Reception News
Reception News – 18.7.25
18/07/2025 · No comments yet
We can’t believe that this is the last Reception blog post! We have had a great year and have enjoyed teaching all the children. Thank you for all your lovely messages, cards and gifts. The children have had a busy week and have enjoyed the Year 6 Leavers’ Show, playing on the bouncy castle Read More
Reception Sports Day
17/07/2025 · No comments yet
Thank you to everyone who attended Sports Day last week and for your patience while we gather the hundreds of photos we took. Here are a selection of the best ones… The Reception Team 7
Reception News – 11.7.25
11/07/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week the children have read 2 different books as part of our guided reading sessions. They have worked hard to re-read sentences to develop fluency and comprehension skills. Well done! Maths This week, the children have been doing lots of addition and subtraction work. The children are becoming more confident at answering Read More
Reception News – 4.7.25
04/07/2025 · No comments yet
Phonics This week, we are focusing on our letter formation and sounding out. The children have been learning about consonant clusters. They have done a super job at writing string, strong, street and three. The dictated sentence was I am strong. Maths This week we have been deepening the children’s understanding of number. We Read More
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
