Reception Weekly Review

  Prime Areas

(Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal, Social and Emotional Development). 

What an exciting last week of term! With the disco, Easter Egg hunts the children have had such fun. Our thanks go to FoR for all their efforts in arranging these activities. Our Easter crafts have also been a lot of fun and the children loved decorating baskets and making wax resist eggs for their cards. However, the most favoured activity was cooking ‘Easter Nests’ from melted chocolate and shredded wheat. The classroom smelt amazing.

PATHs /PSED

As our PATHs lessons have come to an end, we spent Circle Time addressing the issues that arise in the children’s play. Sharing and taking turns were our main focus and we talked about using the timer and negotiating kindly with others. Of course we linked our discussions to the Ravenstone Values characters (especially Kedrick Kind, Hannah Happy and  Rahimah Respect) and ‘Our Feelings Chat’ from our PATHS work.

    English   

This week we finished our work on Yucky Worms. We used our visualisers and the Wormery we made to look carefully at how worms move. Some children chose to write sentences about this independently in Learning Through Play. We also looked at the poem, ‘Today I saw a little worm’ by Spike Milligan and had a go at moving like a worm. It was lots of fun! For our final session we reviewed what we thought about worms and looked again at the ‘Scale of Yuckiness’ that we created at the very start of this topic. 

Phonics

This week in Phonics we continued to read words with two or more digraphs, for example, ‘queen’ and ‘shorter’.  We also learnt all about longer words that end in –ing, for example, ‘winking’ and ‘zooming’. We reviewed the Tricky Words, ‘he’, ‘we’, ‘me’, ‘be’, ‘was’, ‘you’, ‘they’ and ‘all’.  We are so impressed with how much the children have learnt and how automatically they apply the strategies we teach to their independent reading, for example, ‘spot the digraphs’ and ‘chunk it up’.  Reading Practice was a pleasure as always. We have not sent the books home due to the Easter break but please do read the sharing books with your children. please also look through the Tricky Words and Phase 3 sounds - either on your Grapheme Mats or with the flashcards if you have them. Thank you 

  Maths 

This week we worked on shapes, investigating both 2D and 3D examples. Through playing some very exciting Busy Things games we looked at how we could move shapes into a given position using slides, turns and flips. We also copied increasingly complex 2D pictures and patterns with 3D resources. We had a lot of fun playing interactive digital games where we used  our knowledge of properties of shapes to predict a partially hidden shape.

Information and Key Dates

Information

Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you

 Key Dates

Summer Term - starts on Tuesday 22nd April 2025

We hope you have a wonderful Spring Break and wish you a very Happy Easter.   

 Miss Roborgh, Mrs Cunningham, Miss Banton, Tara and Angie 

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 Things we need

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks