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…
‘Superheroes in the city!’
| The children will explore superpowers of various characters through stories, and poems and make links to their own super powers and of those around them.
We will be holding a ‘Superhero Training Day’ where the children will come dressed in a superhero costume and undertake a range of challenges to qualify as a superhero. |
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.
- Phonics: Continue to help your child to practise the new letter sounds that they will be learning. Help them to blend words containing digraphs and trigraphs, by spotting the sound first before blending the sounds together to read the word. Help them to practise reading tricky words: he, she, my, you, her, all, are they
- Number: Continue to practise counting objects, actions and sounds no higher than 10. Provide opportunities for your child to compare two groups of objects to find out which has more or fewer, based solely on the number of each group. Help them to order numbers to 10, so that they can identify one more and one less than a number within 10. Help them to learn all the pairs of numbers that make 2,3,4,5.
