Welcome to Reception

Summer Term in Reception

The inspirational texts on our Summer bookshelf will inspire our learning across the curriculum.

The Reception year strives to provide a unique, challenging and inspirational curriculum based on new and memorable experiences. Our learning during the summer term will be inspired by our wonderful high-quality texts that help us celebrate our individuality and spark our imagination. The texts selected will ignite curiosity and enthusiasm within both the prime and specific areas of learning and development within the Early Years Foundation Stage.

During the Summer term in Reception, we will continue to read a variety of inspirational and carefully selected texts that explore the character traits of kindness, citizenship, integrity, curiosity, bravery and gratitude.

We will begin our term by re-acquainting ourselves with a friendly and regular face on our Reception curriculum bookshelf, that of Squirrel, in Alice Hemming’s ‘That’s My Flower’. In this instalment, Squirrel explores the trait of curiosity with Bird showing kindness to help Squirrel find out how to keep the flower safe!

‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ teaches the children about growing a seed, and with a little patience, Jasper’s curiosity can be rewarded!

‘Adoette’ by Lydia Monks, is a wonderful tale about a tree, growing from a young sapling into a mighty oak and becoming the heartbeat of the community. It will teach the children about citizenship and gratitude.

In ‘The Snail and the Whale’ we learn about the growth of two different characters on a voyage around the world. We will use this to learn about different habitats, encountering bravery and kindness with the journeys across the oceans.

‘A Dress with Pockets’ by Lily Murphy is a funny and light-hearted story that can spark adventure, bravery and integrity in each of us.

‘The Bog Baby’ will be utilised alongside our Reception trip this term and will teach the children about kindness for all living creatures.

‘We’re All Wonders’ helps the children understand what it is like to be different and is a wonderful book to encapsulate all of our character traits.

In Maths we will build on our deep understanding of numbers to 10 and move onto exploring numbers to 20. We will begin to look at addition and subtraction as well as sharing and grouping. We will explore spatial reasoning and properties of shape. 

In Literacy we will continue to learn new digraphs and trigraphs, develop our reading strategies and continue to build on the format and structure of a sentence. Within writing we will explore writing for different purposes based on our bookshelf texts. 

Across other areas of the EYFS curriculum, we will look at how we have grown since we were babies, think about how life has changed from the past and will look at life cycles of plants and animals. We will continue to create with different materials and use music, dance and role play to be imaginative and expressive. 

Summer Term Highlights

Tapestry and Instagram updates
Educational visits throughout the year, including one off site visit per term (Lower Moss Wood)
Expanding our Understanding of the World by looking at different festivals and celebrations
Science investigations
Singing circles and in-class musical performances
Sports Day
Opportunities to learn outside of the classroom

The Reception Team

Mrs Cheshire – Class Teacher

Mr Ross – Class Teacher

Mrs Smith – Learning Support Assistant

Miss Wood – Learning Support Assistant

Important Information

Please make sure your child’s book bag containing their reading books and Reading Record is brought into school every day.
1 x phonetically decodable reading book will be sent home on a Friday alongside a recommended reading book for Reception aged children. The children will be sent the new sound(s) they have learnt that week alongside any new red words.
Please comment in your child’s Reading Record when you have read with your child.
Your child’s reading books and Reading Record should be brought into school each day.
Your child will take part in Shared Reading with an adult, across the week.
Children are provided with a fruit or vegetable snack each day as well as milk (this is currently provided for pupils by the Government until they are 5 years old).
Children in Reception are eligible for Universal Infant Free School Meals entitlement. You are of course welcome to send your child in with a packed lunch (please remember nothing in these should include nuts).
Children should have their water bottle in school every day. They will have access to this throughout the school day.
PE Kits should be in school every day. They will be sent home at the end of each half term to be washed and then returned on the first day of the following half term.
Reception children will enter school through their own classroom door from the playground. Please support a successful start to their day by being on time. Whilst we appreciate it can be tricky to say goodbye on some mornings, it can be helpful to keep this brief and for children to enter school independently from the moment they start.
The children will be dismissed from their door onto the school playground, directly to their parent/carer. If the person collecting at the end of the day is different to usual, please inform the school’s admin team before pick-up so that Class Teachers are aware and know who to look out for.
Your Child’s class teacher will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and answer any questions.

As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Reception this term!

Instagram and Tapestry

As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Reception this term. Please speak to our admin team for access to the Reception Instagram feed @chps_reception

You will receive personalised activation information from Tapestry to your registered email.