Reception 2024 - 2025

WELCOME TO RECEPTION!

Ourselves and Festivals  

What are we doing this Autumn half term?  

Our topic is 'Ourselves and Festivals'. We will be talking about ourselves, our families and our friends. Later in the term, we think and find out about festivals special to us, including Diwali and Christmas. 

What are we learning this half term?  

This half term we will be looking at the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'. We will be focusing on joining in with repeated refrains within the story. We will be practising our concepts of prints, for example finding the title, turning pages one at a time and finding where we start to read. We also talk about the characters and settings in the story. We begin our mark-making by drawing and labelling. Just like Little Red Riding Hood's Mother we will be designing, making and tasting our own sandwiches to help Grandma to get better.

In maths, we will be exploring numbers. We will be learning how to count using out five principles of counting.  Next we will learn how to subitise small numbers, knowing what a number is without counting each object.  Then we will think about when we can subisitise a number and when we need to count a set of objects.  After that we will compare sets of objects by matching.  Finally we will begin to develop the language of ‘whole’ when talking about objects which have parts.  On a daily basis, we will count in order, understanding the ordinal number system (every number has its place in the counting order). 

Important Information

PE will be on a Friday (inside). Children to come to school in school uniform and bring in a PE kit to keep here. 

Reading meeting 18th September 2024- 5.00-6.30pm

Share a book- the first Friday of each month. The first Share a book session will be Friday 4th October 2024 (stickers in Reading Records).  

Our Autumn Walk will be on Thursday 10th October RMP- 9.30-11.00 am and RB- 1.30-3.00 pm

Autumn Art Workshop- parents warmly welcomed- TBC

Phonics

At Puss Bank School and Nursery, we use the phonic scheme Little Wandle Revised Letters and Sounds to teach phonics. 

Please follow the link here to gain access to the Little Wandle Parent Information section on their website. 

Useful websites to help at home

How to say phase 2 sounds with your child.

Please watch this video with your child to support them in saying their new phase 2 sounds. 

Maths support

Maths Tutorial for EYFS - find out how children learn to count and understand numbers in the EYFS.
Remember to email if you have any concerns or worries:-

How to contact us

Mrs Mallett - RMP.Homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk 

Miss Bours- RB.Homework@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk 

Or email admin@pussbank.cheshire.sch.uk

We have an open door policy at Puss Bank Primary School and we are always available to talk in the morning or after school.  Due to training needs we will find it tricky to speak to you on a Tuesday after school but we are always happy to arrange another time to chat about anything that you wish to raise with us.

If something happens during the day please feel free to telephone the school directly and a member of the office team will relay that information directly to the class teacher.