Welcome to Reception's class page

For our final week of the half-term we have been busy bees, learning all about honey, bees and how to look after them. Our book of the week has been called 'A Bear's Guide to Beekeeping', and the children have enjoyed how silly the story has been. As well as learning about where bees live, we've also found the time to make some honey-sugar scrub ready to give out as Father's Day gifts, so look out for those once we return. There has even been a visit from a local beekeeper! Rob, an ex-parent, came and told us all about keeping bees, even bringing some honey comb, bee wax sheets and bee wax candles for us to look at and explore. He answered lots of the children's questions, and we learnt that a bee lives for only 40 days and in that time it will produce only 1/4 of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime. We discussed the importance of bees and how life on Earth wouldn't exist without them. 

This week the children learnt about question makers as we wrote our questions for Rob the beekeeper. We had great questions, such as how do you look after the hive? How many bees do you have? Where is your hive? How much honey does a bee make? How do they make honey? and even where can I buy your honey?

Enjoy the half term break. Remember, the school is closed on Monday 1st June for INSET.

Miss Conyard, Mrs Highsted, Miss Morley and Mrs Shew

Home learning 

Over half-term, I would love for the children to continue to do some regular reading to allow them to continue to build their fluency and practise their prosedy with the sounds they know. They could work on any unknown sounds using flash cards previously sent home. 

However, the most important thing they need to do over the half-term is to make memories with friends and family, and rest up ahead of our final half-term being in Reception before they move on up to Year one in 8 weeks time. 

In class we love singing along to this double rap. 

Doubles Rap

Family learning on Writing 21.4.26

Phase 3 sounds taught in Reception

Here is a video from Little Wandle sharing how we pronounce our sounds. I hope you find this useful. 

There are lots of other useful and supportive videos on their YouTube channel if you need further support. 

Letters and Sounds for Home and School - YouTube

Summer 1

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Forest School

Unfortunately, we were unable to go to the woods for forest school today. Several of the children did not have coats or forest school waterproofs in school. With the storms today, we did not want to chance those children getting very wet when the rain came down. Instead, we spoke about fire safety as we build up to having a fire at forest school. The children discussed the rules around keeping safe and then created posters to remind them and their friends about how to stay safe around a fire. 

Week 3 27.4.26

A few reminders:

We have had several jumpers and cardigans go missing in class. Please can you ensure your child’s uniform is named. Can I also request you check if the uniform you have at home is yours? Some missing jumpers have the children’s names in. 30 jumpers all look the same to a 4 or 5-year-old.

The school day is: 8.45 am – 3.15 pm

Jewellery is not allowed. 1 pair of studs only.

Bags – book bags only. Please no large bags or backpacks. There is not the room in the cloakroom. 

Please put names on EVERYTHING!

Named water bottle – no squash or juice!!!!

Curriculum Map 

• Little Wandle Parent support link Please support your child to practise and reinforce the phonemes and graphemes we are learning in school. More information and support can be found on the Little Wandle website.

• Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 1

• Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 2

• Phonics Support Jargon buster. There are lots of technically words used in teaching phonics. As the children learn more we will share more with them. This website has great simple definitions to support you, to support the children.

• Phonics Play This website will allow your child to apply their phonics knowledge and share the phonics games they play in school at home.

• Phonics: Pronounciation of Phonemes This link allows you to listen to the correctly pronounced phonemes so you can practice with your child when reading at home.

• Alphablocks Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.

• Top Marks Phonics This website has a variety of games your child may wish to play to support their phonological awareness.

• Maths Chase Maths Chase is a completely free home online learning tool where children can play times tables games, along with many other mathematics skill-based games! The site features many simple learning games which children can play at home. We hope kids will find it a fun and different way to improve their maths accuracy and speed.

• Oxford Owl Free resources available for dowload without registering

• Foundation: CBeebies Radio Listen to this week's CBeebies Radio.