Reception Penguins 2024 - 2025
Miss Shipp, Mrs Birnie, Miss Magdij and Miss Ohandjanian would like to welcome you to the Reception webpage.
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December 2024
We have been incredibly proud of how resilient Reception have been in the last few weeks of Autumn term. It's been a busy time and they've coped really well with all the changes to routine and a lot of them fighting illness too. They also put on a fantastic Christmas play too - they should be so proud of themselves. It was lovely to see them re-enacting the Nativity with the puppet theatre with their friends and at the tuff tray.
Most children have now learnt most of the set 1 sounds and we are starting to see lots of oral blending and recognition of the initial sound in simple CVC words. The children have been writing lots more in our provision and many are now choosing to write more which is fantastic.
We've had a few special visitors this month too - Warwick Bear and Santa! The children learnt about how to stay safe near roads and when crossing a road using the THINK approach. The children have worked really hard this term and deserve a well-earned rest now for two weeks.
November 2024
In November, our topic in Early Years was Transport and our key text has been 'Naughty Bus.' Reception have been working really hard to try and remember their initial set 1 sounds and we are now encouraging them all the time to blend and make simple CVC words. They are practising oral blending and their letter formation daily with Fred frog.
The children have enjoyed learning all about the different types of vehicles there are and discussing which ones they have been in before. Reception also liked drawing their own maps and, collectively, we made a class map with key showing the route the Naughty Bus went on. The children have loved making lots of train tracks and road bridges out of construction parts and re-enacting the story of the Naughty Bus.
Alongside our transport topic, we have also taken part in activities linked to Children in Need, Diwali, Bonfire night, Remembrance day and Anti- bullying day. We have continued with our Maths Mastery lessons and have been looking at numbers within six and how to represent them. We have also been very busy practicing our Christmas songs ready for the Nativity.
October 2024
Reception have started Maths Mastery sessions and been using some of the early mathematical concepts of classifying and sorting size patterns. They’ve been sorting muddles in the provision into colour groups and object groups and have been mastering this skill whilst learning the early routines of tidy up time and putting things back in the right place. Reception have also been busy recognising, describing and copying colour and size patterns. They’ve also been asked to extend colour and size patterns and spot errors in some too. They have been counting one, two and three objects reliably and recognising the numerals one, two and three too.
Fred Frog has also been visiting the children for daily phonics sessions where the children have been revisiting and learning the set 1 sounds and practising them on a whiteboard. They have been sent phonic sound worksheets home to be practised but these do not need to be returned to school.
The children have also been introduced to the concept of rolling snack and also house points which they're coping really well with. We've also been learning all about Autumn and the children have listened to the story 'Leaf Man' and the adventures he went on. They did some fantastic drawings of Leaf Man too. It's also Black History Month so we have been talking about how people should be treated fairly in society too, no matter what colour of skin they are.
We are all very proud of you Reception - it's been a busy month!
September 2024
