Dear Families,

Reception have had another successful start to our final term of the year! The children really enjoyed our "Let's Create" topic and became fantastic builders, inventors and creators. This week we became engineers and designed and constructed our own models. We were blown away by the children's innovation! We have since seen lots of fantastic building in the construction area. We have now started our new learning theme "Minibeasts" where we will be investigating different minibeasts. We went on our own minibeast hunt around the school and were able to identify many different bugs! We have even made our own bug hotel in the reception playground where we have snails and worms. The children love finding different minibeasts every day in the garden!  We have also been reading "Superworm" and the children have begun to innovate and write their own "Super bug" story. We are seeing incredible progress with the children's independence and fluency with reading and writing. We will also be focussing on handwriting and making sure our letters are formed correctly during writing. 

In Maths, we are consolidating and developing the children's automatic recall with number facts such as number bonds, identifying one more and one less and practising addition and subtraction. We are also encouraging independence during book tasks to prepare for Year 1.

As we embrace the final term of the year, we will be focusing on getting the children Year 1 ready. We are continuing to encourage more fluency and independence with the children's reading and writing skills to prepare them so please do continue practising as much incidental writing and reading as possible including recapping tricky red words (high frequency words). 

We have a busy term ahead so please look out for important dates such as Reception Sports Day next week and the Reception Identity Project Stay and Play session on July 12th. We are so excited to share with you what the children have been practising in PE for Sports Day! Please make sure you return all Sports Day letters and speak with the team if you have any questions. 

Best wishes from the Reception Team

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

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 reading the green words. Can you write any?

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!