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…
We will take your child on a journey to some amazing animal habitats such as the Amazon Rainforest, the African savannas and the Great Barrier Reef.
Through non fiction texts they will learn some interesting facts about a wide range of animals from habitats across the globe and we aim to foster their inquisitive minds by engaging in lots of discussions that invite them to talk about what they have learned and to ask questions to find out more. The pinnacle of our topic will be a visit to Packington Farm, where they will learn all about farming and also about animals and their babies.
We will go exploring for mini beasts in our woodland and learn all about the butterfly life cycle. They will go on a pretend safari to learn about some African animals and we will explore the Great Barrier Reef on Google Earth.
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 read words that contain digraphs and trigraphs by spotting the sounds before decoding the words and blending to read them. Encourage your child to read their e-book that we upload on Bug Club. They should be able to read it fluently and independently.
- Number: Practise counting past 20 now, reciting number names in order. Help your child to develop and consolidate their knowledge of numbers to 10, including what numbers are made of. Practise recalling number bonds to 5 and 10 and some doubles.
