Mrs Mead and Mrs Nowlan-Hunt are very pleased to welcome your child into Reception and look forward to supporting them as they begin their school journey.

This term, we are delighted to be diving into the wonderful world of Living and Growing with our topic Ready, Steady, Grow! 🌱✨
Our curious learners will explore all the magical ways humans and animals change as they grow. We’ll be discovering how humans develop over time, watching the fascinating life cycles of frogs and chickens, and learning how to lovingly care for a plant from a tiny seedling to a flourishing green friend.

The children will investigate what a seed needs to grow strong and healthy, and they’ll explore a variety of animals and their young, noticing how each one is special and unique. From sprouting seeds to fluffy chicks, it’s going to be a joyful journey filled with wonder, giggles, and lots of hands-on learning!

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Maths

This term, our fabulous little mathematicians will be whizzing through the counting sequence and becoming super confident as they count out sets of objects from a larger group!  They’ll be using exciting mathematical vocabulary such as ‘more than’, ‘less than’, and ‘equal to’ to compare numbers like true number detectives.

Through joyful games and hands‑on activities, including fun investigations like finding out how many ducks are splashing on the pond. The children will deepen their understanding of how a whole can be made up of smaller parts. 🦆💛

They’ll also become brilliant sorters and organisers as they explore grouping objects using different criteria, such as colour, size, or function. Get ready for lots of problem‑solving, exploring, and “Aha!” moments! 🌈🔢✨

Phonics/Literacy

This term, the children will be buzzing with phonics fun as they consolidate their Phase 3 sounds, using them confidently for blending and segmenting words. Once they’re feeling super secure, we’ll begin exploring longer words and words with double letters, such as 'ladder'.

Next, we’ll dive into words ending in –ing, before moving on to the excitement of compound words, like farmyard, where two little words join together to make something brand new! 

Towards the end of Spring Term 2, the children will learn how to add ‘s’ and ‘es’ to words, helping them understand plurals and building their confidence as blossoming young readers and writers.

In our Literacy lessons, we’ll continue crafting simple sentences, drawing on our growing phonics knowledge. We’ll enjoy exploring a wonderful selection of texts, including Jasper’s Beanstalk by Mick Inkpen, How a Tadpole Grows by Eric Carle, and Sam Grows a Sunflower by Axel Scheffler. These stories will inspire our writing, spark curiosity, and encourage children to notice the magical changes that happen in the natural world.

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