Year R – Willow

Welcome to our Reception class page! 

Our teacher is Mrs Dawkins and our teaching assistants are Mrs Fitzgerald, Miss Ewins (mornings) and Mrs Biddiss (afternoons) . 

Please explore this page to find out about all the fantastic learning that your children will experience.

Important information

Willow class will have P.E every Wednesday. Please ensure that your child arrives at school in their P.E kit and wearing trainers. 

TERM 1: What are we learning?

In Willow class this term we will be getting to know our classmates, learning the rules and routines of school and having lots of fun during play based and adult guided learning! 

Phonics

In Willow class we use the Phonics programme ‘Supersonic Phonic friends’. We shall be learning to hear initial sounds, recognise phonic sounds and blend sounds to read words. We will begin to learn some tricky words too!

This term we are focussing on learning the Basics 2 sounds and working on our blending and segmenting skills. 

Below is a link to support with pronouncing the sounds correctly. 

Literacy

The children will enjoy listening to a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry  texts! In our focus Literacy and topic lessons we will be exploring the following fiction texts : 

Maths

In maths we are learning to count accurately, recognise numbers and subitise! 

Here are some pictures of our fabulous indoor learning environment!

Supporting your children at home