Reception 2024/2025 

Below you will find the presentations from the Welcome to Reception evening back in the summer term. 

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Letters and Information

Cooking contribution 2024-25

In Reception we offer the opportunity for the children to participate in cooking activities throughout the year. In year 1 onwards pupils will have regularly cooking lessons in the school house. 

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients for these Reception sessions.  This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket.

Thanks so much! 

Purple Mash

Dear Parents,

We are thrilled to inform you that your child has access to a fantastic range of online resources on Purple Mash.

Over the year, your child will be introduced to various activities on Purple Mash by their class teacher.

Through this they will learn to independently use the interactive white board.

To explore these enriching materials, simply use your child's login, which you can find in their reading record. 

There are numerous engaging tasks linked to what we are covering in class, scroll down to find out what we are learning this week.

Below there is also a parent guide from the Purple Mini Mash team.

Happy exploring!

The Reception Team

Reading in Reception

At Fielding we follow the Read Write Inc programme.

We do a phonics assessment with each child, this provides us with your child’s reading level.

Your child will receive a reading book.

The type of ‘book’ your child receives will depend on their phonic knowledge.

Some children will focus on learning the sounds of the alphabet.

Some children will receive a sound blending book to help develop their blending skills.

Some children will receive a book called ‘My Phonics Book’. A letter will be sent home with information of how this works.

Some children will receive a reading book.

In addition to this, your child will choose their own picture book.

Your child is not expected to read this book, this book is to be shared with an adult for enjoyment.

All books will be changed once a week.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school every day.

Please make sure that you always have the following inside your child’s book bag:

• picture book
• reading book
• reading record

Please look through the reading record, there is lots of useful information inside.

Please sign the reading record every week and write a comment about how your child is progressing with their reading.

This is really important for the class teacher to see in school.

Home Learning 

Every Friday, your child will receive some phonics home learning from their phonics teacher. This must be done at home and does not need to be returned to school.

If you have any further questions please talk to your class teacher.

Warm wishes,

The 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: 16.6.25

We continue with our Learning Challenge: 

What can I tell my new teacher about me?

The children will be writing about themselves and drawing their self-portraits.

The children will have opportunities to talk about their interests and likes.

Using the children’s ideas, we will write sentences about their favourite toys, places, food, animals, sports, interests etc.

In each lesson we will go through how to write a sentence:

• compose the sentence
• rehearse the sentence – can you ‘hold’ (remember) the sentence?
• count the words
• re-reading the sentence as you write it
• remember: capital letter, finger spaces, full stop
• check your sentence – Does it make sense? Have you left any words out? Have you checked your spelling? Think about digraphs and the key words.

We will encourage children to extend their sentences by using and, with or because.

Here are some examples:

I can swim with arm bands.

I like eggs and chips.

I have a big, red bike.

My mum is kind.

My dad has a beard.

I have two sisters.

We will look at how to draw a self-portrait with step by step guidance.

We will practise on whiteboards first.

The children will have mirrors to look at their features and add more detail to their drawings. 

We will look back at the first attempt they did back in September and compare both drawings. The children will clearly see the progress they have made.

We will celebrate their work, by laying out all the self-portraits in the classroom 'gallery style', for the children to view and talk about with their friends.

The children are familiar with this activity as we have done this for Book Week and other Learning Challenges.

Supporting your child at home:

Play a game where you ask each other questions about your likes and interests.

Get a prop to use as a microphone, interview your child. Then let your child interview you!

For example:

• What is your favourite colour? Why?
• What is your favourite fruit?
• Can you swim?
• Can you ride a bike?
• What are you really good at?
• What have you learnt to do since you started Reception?

When your child answers the question, prompt them to give you more information.

By playing this game they will come prepared to lessons with ideas of what to write about.

Next week in English:

We will be learning about the artist Frida Kahlo.

Maths

Week commencing: 16.6.25

This week we will continue to cover a range of concepts in maths.

These will all be concepts we have covered throughout the year.

Our focus will be on the Early Learning Goals for Number and Numerical Patterns:

• Have a deep understanding of numbers to 10
• Be able to subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5

• Be able to verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system.
• Be able to compare quantities up to 10 and recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.
• Automatically recall  addition facts:

The children need to know all of these addition facts.

• Automatically  recall subtraction facts:

• Automatically  recall double facts:

1 + 1 = 2

2 + 2 = 4

3 + 3 = 6

4 + 4 = 8

5 + 5 = 10

• Automatically recall 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

• Be able to share a quantity equally

These are just a few of the things we will be learning in our maths lessons.

Supporting your child at home:

Talk to your child about numbers and what they know.

Do they know any of the number facts as posted above?

Does your child have a number line or number square at home?

With your child, actively notice numbers in your home environment and when you are out and about walking, shopping, travelling etc.

Children will be fascinated to see that numbers and maths are everywhere and essential to our everyday lives.

Next week in maths:

We will continue going over number facts with a focus on automatically recalling them.