Reception

Summer Term 2025

Welcome to Reception!

We have loved welcoming the children into school after the Easter break and have been so impressed with their learning skills already. We have been busy catching up with our friends, learning to 'choose it, use it, put it away' and getting back into the routine of being in Reception. We are excited to see what amazing learning takes place this term.

This half term we are thinking about 'Traditional tales' and after half term we will be learning about 'Journeys and transition'. We will be using focus texts to support our learning. We will be exploring traditional tales, retelling them, predicting what might happen next and using our drama skills to pretend to be different characters. After half term we will be learning about how we can travel to different places around the world and we will be talking about journeys we have been on ourselves. We will be doing some gardening and taking care of our vegetable patches. We will also start thinking about next academic year and visit the year 1 classrooms too.

We would like to thank you all for your support in helping prepare the children for the new term- we are very proud of them!

This page has links to the Reception news, curriculum overview, 'Home Learning' and individual class pages.

Scroll down to the 'Home Learning' section to find activities to practice your reading, phonics and maths skills at home.

Please continue to look at the school website and read the information in the newsletters to remain up to date with upcoming school events and weekly news.

Meet the team!

Class RY

Mrs Connolly

Class RP

Miss Pearson

Class RC

Mrs Cranston

Class RK

Miss Keith

Our topic this half term is...

Traditional tales

Journeys and transition

As well as learning through play and following the children's interests this term we will be using books to explore the topic 'Traditional tales' and in Summer 2 'Journeys and transition'.

Here’s to a great Summer term in Reception!

Home Learning

Click see below for the latest home learning activities!

Please click on the image above to take you to the BBC website where you will find links to activities that link and support the EYFS curriculum.

Please click on the image above to take you to a website that has top tips for supporting your child with their reading.

Please click on the image above for top tips when cooking with your child as well as recipes for young children.

We are learning about the weather and how it changes through the seasons. Click on the image above to take you to the BBC website where there is a programmer you can listen to with your child and learn more about the weather

Please click on the image above to take you to a website that has top tips for supporting your child with their reading.

Please click on the image above for a list of the top 100 books for EYFS children

We love reading!

Make sure you read your book as often as possible, as well as enjoying your book from the 'Borrow a book' scheme, Oxford Reading Buddy and books you have at home or from the library. Clink the link below to see some suggested book lists for EYFS children.

Our EOV words this week are:

summer

fun

relax

Please find below our reading words for this half term. These will be updated every two weeks as the words change.

Reading words: Week beginning 3rd June 2025

Reading words: Week beginning 9th June 2025

02/06/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

away, play, there

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

09/06/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

these, what, their

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

Reading words: Week beginning 16th June 2025

Reading words: Week beginning 23rd June 2025

16/06/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

these, what, their

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

23/06/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

day, up, who

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

Reading words: Week beginning 30th June 2025

Reading words: Week beginning 7th July 2025

30/06/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

day, up, who

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too

07/07/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

see, where, big

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

Reading words: Week beginning 14th July 2025

14/07/25 This week we are learning to read the following words:

see, where, big

Please help me to learn to read these words. You could stick them on paper and hide them around the house or make a matching game.

The sounds we are practising are:

a, i, m, s, t, p, o, n, b, c, g, h, k, l, r, u, d, f, v, e, j, w, z, x, y, ck, ss, ff, ll, zz, sh, ch, th, wh, ng, qu, tch, ing, ed

Please help me to practise these too.

Please find below information about our current maths learning and ways to support your child at home.

In maths pupils will:

Pupils will build on previous experiences of number from their home and nursery environments, and further develop their subitising and counting skills. They will explore the composition of numbers within 5. They will begin to compare sets of objects and use the language of comparison.
Pupils will:

• identify when a set can be subitised and when counting is needed

• subitise different arrangements, both unstructured and structured, including using the Hungarian number frame

• make different arrangements of numbers within 5 and talk about what they can see, to develop their conceptual subitising skills

• spot smaller numbers ‘hiding’ inside larger numbers • connect quantities and numbers to finger patterns and explore different ways of representing numbers on their fingers

• hear and join in with the counting sequence, and connect this to the ‘staircase’ pattern of the counting numbers, seeing that each number is made of one more than the previous number

• develop counting skills and knowledge, including: that the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ (cardinality); to be accurate in counting, each thing must be counted once and once only and in any order; the need for 1:1 correspondence; understanding that anything can be counted, including actions and sounds

• compare sets of objects by matching

• begin to develop the language of ‘whole’ when talking about objects which have parts

Please find below links to some useful websites to support your child with their maths learning at home:

https://www.busythings.co.uk/families/subjects/maths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zs3j2v4

Please find more information about 'Teaching for Mastery' and the importance of this approach:

Reception Summer Curriculum

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