Reception 2025/2026

Below you will find the presentation from the Welcome to Reception evening. 

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Letters and Information

Reading books and Picture Books!

All reading books and picture books must be returned to school on Monday 14th  July. Teachers will collect all books on this day. Reading routines will continue in school as normal but no more school books will go home.

Please ensure that you return any other school books you may have at home.

Thank you, Reception Team

Learning in Reception

English 

Our handwriting letters this week are: revising all letters

Letters we have practised:

i/ l / t / h / b / p / r / n/ m/ c / o / d/ a / g / q/ e/ s/ u/ y/ v/ w/ k/ f/ j/ x / z

Week commencing: 14.7.25

Our lessons this week will continue to focus on our Learning Challenge ‘What can I tell my new teacher about me?’

The transition lessons will prepare the children for the next steps.

This week in English we will start the week by looking at lower case letters and upper case letters.

We will ask children to look carefully and identify which letters look the same when they are capital letters and which letters look different.

These letters look the same when written as a capital letter, they are just bigger:

Cc, Kk, Oo, Pp, Ss, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Zz 

These letters look different when written as a capital letter:

Aa, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Ll, Mm, Nn, Qq, Rr, Tt, Yy

For the rest of the week we will be reading the story of The Colour Monster and the Colour Monster Goes to School, both by Anna Llenas.

The book explores different emotions:

• happiness
• sadness 
• anger
• fear
• calm

We will use the story to help children talk about these different emotions and how they are feeling about coming to the end of the Reception year and looking forward to starting in Year 1.

The children will make their own monsters, write about how their monster is feeling and make some stick puppets to be able to act out their feelings with their friends in class.

Supporting your child at home:

Talk to your child about a time when you felt:

• happiness
• sadness 
• anger
• fear
• calm

Draw, paint or use junk modelling material to make your own feelings monster. Ggrrrr!!!!

Maths

Week commencing: 14.7.25

Our maths lessons this week focus on patterns within numbers to 10 and automatic recall. These are revision lessons and will be familiar to the children. In some lessons we will be using the rekenreks to explore and practise these facts.

When looking at patterns within numbers to 10 we will be going over:

Double facts:

1 + 1 = 2

2 + 2 = 4

3 + 3 = 6

4 + 4 = 8

5 + 5 = 10

Number Bonds for 10:

 0 + 10 = 10

 1 + 9 = 10

 2 + 8 = 10

 3 + 7 = 10

 4 + 6 = 10

 5 + 5 = 10

 6 + 4 = 10

 7 + 3 = 10

 8 + 2 = 10

 9 + 1 = 10

10 + 0 = 10

Odd and Even:

Odd numbers:   1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Even numbers: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8

This week’s focus is also on deepening the children’s developing automaticity with some number facts, without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids . Throughout the Mastering Number Programme, the children have been focusing on number relationships and on the composition of number in a variety of contexts. They have had repeated practice of exploring the ‘numbers within’ the numbers to 10. This week’s activities will help to provide further opportunities to develop their familiarity with these number relationships.

Addition facts:

0 + 5 = 5              0 + 4 = 4          0 + 3 = 3           0 + 2 = 2         0 + 1 = 1

1 + 4 = 5              1 + 3 = 4          1 + 2 = 3           1 + 1 = 2         1 + 0 = 1

2 + 3 = 5              2 + 2 = 4          2 + 1 = 3           2 + 0 = 2

3 + 2 = 5              3 + 1 = 4          3 + 0 = 3

4 + 1 = 5              4 + 0 = 4

5 + 0 = 5

Subtraction facts:

5 – 0 = 5              4 – 0 = 4          3 – 0 = 3           2 – 0 = 2         1 – 0 = 1

5 – 1 = 4              4 – 1 = 3          3 – 1 = 2           2 – 1 = 1         1 – 1 = 0

5 – 2 = 3              4 – 2 = 2          3 – 2 = 1           2 – 2 = 0

5 – 3 = 2              4 – 3 = 1          3 – 3 = 0

5 – 4 = 1              4 – 4 = 0

5 – 5 = 0

Supporting your child at home:

Help your child to really deepen their understanding and commit these facts to  their long term memory by:

• making number fact posters
• playing hiding games using objects. For example: I’ve got 5 frogs altogether. Close your eyes while I hide some. [Place 1 or more frog toys/pictures under a cloth Now, open your eyes. How many frogs are still here? How many are hiding in the pool? How do you know? Can you show me on your fingers? Encourage your child to describe what they notice. (e.g. “5 frogs is made from 3 frogs and 2 frogs.”)
• Building a tower of 4, 5 or 10 interlocking cubes or Lego blocks. Say ‘ I’m going to hide the tower behind my back and snap some cubes off…’  Show your child the cubes that have been snapped off. How many have I got left behind my back? How do you know?

Helping your child to learn these number facts will support their learning and  progress in Year 1.