Reception

Welcome to Reception

Miss Maxted, Mrs Constantine and Miss Akhtar make up our Early Years team 

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