Early Years Foundation Stage

In Literacy, Nursery will develop phonological awareness by exploring rhymes, syllables and initial sounds. They will also talk about stories using new vocabulary.

In Maths, Nursery will recognise small amounts, show numbers on their fingers and compare more and fewer. They will also explore shapes and patterns and talk about what they see.

In Understanding the World, Nursery will use all their senses to explore natural materials and notice similarities and differences between them.

In Expressive Arts and Design, Nursery will explore and choose materials to create their own ideas, draw with increasing detail, and experiment with colour and colour mixing. They will also take part in simple pretend play, using objects to represent something else.

In Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Nursery will become more independent in managing their self-care needs and play with others, developing and extending their ideas together.

As the weather begins to warm, it is important to put your child’s name on their clothes. This makes it easier to identify any misplaced items.

PSED

In PSED, linked to discussions about sharing our world with many different types of creatures, we will discuss how we can show sensitivity towards nature and towards others.

C&L

In C&L, Reception will reflect on the core book, and offer explanations for why things happen. Children will be encouraged to use recently introduced vocabulary and learning they remember from the Spring term.

PD

In PD, Reception will continue to develop theiur overall body strength, coordination and agility needed to engage successfully in physical education. In the first week, children will recreate some of Superworm’s transformations, linked to our first core book.

Mathematics

In Maths, Reception will practise counting to 20 and beyond. They will learn about teen numbers using a complete and incomplete ten frame together to form. We will prompt children to realise they can find the teen number, counting on from 10, using the full ten frame as the starting point, rather than zero.

Literacy

In the first week of Summer term, in Literacy, Reception will read ‘Superworm’ and write related sentences with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. By now, Reception have finished learning all the phase 3 sounds so the children will become more confident segmenting sounds in words and using the phonics mat independently to spell words.

UTW

In UTW, Reception will revisit the effect of changing seasons as we will now be enjoying the Spring weather! We will begin studying our tank of frog’s spawn that we will be watching develop over the course of the term.

EA&D

In EA&D, Reception will be focusing on singing, in particular, singing in a group with increasingly matching pitch and following the melody. In their music lessons, they will listen attentively and discuss a new type of music.

The Reception team would like to remind you to bring in your child’s reading journal and school book on a Wednesday so it can be changed and return on a Friday.