Welcome to our Reception Classes

Week beginning: 23rd March 2026

Our Learning this week includes:

Literacy - Our class puppet has forgotten what fiction and non-fiction means. Can we help remind them what these words mean? Children will help identify features of fiction and non fiction and then will have a go at sorting books into fiction or non fiction piles. 

Our next session will focus on exploring a lifecycle book. What have we learnt? Can we write a factsheet to inform some of our friends in another class about the facts we know? 

In our final session we will share our fact sheet with teachers and friends across the school. We will practise sharing our spoken ideas audibly and communicating our ideas in full sentences. 

For our sentence writing we will remember our important 5 using our fingers to support us: 1. Capital letters, 2, finger spaces, 3. Words, 4. Read it back to ensure it makes sense, 5. Stop sign (exclamation, question mark, full stop). T to model re-reading as you write to check and fix mistakes. 

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 begin the week by developing the children’s sorting skills. The children will explore different ways to group objects by noticing their attributes, such as colour, size, or what they are used for. We will play a fun game called “How am I sorting?”, before encouraging the children to think of their own ways to sort objects.

We will also continue to practise our subitising skills to recognise double numbers. For example, the children will recall that ‘10 is made of 5 and 5; 5 and 5 make 10’.

Towards the end of the week, the children will use their sorting skills with numbers. Inspired by Numberblocks (Series 2, Episode 11), they will sort the Numberblocks into two groups: Odd Tops and Even Tops. By building and sorting the Numberblocks’ characters in these shapes, the children will begin to notice that even numbers can be split into two equal parts and arranged in twos (like doubles on our fingers), whilst odd numbers cannot be split into equal parts and will always have one left over.

Expressive Arts and Design - This week we will be making some special Easter cards, linked to our interest of chicks hatching. The children will start by using their fingers to decorate an egg shape, focussing on fine motor control so that we only do one dot with our finger. We will then make a little chick character to sit inside our egg. We can't wait to show you our finished cards on Friday! 

Our termly Class letter is viewable here