Chaffinches Reception 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Reception's Class Page 2024-2025!

Autumn 2

Welcome to Reception!

We hope you had a lovely half term break and are now ready to start the second part of our Autumn term.

Our topic this term is called Let's Celebrate! We will look at the celebrations Diwali, Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and Christmas. 

Our book focus will be Stickman by Julia Donaldson.

The children will introduced to The Drawing Club which is a teaching approach we use to incorporate maths and phonics into drawing. The children will also have a focus on learning to work in pairs and sharing ideas with their partner. 

During rhyme time this term are focus rhymes are:

Jingle Bells

Christmas Pudding

The 12 days of Christmas

Down in the Jungle

Here we go round the Mulberry bush

Phonics 

Phonics is the system we use to teach children to read and we do this using ELS (Essential Letters and Sounds). It teaches children the link between letters and the sounds they represent. Your child will be taught the most straightforward letters, and the sounds they make. For example, they will be taught that the letter ‘m’ represents an mmm sound and the letters ‘oa’ represent an oh sound. They will learn how sounds can be put together (blend) to make words. For example, they will learn that the sounds of the letters ‘m-a-t’ blend together to make the word ‘mat’. Your child will then learn more sounds and will start blending them too.

Please try and read with your child at home as much as possible as this really benefits with consolidating new taught sounds. Also reading to your child and talking about the pictures will really start to help your child develop a love for books! Reading books will be sent home once we have started our phonics scheme and will be linked to the learning that they have done during the week. They will then be changed every Friday.

Find the powerpoint from our reading and phonics meeting below.

Maths

Maths is so much fun! The way in which Maths is taught is through taking one number at a time! We look at each number in it's individual form and in all the ways it is represented. For example when we look at number 1 we look at how it is written as a word, a digit, we will explore pennies and circles, tally marks, dice and much much more! In reception is is important to make deep foundations with the numbers 0-10, so then our children are completely confident with the number bonds and ways in which these numbers can be played around using additon and subtraction. The children use lots of practical resources in our Maths lessons in order for them to consolidate their learning and delve deeper. We love to sing in our Maths lessons as the children really engage with this; especially 'Jack Hardman Subitising'! 

Stay and play

Stay and Play is every Friday from 8.40 - 9.10 - Come and join us and share your child's learning and play with them.

Don't forget to keep up to date with what is going on via our class dojo story!

Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have or email. Mrs Larbey will teach the children Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and Mrs Cobb Thursday and Friday. Mrs Jennings is with our children everyday. 

We hope you are as excited to start the new term as we are!

Mrs Larbey

P.E Lead & Reception Teacher

larbey@cuddington.cheshire.sch.uk

Mrs Cobb

RE & Music Lead

Reception Teacher

cobb@cuddington.cheshire.sch.uk