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 your child will explore themselves and the community around them. We will discuss their likes and dislikes, and feelings for starting school. They will learn about their body and their senses and how they have changed from a baby.
We can’t wait to share our learning with you!
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: Help your child to spot letters in their environment and encourage them to say the sounds. Practise lots of oral blending using a soft toy to sound talk a word. Eg the toy sounds out cat – c….a…..t, can your child hear the word cat. Repeat with other words.
- Number: Practise counting objects, actions and sounds up to 5. Eg hops, jumps, claps or any objects from around the house. Practise recognising numerals to 5 and matching to quantities.
