Welcome to Reception

Class Teacher - Miss Prescott 

Support Staff - Mrs Griffths, Miss Braisdell, Mrs Drake and Mrs Walton 

Spring Term 2025

Topic: 

Our topic this term is ‘Marvellous Marchwiel'. If your child has any books, pictures or objects related to this topic, they are welcome to bring them in to show the other children. Please do not send in anything valuable or breakable.

The children will be able to choose from a wide range of activities across the six areas of learning, both inside and outdoors. We will be going on an exploratory walk around Marchwiel, visiting the local church and finding out about all the marvellous happenings that go on in the church. We will meet with a knowledgeable person of the church such as, the vicar or parishioner, who will explain about the different artefacts, their name and their purpose. We will use photographs of our journey to plan our walk and create our own messy maps and later use these in our block play to act out our experience.

Literacy & Communication:

Our focus text is 'The Something' By Rebecca Cobb.

We will create the illusion of a hole in the outdoor area for children to discover when they arrive in school. Children will be given the opportunity to discover this mysterious hole. Children will be asked open questions to generate ideas and discussions such as;
• What is this? How did it get here?
• Is it dangerous? How do you know?
• Should we investigate it? Why?
• Could something be down the hole? Like what?
• What kind of creatures live down holes?
• Will it get any bigger?
• What should we do?

You will have to wait and see what happens next. I will update the page at the end of the term with what we found out. 

Read, Write, Inc. Phonics:

We will continue to sing lots of songs and rhymes throughout the day in both English and Welsh. We will be continuing our Read, Write, Inc. journey learning set 1, 2 and 3 sounds, blending green words and using them in our writing.        

Below is a video showing how to say the set 1, 2 and 3 sounds.

https://youtu.be/yln6PpV1G1I

Below is a link for a video Read Write Inc. sound blending tutorial using phonics flashcards.

https://youtu.be/S8vuje-wMQw

Mathematical Development and Numeracy:

We will also continue to follow Whiterose maths.

We will be covering: 

• Alive in 5
• Mass and Capacity
• Growing 6, 7 and 8
• Length and Height
• Building 9 and 10
• Exploring 3D shapes

Possible opportunities for Topic Maths:

• Theme based maths from the story ‘The Something’ Write a menu for the fox, badger troll or the dragon. How many things can they eat?
• Count how many animals live in holes?
• Draw a garden with two more than 8 holes.
•  Investigate the length of the different animals in the story.

Compare sizes of e.g., frogs, dragons and recap the vocabulary e.g., the dragon is longer than the frog Compare different balls by size, weight, shape.

Autumn Term 2024

Our topic this term is 'Winter Wonders’ based on the storybook ‘Lost and Found’ by Author, Oliver Jeffers.

An egg appeared in our Antarctic role-play area and we didn't know what type of egg it was or what type of animal left it. We used our new 'All about Eggs' non-fiction book to work out what it could be. It was a penguin egg.

Next a giant penguin arrived at school with a lost and found sign around its neck.  Our first job was to learn how to look after the Penguin until we could find somewhere safe for it to return.

We made an Arctic small world scene and explored ice in our investigation stations outdoors and indoors.  We completed an ice melting experiment with different materials, we predicted, monitored and evaluated what happened.    

Literacy 

Our focus text is ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers, We 

We will be focusing on the Read, Write, Inc. phonics.  We will be continuing to learn all individual sounds and practise blending them together to read. Alongside this, we practice forming our letters correctly and beginning to spell simple cvc and ccvc words.  We are moving on to digraphs, special friends,  from set 1 sounds and set 2 sounds. During our news time and throughout the day we will continue to build on speaking in complete sentences and beginning to write a sentence. Will also continue to strengthen our finger muscles for writing through ‘Funky Finger Gym’ activities, dough disco and squiggle while you wiggle.

Mathematical Development 

 We follow White Rose Maths which focuses on helping students to acquire a deep and long-term understanding of maths they can use in different real-life situations. Alongside White Rose Maths we will use lots of exploration, problem solving and songs and rhymes. We will continue to build on our subitising skills, counting, reading and writing numbers. We will focus on numbers up to 5.

Areas of focus:

• Matching, sorting and comparing
• Talk about measure and patterns
• It's Me 1,2,3.
• Circles and triangles
• 1,2,3,4,5.
• Shapes with  sides

Things I Need In Reception 

My PE kit -  white shorts, white t–shirt, black pumps or trainers and dark plain tracksuit bottoms or leggings. Please wear PE kits to school on Thursday

My Coat  - We go outside to play and learn even if it is raining.

My Schoolbag - This will be used to carry homework, letters and reading books to and from school.

We are starting 'Forest School Fridays' again in February and children will need wellies, warm clothes that are ok to get mucky, waterproofs, if they have any, and a hat and gloves if its cold.  

Labels - Please put your name on everything! 

Snack Money is currently £2.00 a week which is paid half-termly.

Please ensure your child is here by 8.50 am. If your child is ill, please notify the school as soon as possible on 01978 353760 or email - mailbox@deiniol-pri.wrexham.sch.uk