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.  

The Character Traits that underpin the curriculum at Cheadle Hulme Primary School with associated icons - bravery, citizenship, curiosity, gratitude, integrity and kindness.

Summer Bookshelf

  • 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 teach the children about kindness for all living creatures and the environment around us. 
  • ‘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. 

Summer Term At A Glance

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

  • Instagram and Tapestry updates 
  • Educational visits throughout the year, including one off site visit per term. 
  • 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 Bancroft – Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Duffy – Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Smith – Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Threader – Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Warrington – Learning Support Assistant 

Miss Wood – Learning Support Assistant 

Miss Lyon – 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. 
  • Each week, one phonetically decodable reading book will be sent home on a Friday alongside a recommended reading book for Reception aged children. 
  • 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). You are welcome to send an alternative snack for your child, however this must be a fruit or vegetable. An oat milk alternative will be provided for any child with an allergy to milk. 
  • 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.  
  • Pupils in Reception wear their PE kits in place of regular school uniform on their PE day (day currently, Thursday). 
  • Please provide a pair of named wellies in a plastic bag, that are to be kept in school. 
  • 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 short questions. Please note that for any longer conversations, a meeting should be requested via our Admin team. 

Instagram & 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.