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, the children will learn about the different celebrations that might happen during the year Eg. Bonfire Night, Christmas, Weddings, Birthdays, Diwali and how we celebrate them at home and how other people might celebrate them differently. |
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 has learned all of the Phase 2 single letter sounds now and is now learning to blend words containing these sounds. You can help at home by encouraging them to point to each sound in a word, then blending the sounds together Eg c…a….t – cat. If your child gets it wrong, then simply model reading the word yourself. I have added a link to an online game that supports blending called ‘Phonics Play’
- Number: This half term, the children continue to compare two groups of objects, identifying which group has more, fewer or the same amount. You could help by providing them with two groups of objects from around the house and get them to put them into two vertical lines next to each other so that they can see which has more and which has fewer.
- We will introduce the concept that a whole is made of parts. Leading on from this the children will learn how a number can be made of parts eg 4 is made of 3 and 1. Why not support your child by giving them 4 objects and ask them to tell you what 4 is made of.
- They will continue to practise their counting skills, by counting with increasing accuracy. You should encourage your child to count objects within the house up to 10. They must count slowly, start from one and tag each item once. The last number in their count tells them how many.
