Reception 2024 - 2025

Reception Spring term 2

We hope that you have had a lovely week and are ready for another busy half term. We can’t believe that we are now half way through our Reception journey together! How time flies!

In phonics lessons this half term, we will be consolidating “digraphs” - 2 letters one sound” - such as “ar” and “or” and “trigraphs” – 3 letters one sound – such as “igh”, “air” and “ear”. We will be revisiting:

qu, ch, sh, th, ng, nk, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ear

… and using them to read longer words such as “march” and “short”.

(Please check reading diaries for any sounds that may need practising!)

Our new book from our literacy scheme will be “The Journey Home” by Emma Levey. This half term, we will be continuing to develop how we write lower case letters correctly and introducing capital letters. We will be using our phonics to help us write simple sentences and reading back our work to check that it makes sense.

In Maths lessons, we will be revisiting number bonds for the numbers 1-5 and moving onto the numbers up to 10.  We will be exploring mass and using the vocabulary forwards, backwards, up, down and across using maps.  We will also be reinforcing 1 more and 1 less.

We will continue to have PE on Tuesdays this half term with Mr Gibbons, Mrs Hughes and Mrs Gardner. Our PE sessions will focus on ball skills and small sided games. For these lessons, the children will need to wear their PE kits (red hoodie/jumper, red T-shirt, black leggings or tracksuit bottoms) and trainers. Please could you ensure that all uniform is labelled and checked regularly and be aware that for health and safety reasons, earrings must be removed or covered during PE lessons?  

In the afternoons, we will be learning about journeys, maps and places we have visited. We will be making junk models to tie in with our class book and looking at how we look after our family, friends and the world around us.

We will also be learning about celebrations such as Ramadan, Holi and Easter as well as Spring and how plants grow.

R.E. will be taught by Mrs Walker on Thursday afternoons during Mrs Bradley’s PPA time and this half term will focus on our ideas about Jesus and the Easter story.

Thank you for your support with reading at home. It is lovely to see the progress that the children are all making! Please could you continue to read with your child each day whether it be them reading to you with their phonics book or you reading a story to them?  Please could we ask that you sign their reading diaries once you have done so and check that reading diaries are in bookbags every day as well as reading for pleasure books? We will be swapping and sharing reading for pleasure books with Year 6 reading buddies on Mondays.

We look forward to another wonderful half-term working with you!

Kind regards,

Mrs Hughes (Mondays and Tuesdays), Mrs Bradley (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays) and our wonderful teaching assistant Mrs Gardner.

If you have any questions, no matter what they are, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do my best to help in any way we can.

Key Dates:

Monday 24^th February – INSET day

Tuesday 25^th February – Back to school!

Thursday 4^th March – World Book Day

Monday 24^th March to Wednesday 26^th March – FOHS Wonderful Women Gift Room

Friday 28^th March – FOHS Non-uniform day in exchange for chocolate donations

Monday 31^st March and Wednesday 2^nd April – Parents’ evenings

Tuesday 1^st April – FOHS Easter Bingo

Friday 4^th April: Last day of half term

Tuesday 22^nd April: Start of Summer 1 half term