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 2: What are we learning?

Willow Class will be building upon the super routines that they have been working on so far at school! We will be continuing to have a mix of whole class learning, small group activities and challenges during Discovery Time to choose from. 

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. 

https://youtu.be/UCI2mu7URBc?feature=shared

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 continuing to focus on our super counting, subitising and number skills. 

We are also learning all about 5! We are finding different ways to add two numbers together to make 5. 

Finally, we will be exploring 2D shape, learning to measure time in simple ways and comparing day and night. 

In R.E we will be learning about how Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus in their church, home and community.

In PSHE we will be exploring the theme: celebrating difference.

Here are some pictures of our fabulous indoor learning environment!