Reception 2024 - 2025

Reception Summer term 2

Welcome back to our very last half term together! The year has really flown by and we hope the children have enjoyed their time in Reception as much as we have! They have been an amazing class to teach and we will definitely miss them next year! Below we have outlined some of the activities that we will be undertaking this half term:

In phonics lessons, 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 building on phase 4 words by adding digraphs and trigraphs so that we can read words such as “toast”, “train”, “star”, “clear” and “street”. We will also be reading words ending in “-ing”, “-ed”, “-er” and “-est”.

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

In English, we will continue to use the “Drawing Club” scheme by Greg Bottrill Boyce and a range of stimuli. We will begin with “The Dirty Great Dinosaur” by Martin Waddell before moving on to “Billy’s Bucket” by Kes Gray and “Barry the Fish with Fingers” by Sue Hendra. 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 20 and noticing the pattern in the tens. We will also be learning number bonds for 4, 5 and 10 including doubles. We will then be learning about capacity, sequencing events, shapes and finishing with some more work on patterns.

Our PE lessons will continue to be on Wednesdays this half term with Mrs Bradley and Mrs Gardner. Our PE sessions will focus on running skills in preparation for Sports’ Day which takes place on Friday 27^th June at 9.30am. For these lessons, the children will need to wear their PE kits 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? Please could you also check that any footwear fits properly and will not fall off with Sports’ Day in mind?

In the afternoons, we will be learning about growth and change. We will also be making sock puppets, weaving and junk modelling.

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 “Growing and Changing” and we will learn about the seasons, life cycles, growing up and life stages. We will also talk about body parts and how “Pants are Private” using the NSPCC resource “Pantosaurus”.

The children will receive three P.H.S.E. lessons this half term as part of the whole school Christopher Winter project. In Reception, the children will learn about caring friendships, being kind and families.

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 hope this is helpful and gives you an insight into our topics this half term! Thank you very much for all your support and encouragement this year. The children have all come such a long way and we will endeavour to help make their transition into Year 1 as smooth as possible.

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. Our door is always open!

Key Dates:

Monday 2^nd June – Back to school

Tuesday 10^th/Wednesday 11^th June -– FOHS Marvellous Men Gift wrapping

Tuesday 10^th June – FOHS Disco

Friday 20^th June – FOHS non-uniform in exchange for bottle tombola items

Tuesday 24^th June – Move up Morning (spending the morning in Year 1)

Friday 27^th June – Sports Day (Reception/KS1 starting at 9.30am)

Saturday 28^th June – FOHS Summer Fayre

Thursday 3^rd July– PHSE day “Growing and Changing.” – Non-uniform day

Friday 11^th July – Reports out to parents

Monday 14^th to Wednesday 16^th July – FOHS Big Bounce

Friday 18^th July– Last day in Reception