Dear Families,

We have had another brilliant start to a brighter new term in Reception! The children have dived straight into our new topic "Contrasting Countries" where we will be exploring the country Burkina Faso and activist Georgie Badiel inspired by our key text "The Water Princess". This week, we learned about African animals, Georgie's village and spoke about the similarities and differences. We have heard some amazing vocabulary while playing in our new "Woodberry Down Safari", "Jungle" and "Weather Station" role play areas! Reception will soon be hosting their own charity event to raise money for WaterAid. Keep posted for special invitations! In maths, the children have been counting, ordering and representing numbers to 15 using a range of manipulatives. We are so impressed with how independent and resilient the children have become with their learning. Please continue to share stories regularly and practise reading their phonics book each week! 

We really enjoyed visiting the Museum Of Home before half term. Thank you to all our parent volunteers for your support. We look forward to the dryer and warmer days ahead and our next "Spring Nature Hunt" outing towards the end of term! 

A friendly reminder that no parents should be entering the school building during morning drop off. If there are any problems, please let your class team know.

Best wishes,

The Reception Team

Click on the picture below to listen to the story with your child, then ask them the suggested questions.

We have learnt the words below this week. Can you ask your child the suggested questions to encourage them to use the words in a sentence?

Practise the sounds we have learnt this week with your child by clicking on the pictures below. The more opportunities they have to see, hear and say the sounds, the more likely they are to stick. The videos will teach you too! Then practise learning to blend with Fred talk.

Try out one or both of these activities with your child this weekend. Please send us any photos you take or bring your child's learning into school - we'd love to see them!