Category: Reception Blog

This week we covered the new phonemes air, er and double letters bb, rr, gg, dd, pp, ff, tt. We learnt the new tricky words are, sure and pure. In maths the children focussed on the principles of counting, number formation, exploring 5 and a bit to make numbers larger than 5 and 1 more

This week in phonics we learnt the sounds ur, ow, oi and ear, we also learnt some new tricky words my, by and all. In maths we have been learning about more and fewer and comparing sets of objects using new terminology we have learnt. This week we have read the book ‘Peepo!’ by Alan

This week we covered the sounds ai, ee igh and oa and we revised our tricky words. We were very excited to see that a visitor had been in the classroom! The tiger from the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr had visited us and left some paw prints! The children

Mr Taylor and Chester enjoyed sharing some of their favourite stories.

This week was Nativity week! We enjoyed dressing up and performing ‘Our First Nativity’. In the classroom we covered words ending with -s and tricky words we, me and be. In Maths we have been subitising, recognising numerals, matching quantities to numerals and playing games using giant dice. In other areas we have been thinking

This week the children were taught the new sounds sh, th, ng and nk and tricky words she, he, and of. In maths we focussed on counting by subitising to 5, singing songs like ‘Once I Caught a Fish Alive’ and playing the equal and not equal game. We read Room on the Broom and