Reception Class

Welcome to Reception Class

Teacher - Mr Proctor (Miss Lea Tuesdays)

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Gadsby

Welcome to our Reception Class Page.

We are so excited to welcome you to our school, and this is the place where key information, messages, updates and files to download can be found.

Should any queries or questions you have not be answered on here, we can always be contacted at recteach@weaverhamforest.cheshire.sch.uk

Yearly Overview

In Reception, we prioritise language development, early reading and strong foundations in number. Our curriculim is designed to ensure all children, particularly those with lower starting points, develop the knowledge and vocabulary for KS1. As well as whole class and group learning, learning takes place whilst the children are playing, with high quality interactions to extend children's thinking and learning. Our continuous provision is carefully planned to revisit and embed any taught knowledge. We also like to be guided by the children's interests, so planning is sometimes fluid and not set in stone. However, please find below an overview of the topics we will be learning about this academic year. Assessment is used to identify any gaps and inform teaching and along with staff observations, we adjust provision to ensure all children make progress. Children leave reception as confident communicators, fluent readers and secure in number to 10. They are well prepared for the KS1 curriculum.

reception year plan 25 26.pdf

Phonics & Reading

We follow the Phonics programme Sounds~Write, with Phonics sessions taking place daily. We then follow Phonics with Reading. The children will read a decodable book matched to the daily Phonics teaching, in a small group, with an adult. During this session, they focus on decoding, intonation and comprehension. This book, along with a Reading for Pleasure book, will be sent home every Friday. At the start of the year the reading texts may appear somewhat challenging and 'tricky,' however, it is not expected for your child to be able to read from "cover to cover" in one go. The importance is that they become more familiar with sounds to the point where they may share, "that words starts with a _ sound" even when reading is not on their mind!

What is perhaps the most challenging yet important part of Phonics and Reading is that the children's role models (adults who read with and to them) model the correct pronunciation of sounds wherever possible. Sometimes (speaking from experience here!) it can be a lot different from when we were taught at school. A video guide of how to pronounce the main sounds can be found towards the bottom of the page, but by all means get in touch if you have a query on anything to do with letter sounds and how to make them.

Literacy

Each half term we have a focus story book. We explore this book in lots of detail and the children will become very familiar with it. Throughout the half term, we have lots of activities and learning linked to the book.

Kinetic Letters writing (letter formation)

In the Spring term we focus on the accurate formation of letters / sounds through our study of the Kinetic Letters program.

Please see below the letter families we have recently studied for an overview of how the sounds should be formed accurately (these are also available to view on Seesaw, alongside handy formation videos).

kinetic summary.pdf

abracadabra letter family.pdf

window cleaner letter family.pdf

Maths

This academic year school will follow the Power Maths program of study for maths learning (see overview below).

We will begin by exploring numbers to 5 in detail, moving all the way to beyond 10 by the summer term. We will also explore: shape, space and measure. Please find a short video explaining the importance of Early Number Sense below.

reception power maths overview.pdf

Other Information

Our PE session takes place on a Thursday so children will need to arrive in school in PE kits on that day.

Reading books will be sent out (and subsequently swapped) on Fridays.

Please find below videos on the pronunciation of the sounds the children will be learning and the importance of Early Number Sense.

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Spring Term 2nd Half Newsletter

class newsletter spring 2.pdf

Please see the file gallery below for helpful documents, plans and overviews that can be viewed or downloaded to give you a summary of life in Reception.