Reception – Mrs Turner

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…

This half term our class will be diving into an exciting Superheroes topic! We will be exploring both fictional and real-life superheroes, discovering the special qualities that make them brave, kind and helpful. The children will take part in fun, hands-on experiments and enjoy a thrilling superhero training day, where they will complete missions and challenges to become fully qualified superheroes. It’s going to be an action-packed topic full of learning, teamwork and imagination!

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: Your child will now start to learn Phase 3 sounds including some digraphs ( two letters that make 1 sound) and trigraphs ( 3 letters that make 1 sound) They will be bringing these sounds home as homework,  so please help them to learn them. They will consolidate their knowledge of Phase 2 sounds by reading and re-eading books contaiing the sounds they know. They will begin to read simple sentences containing these sounds. Encourage them to read aloud their phonics book at home.
• Number:This half term the children will learn to subitise increasingly more complex arrangements. They will practise matching amounts of 5 to the corresponding numeral and place them in order. We will explore composition further by exploring the different ways to make 5 and learn how to show numbers such as 6 and 7. We will continue to compare amounts but this time focus exclusively on the numerosity of sets. You could help them at home by continuing to count objects ( no more than 10) by touching each object once. Subitising amounts eg hold up up to 5 fingers, and see if they can say how many. Encourage them to talk about what numbers are made of eg that 7 is made of 5 and 2. Give them amounts to count and then match to numerals to 10.