Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 13th April 2026

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - We retell a familiar story together taking a walk around our classroom, can we remember what happens next? We remind children that stories have a beginning, middle and end. We remind children about the word character and introduce the word setting. 

Children will come up with their own ideas to change parts of the story - can we make it funny/silly? What can we change?

We are then going to have a go at creating our own story ideas selecting from our story telling bag. During playing, learning and exploring time the children will be encouraged to become storytellers complete with storytelling cape and hat.

We will read the story of Little Red and discuss what we think about the story. We will record what we think about the story. 

Children will have sound mats and tricky word mats to support their writing.  We will remind children about pencil grip using the ‘pinch and flick’ method. We will remind children to use their correct writing position with feet flat on the floor. 

Maths - We will be revisiting the skill of counting. The children will help our learning puppet count bigger groups of objects by reminding it to say one number name for each object, to say the numbers in order, and to remember that the last number tells us how many there are. We’ll explore clever ways to count larger groups, making sure we don’t miss anything or count anything twice.

As they enjoy the challenge of counting bigger groups, the children will also strengthen their understanding of number patterns in our number names. They’ll get to use their number knowledge to make estimations too. For example, do they think there are more or fewer than 10 objects in a group?

Our Summer Term letter is viewable here

See below for phonics information for the Summer term