Reception 2024 - 2025

Reception Summer term 1

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Easter break together and are looking forward to another action packed half-term in Reception! Below we have outlined some of the activities that we will be undertaking this half term which will have an animal theme.

In phonics lessons this half term, we will be consolidating all of our sounds so far:

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

… and beginning phase 4 with cvcc (consonant vowel consonant consonant) words such as “tent”. We will build on this to read words such as “drink”, “twist” and “string”.

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

In English, we will be using a new writing scheme called “Drawing Club” by Greg Bottrill Boyce and a range of animal themed stimuli. We will begin with “The Tiger who Came To Tea” by Judith Kerr and “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell. This half term, we will be continuing to develop how we write lower case as well as capital letters correctly. We will be using our phonics to help us write simple sentences containing a capital letter and a full stop and reading back our work to check that it makes sense.

In Maths lessons, we will be counting beyond 10, recalling some number bonds for 10, looking at odd and even numbers, investigating symmetry and beginning to understand doubling and sharing.

Our PE lessons will be on Wednesdays this half term with Mrs Bradley and Mrs Gardner. Our PE sessions will have a games focus. For these lessons, the children will need to wear their PE kits (red hoodie/jumper, red T-shirt, black leggings, tracksuit bottoms or shorts) 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 where different animals live and how they change as they grow. We will also be making animal sock puppets and learning to weave. With this in mind, please could you send in an old labelled sock with your child which they will decorate?

R.E. will be taught by Mrs Walker on Thursday afternoons during Mrs Bradley’s PPA time and this half term will focus on the church. In  P.H.S.E, our theme will be “Being Our Best” and we will learn about our healthy eating, healthy minds, how exercise boosts our wellbeing and the importance of bedtime routines.

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:

Tuesday 22nd April – Back to school

Sunday 27th April– Community Day (1pm -5pm)

Friday 16th May – PHSE day “Being My Best” – Non-uniform day

Thursday 22nd May – Last day of half term / FOHS Non-uniform day

Friday 23rd May: INSET day

Monday 2nd June: First day back!