2. THANK YOU!
• Children have settled into Reception really well.
• Morning routines – Book bags
• Dinners
• Home time routines
• Thank you for your continued support in supporting
the children’s independence.
3. General Information
•Drinks – bottle filled with water
•Naming jumpers and cardigans
•PE kits (naming) & Independent Dressing
•Wellingtons and Raincoats
•No toys or sweets in school
•No earrings or transfer tattoos
•Snack time
•Permission forms for inhalers/allergies.
•48hrs for sickness and diarrhoea.
6. Timetable
oFlexible Timetable – set times for Phonics, Guided
Reading, Handwriting, Maths.
oChildren have access to outdoors
oPE times – Thursday morning with Mr. Parsons, Friday
afternoon with class teachers.
oSeparate lessons - RE with Mr Pye and Circle Time with
Mrs Whittington
oIndependent Snack – open all day
oLunch time – 11:30 – 12:30
oAssembly
8. Phonics
•Your child will follow a programme of phonics teaching
based on the Primary National Strategy document
‘Letters and Sounds’, in order to develop and practise
their reading skills.
•Daily 20 minute session and opportunities for children
to apply their phonics skills around the classroom.
•Phase 2 (Reception): In this phase the children learn a
new sound each day, accompanied by an action to help
them remember it. For example, ‘sssss’ for the letter S.
•Once secure with their sounds, the children begin to
segment and blend the sounds to form new words. For
example, s a t = sat.
•Alongside this, the children will learn ‘tricky words’
which are sounds that the children cannot sound out
phonetically. For example, the word ‘the’. The children
have to memorise this visually.
9. Phase 3 – Children learn ‘digraphs’ and
‘trigraphs’. This is when two letters come
together to make 1 sound. For example, ch.
The children will then learn alongside this an
increased number of tricky words and learn how
to write them successfully.
Phase 4 – Children consolidate their previous
learning.
Phase 5 – We will move children onto Phase 5 if
they show a secure understanding of Phases
2,3,4.
Phonics
10. Reading
Home-School Reading Scheme:
•In addition to the phonics programme, your child will also bring home a
‘home-school’ reading book from our selection of phonic reading schemes.
•This book is to be practised at home and it will be changed at school twice
a week. If your child is able to read the words in the book and talk about
what happened in the story, they will be given a new home reading book.
•It is suggested that you will enjoy and share this book for five minutes
every day, as opposed to a lengthy reading session once or twice a week.
•Your child will have a personal reading record in their book bag.
•Please feel free to make comments. You and your child can make a
response to the book by either writing a comment or drawing a picture.
Please ensure that your child brings their reading bag to school every day.
11. Guided Reading Sessions:
During the school week your child will be part of a small
guided reading group. We enjoy and share topic and
reading scheme books. With the teacher the group will
practise their developing phonic reading strategies and
practise ‘tricky words’ and the key ‘reception words’.
The children will practise talking about stories and books.
Story time:
Throughout the school day your child will be exposed to a
variety of books. There will be lots of opportunities for
your child to engage and share books that fire their
imagination and interest. We intend to ‘promote reading as
a source of pleasure and interest and motivate them to
value reading’ – (Letters and Sounds).
•Plea for Parent Helpers!
12. Writing Development
oDifferentiate pictures from
writing.
oSquiggles and making meaning to
their marks.
oLines and circles.
oInitial sounds.
oProminent sounds in the right
order.
oKey words.
oBuilding a sentence
13. Mathematical Development
In Reception your child will be learning to:
•Rote count to 20 and beyond.
•Count up to 10+ objects
•Recognise number 0-20.
•Use language of comparison – more / less, taller /
shorter, longer / shorter.
•Find 1 more / 1 less than any given number to 10+.
•Add 2 small groups of objects together.
•Understand the concept of subtraction / taking away.
•Make and talk about patterns.
•Name 2D and 3D shapes – circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, sphere, cylinder, cuboid, cube, cone.
•Use language to describe position.
14. Pack
•Phonics Information
•List of Phonics sounds and actions
•Tricky Words
•Letter formation
•Maths Information
•Number formation
•Reception Topic Overview
15. Homework
•Homework folders – sent home on a
Thursday and due back on a Monday.
•One piece of Literacy and Numeracy
homework each week.
•Home Reading
•High Frequency Words
•Barnaby Bear
•Parent Contribution to Learning
Journals
16. Dates
Please come to our Parents Evening on:
Tuesday 11th October - 3:30 – 6:00pm
Wednesday 12th October – 5:00 – 7:30pm
- Inspire Workshop – Summer Term
17. Thank you
• Thank you very much for
coming.
• We hope you have found it
useful and informative.
• Thank you for all your
continued support.
Our Mission Statement
“Learning and growing
together to be the best we
can be”.
