Reception News
Reception News – 27.6.25
27/06/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week we have enjoyed shared reading with a partner. The children are doing a super job of listening to each other and re-reading their sentences. Please keep reading at home. Maths This week we have focused on deepening the children’s developing automaticity with number facts including knowing that whole amounts can be Read More
Reception News – 20.6.25
20/06/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week the children have looked at the ending ed as in helped. They have tried hard to write the words ripped, drop, cloak and sleep. The dictated sentence was ‘I ripped my cloak’. They have also been composing and writing sentences in their Busy Bee books. They are working super hard to Read More
Reception News – 13.6.25
13/06/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week, the children have worked hard during ‘paired reading’ with a partner. They have practised reading two different books and are trying hard to re-read sentences for fluency. Please keep reading at home too. The children have also practised using their robot arms to sound out and spell words. They are trying Read More
Reception News – 6.6.25
06/06/2025 · No comments yet
Wow – we can’t believe we are in the last half term of Reception! Phonics We have continued to revise the phase 2 and phase 3 phonemes ready for Year 1. Please keep practising them at home. Maths We began the week by investigating capacity. The children used the language ‘full’, ’empty’, ‘half full’ Read More
Reception News – 23.5.25
23/05/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics The children have enjoyed ‘paired reading’ this week. They shared a book with a friend and did some super re-reading after decoding each sentence. We have been updating our phonics assessments. The children have impressed us with their phonic knowledge. Please keep practising the flashcards and playing on Fast Phonics. Phonics Play is another Read More
Reception News – 16.5.25
16/05/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week we have had a go at writing the words buses, bug, lunch and charm. We also practised saying and writing the sentence Look at the little bug. The tricky word was do. Reading at home Please keep hearing your child read and write a comment in their reading record. By the Read More
Reception News – 9.5.25
09/05/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week we have had a go at writing the words beard, food, duck and vest. We also practised saying and writing the sentence I fed some ducks. The tricky word is there. Maths We have been consolidating the children’s understanding of the composition of 5. We then moved onto the composition of Read More
Reception News – 2.5.25
02/05/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week we have continued to revise our phase 3 phonemes. We have had a go at writing the words sweets, hot, snail and twins. We also practised saying and writing the sentence We were hot. The children are trying hard to remember to leave finger spaces between words. Maths The children have Read More
Reception News – 25.4.25
25/04/2025 · No comments yet
Wow – we can’t believe we are in the last term of Reception! We have lots of fun activities planned, including our trip to Harlow Carr in May and Stockeld Park in June. Phonics This week we have revised phase 3 phonemes. We have also written the words bus, fan and left by matching Read More
Reception News – 4.4.25
04/04/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week we have revised the phonemes ai, ee, igh and oa. The tricky word is have. Please keep reading at home over the next few weeks! Maths This week, the children have used practical contexts to sort objects according to different criteria. They were encouraged to notice different attributes in groups of Read More
