Welcome to our Reception class page! 

Our teacher is Miss Herring and our teaching assistants are Mrs Freer-Ash, Mrs Cross and Mrs Winters. 

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

Important information

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

TERM 3: What are we learning?

Physical Development 

In addition to Dough Disco and Squiggle programmes, we are focussing on 'Object control' in our P.E lessons. 

We are continually working on improving our gross and fine motor skills through a range of activities during Discovery Time.

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 continue to learn new sounds and tricky words this term and practise writing words in our phonics books. 

This term we are consolidating Basics 2 and beginning to learn Basics 3 sounds

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 lessons we will be exploring the following fiction texts : 

Maths

In maths we are continuing to build upon our counting and number recognition skills. We will be using our skills to explore the composition of number and compare quantities. 

Additionally we shall be exploring length, height and capacity.

Here are some pictures of our fabulous indoor and outdoor learning environments!