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…

Our New Topic – All Around the World!

We are very excited to begin our new topic, All Around the World! On our first day back at school, the children will climb aboard our aeroplane and take off on an exciting adventure across the globe.

During this topic, we will visit Africa, China, India and the South Pole, learning about different countries and cultures along the way. We will explore famous landmarks, discover new foods, listen to music from around the world and enjoy stories from different cultures. We will also be joining the Go Jetters on some of our adventures!

We can’t wait to begin our journey and discover all the wonderful things our world has to offer.

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: Reading at home is one of the most powerful ways you can support your child’s learning. Sharing stories together not only builds a love of reading but also helps develop their understanding and language skills. At this stage, it’s really important to talk about the story as you go—ask your child questions about what has happened, why characters made certain choices, and what they think might happen next. These conversations help deepen their understanding and make reading an enjoyable, interactive experience for both of you. 📚
•  Phonics: Your child has been taught all Phase 2 and 3 sounds now and we will go onto consolidate these sounds through regular revision of sound cards and through applying these sounds when reading books. They will begin to learn to read words that contain initial and end blends such as drip, pond, step, hand, lift. Practise this fun game to help them read such words. PhonicsPlay – Phase 4 Resources
• Number: This half term the children will be consolidating the learning that they have been taught this year by revisiting some of the mathematcal concepts. Please continue to support your child at home by doing activities such as:
• Counting up to 10 objects securely
• Ordering numbers to 10
• Saying which number is one more or one less to 10.
• Discussing what numbers are made of eg 6 is made of 5 and 1 or 3 and 3
• Subitsing amounts to 5.
• Exploring doubles, odds and evens
• Exploring how objects can be shared equally.
• Comparing two groups of objects, saying which is more, fewer or equal.
• Recalling number bonds to 5 and 10