Reception Weekly Review
Friday 13th of September 2024
Learning Through Play
Learning Through Play has been a huge success and the children in both classes have loved choosing, selecting and using their choice of activity and resources in their child-led learning. Favourites and preferences are beginning to develop as well as friendships through the pursuit of shared interests. We have loved seeing both the range of activities that the children have chosen alongside the creativity and imagination they have brought to their endeavours.
Both classes got off to a fantastic start with their Phonics session this week. We learnt our first 4 GPCs (Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences), s as in snake, a as in astronaut, t as in tiger and p as in penguin. We looked at words that have these phonemes as their initial sounds, practiced forming each grapheme and played lots and lots or oral blending games – e.g. sounding our c/a/t/ and then arriving at the word cat. Well done to all of the children for such a positive beginning to their reading journeys.
English 
We started reading the ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury this week. We watched the author tell his story and then looked at who the characters in the story are and the different settings in the book. The children really enjoyed joining in with this familiar story and its repetitive nature. For our focused task, Miss Roborgh and Mrs Cunningham worked with each child on a 1:1 basis to write their name using their new name cards as a model.
Maths 
In Maths we started our work on Mastering Number. This week we spent the lessons looking at subitising and matching dot patterns to quantities by using our fingers. Our focused task involved the children counting small quantities of counters and linking this to a dot pattern through an exciting ‘splat’ game! We also taught the children about simple repeating shape patterns.
Understanding the World 
This week we used our topic sessions to talk about ourselves and important people in our lives. We talked about our families and friends during circle time and collectively established a set of rules to make this our circle time sessions fair and respectful throughout the year. We also made our Class Charter by agreeing on the rules of the Reception Learning Environment. Each child decorated a cut-out of their hand to signify their agreement and buy-in.
Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you
We hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Roborgh, Mrs Cunningham, Tara and Angie
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Fund
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Things we need
Fund
In Reception, we often buy items to supplement the children's learning. From ingredients for playdough to art supplies, small items for you termly themes to large exciting things like the ducklings. To help pay for all this, we are for a £1 a week voluntary contribution. If you would like to help, just give anything you can to us in the mornings. Thank you.
Art
Do you have any of the following?
- Plastic bottle tops
- Boxes – large and small
- toilet rolls
- egg cartons
- cardboard boxes
- plastic bottles
- yoghurt pots
- bubble wrap
- newspapers and magazines
- shells
- CD
- recyclable straws
- Buttons
If you have any of these, we would love to have them. Thanks