Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 3rd November 2025

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - We are going to create new books to inform our friends and teachers about somebody special in our lives. You can talk to your child at home about who is special to them and why.

The children will think about who is special and talk with partners about their own ideas. We will share ideas as a class. We will remind ourselves what a front cover has: an illustration and a title. The children will be encouraged to draw their special person. We will model this drawing anticlockwise circles to support handwriting. We will model and support children to use ‘pinch and flick’ to hold their pencil. Children will have a go at identifying the sounds in the people they choose. E.g. n-a-n for nanny or m-u-m. Children will use sound mats to support them to write these letters. 

We will create the first page of our book sharing information about our special person. We will attempt to write the sounds we can identify, using our sound mats to support us. 

Maths - We will be deepening the children’s understanding of the number 5. We’ll begin by linking the number 5 to the five fingers on one hand. This will help the children to develop a strong sense of what "5" really means as a quantity. The children will also explore different representations of the number 5, using both their fingers and the familiar dot pattern found on a dice. These representations are important tools that help children recognise quantities quickly and understand the composition of numbers. 

At the end of the week, we’ll extend this idea to show that two hands make 10 fingers, laying the groundwork for future learning about number bonds.

Understanding of the World - This week we we will having a real bonfire on the playground with our friends in Nursery and Owls. First we will talk about safety and what we can do to make sure we are safe whilst watching the flames. We will watch a video about firework night safety and talk about some rules for our bonfire. We will join the other classes to sit on the playground and the adults will light the bonfire. Whilst we sit around it, we will share some snacks - firework biscuits and mini jacket potatoes. We will also sing a bonfire song together. 

Expressive Arts and Design - This week we have a visitor from a potter coming in to work with us. She will be showing us how to handle and shape clay. We will explore manipulating the clay to create a shape, and using a tool to make a hole in the top so it can hang. Gill, the potter, will then take them home to her kiln where she will fire them for us. Soon we will decorate our hanging decorations and bring them home. 
 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here