ensure they 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 children will be exploring the natural world through firsthand investigations – discoveriung how processes and changes occur around us. These include – push and pulls, loud and quiet, floating, and sinking, freezing and melting, light and dark.

Autumn Term 2024

English

This half term our English sessions will be focused on speaking and listening skills and joining in with stories and rhymes. We will be initially focusing on a key high-quality text, ‘A New House for Mouse,’ as the stimulus for our learning, followed by ‘Owl Babies’ later in the half term.

At Godley we follow the Monster Phonics scheme of learning for introducing letters and sounds.

This half term we will be introducing the children to phase 2 phonics and learning some letter names and sounds.

We will be learning to recognise the letters of the alphabet by sight and sound, and we will be also learning the correct letter formations. This will enable the children to learn to read, write and spell short words containing these sounds. We will also be encouraging the children to recognise familiar words such as their own name. Children will be engaging in small group guided reading sessions to develop the children’s understanding and comprehension of different stories and books.

Maths 

This half term we will be developing our understanding of numbers and what they represent. We will be focusing on the concepts of matching and sorting, more and less and developing our understanding of the numbers 1, 2 and 3. We will be developing our understanding of patterns and making comparisons between size, mass, and capacity. We will also be thinking about which numbers are important to us and why.

Theme

We will be using our key texts as a stimulus to explore and share about our own lives and the lives of others, including places we live, foods we like to eat and our favourite animals. Our Geography sessions will focus on where we live, our school environment and the immediate surroundings of our school. Our science sessions will focus on investigating woodland creatures and their habitats, exploring the concept of nocturnal animals, and thinking about seasonal change too.

Reception