Welcome to Reception’s class page
This page will provide you with useful information about our current topic, hints for helping your child at home and important dates that are coming up.
Our current topic is…
In this topic, we will discuss their likes and dislikes and feelings for starting school. We will learn about their body and their senses and how they have changed from a baby. We will also talk about who is in their family and go on a walk in their local community.
To view our curriculum overview for this next topic or to see some important dates that are coming up, check out our useful links section on this page.
How you can help your child at home
- Reading: I cannot express the importance of reading a story to your child enough. As according to the Department for Education Reading Framework document : ‘Parents who engage their children in books prepare them to become committed and enthusiastic readers: they can transform their attitudes to reading. Their children learn to focus and share the enjoyment of the story; they learn how stories start and finish, and how a plot unravels and is resolved; they learn that books can transport them elsewhere. Without this, as Wolf said, they cannot experience ‘the exquisite joys of immersion in the reading life.’ Therefore read to your child as often as you can and you will start to see their language develop rapidly as well as their love for stories. You could begin to ask your child some simple questions about the pictures including the characters, settings and events.
- Phonics: A crucial stage in learning to read is being able to orally blend. Eg if you sound out a word such as c….a……t, they need to be able to hear the word cat. You could pretend to be a robot and speak like a robot, sounding out simple words for them to hear, eg d..o…g, t…a….p. They will start to also learn one new letter sound per day, so practise these on their weekly homework sheet.
- Number: This half term, the children will learn to count with accuracy to 5, by touching each object and saying the number names in order. Help your child by getting them to count groups of objects around the house. They will also learn to match amounts to to the correct numeral, so why not write some numbers to 5 on post it notes to match to a group of objects or ask them to place the numbers in order. They will also learn to compare two groups of objects, saying which is more or fewer. Why not practise this at home too!
