Reception

Welcome to Corrie!

Everyone in the Reception Team are incredibly excited to see you all again and to start a wonderful year off together.

The Reception team would like to welcome you to our year group page.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

 

What does your child need for Reception?

• A school uniform and shoes
• A water bottle
• A coat
• A pair of wellies
• A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
• A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

 

What learning will your child be exploring this half term?

This half term the focus is developing the children’s social and emotional development.

This involves helping children to develop a sense of seeing themselves as a valuable individual, build constructive and respectful relationships, express their feelings and consider the feelings of others, regulate behaviour accordingly, work and play cooperatively and take turns with others, give focused attention to what the teacher says.

 

The Topic this term is Me in My World!

 

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring numbers to 5, comparing groups within 5, exploring 2D and 3D shapes, change within 5, number bonds within 5 and space.

 

Literacy

This half term we will be exploring a variety of texts;

• The Something by Rebecca Cobb
• The Colour Monster Goes to School by Anna Llenas
• What Makes me a Me? by Ben Faulks and David Tazzyman
• Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy
• In Every House on Every Street by Jess Hitchman
• Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
• After the Storm by Nick Butterworth
• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
• My First Heroes: Black History by Campbell Books

Click some of the Youtube links at the bottom of this post to listen to them!

 

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be,

• Happy Hand Washing Song
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Five Little Ducks
• 5 Little Pumpkins
• One Potato, Two Potatoes
• Rain, Rain Go Away
• What’s the Weather?

 

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be learning the Phase 1 and Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the phase two key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Super Sounds and Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

 

Learning at Home

Each week, your child will bring home a homework book and a library book to share with you.

Library books will be changed every Friday. On this day, your child will also bring home their homework book containing a homework activity linked to their learning from that week. Together, you and your child can choose an activity from the homework menu below.

Homework can be completed directly in the homework book or presented in any way your child chooses. For example, photographs or videos of completed activities can be emailed to us at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk

Homework should be returned by the following Wednesday each week.

They will also begin to bring a reading book to share with you too – please join us for our Reading Workshop to find out more.

 

Are you looking forward to September too like us?

Many of you on our transition days were keen to find out how you can support child over the summer in preparation for September. Here’s a helpful page the BBC have put together that you may find useful – from articles, videos and resources to support you and your child with starting primary school.

Starting-Reception.pdf

 

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Youtube book links:

Firstly, Happy New Year. We hope you had a restful half term break and are as excited as we are to get back to having fun through learning.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

• A school uniform and shoes.
• A water bottle.
• A coat.
• A pair of wellies.
• A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
• A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

During this half term we will be extending the children’s social and emotional development, looking at dreams and goals and how to make healthy choices.

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

• Numbers to 10
• Counting 9 and 10
• Comparing numbers within 10
• Measure – Length, Height and Distance
• Measure – Weight
• Number bonds to 10

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

10 Green Bottles, One Big Hippo Balancing, Number Pairs to 10.

Literacy

As part of our Topics this half term, we will be exploring a variety of texts;

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be:

• Five Little Firemen
• Miss Polly had a Dolly
• Finger Family: People who Help Us
• I’m a Superhero (To the tune of I’m a Little Teapot)
• Paper Lanterns
• Mix a Pancake

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be continuing to enhance their Phase 1 and Phase 2 knowledge and continue working on the Phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home. The children will begin to learn the Phase 3 sounds and will begin to implement this to their writing.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

Learning at Home

Your child will continue to bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu inside their homework book. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Miss Battersby, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter

Welcome back to the second half term of the year.

We hope you had a restful half term break and are as excited as we are to get started.

Here you will find information about what your child has been learning in Reception and how you can help them at home. This page will be updated with information about current and future topics.

What does your child need for Reception?

• A school uniform and shoes.
• A water bottle.
• A coat.
• A pair of wellies.
• A set of spare clothes in a soft bag to hang on their peg.
• A smile!

Please label all of your child’s belongings with their name.

During this half term we will be extending the children’s social and emotional development, looking at celebrating differences, continuing our understanding of different celebrations and the changing seasons.

This half term, our learning themes are Autumn and Winter!
We’ll dive into the beauty of autumn—how the seasons change and the celebrations that make it special. Then, we’ll explore winter’s impact on our world, discover festive traditions, and bring the magic of Christmas to life with our nativity performance.

Maths

In Maths, in addition to following their own interests the children will be exploring:

• Change within 5
• Numbers bonds to 5
• Spatial Awareness
• Numbers to 10

Click the links below to sing along to our core Maths songs:

5 Currant buns ; Five little fingers in and out ; Number pairs to 5 ; 10 little elves

Literacy

As part of our Topics this half term, we will be exploring a variety of texts;

    

Our Core Nursery Rhymes and Songs shared will be:

• Five Currant Buns
• Five Little Fingers In and Out
• Jack and Jill
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes
• The Wheels on the Bus
• Five Little Elves

Phonics

In Phonics, the children will be continuing to enhance their Phase 1 knowledge and begin to build their Phase 2 Phonics sounds and the Phase 2 key words. These will be sent as homework for the children to practise at home.

We use the Story Time Phonics scheme to teach phonics. It supports the Phonics Planning of Letters and Sounds by learning the actions to the song for each new letter sound and the actions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

Outdoor Learning

The children have access to the outdoor area where we develop children’s creative ideas through different role-play areas enhanced with quality play equipment. The outdoor learning gives children the platform to learn and explore through all the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage curriculum.

Learning at Home

Your child will continue to bring home a library book and a reading book to share with you.

Their library, home reading book and homework book is handed in every Wednesday.

Their home reading book is changed on a Wednesday.

Your child’s library book will be changed every Friday.

Every Friday, your child will bring their homework book home to complete an activity that supports their learning that has taken place that week, which you can choose with your child from the menu inside their homework book. These can be completed in any order. They can be completed in their homework book or presented and shared in any way that they choose. For example, photographs and videos taken can be shared by email at reception@corrie.tameside.sch.uk Their homework is due the following Wednesday every week.

Happy Learning from the Reception class team.

Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Jones, Mrs Baguley and Miss Sowter