Reception 2025

Welcome to Reception

Miss Maxted and Miss Atkinson make up our Reception Team 

Autumn Term 2025

English

This half term, our English sessions will focus on developing children’s oracy skills—encouraging them to talk about story events, characters, and join in with stories and rhymes. We’ll begin with the key text A New House for Mouse, using it as a springboard for discussion and imaginative thinking. Later in the term, we’ll explore Owl Babies, continuing to build vocabulary and comprehension through storytelling.

At Godley, we follow the Monster Phonics programme to support children in learning to read and write. This half term, we’ll be introducing Phase 2 phonics, known as the Black Cat sounds. Children will learn the letter names and the sounds they represent, practise identifying sounds in words, and begin blending and segmenting to read and spell simple words.

To support this, children will take part in small group reading sessions, where they’ll develop word reading skills and engage in ‘book talk’—sharing ideas and thoughts about what they read.

Maths

In Maths, we’ll be building a strong foundation in numbers to 5, exploring different ways these numbers can be represented. Our focus will include:

  • Matching and sorting
  • Comparing quantities (more than, less than)
  • Subitising – recognising quantities without counting

We’ll also explore patterns, and make comparisons in size, mass, and capacity. Children will be encouraged to think about which numbers are important to them and why, helping to make learning meaningful and personal.

Theme

In Geography, we’ll be learning about where we live, including our school environment and its immediate surroundings. Children will explore maps, landmarks, and features of the local area.

In Science, our focus will be on animals big and small—both within our school grounds and beyond. Children will observe, compare, and sort animals into groups based on similarities and differences, developing early classification skills and curiosity about the natural world.

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