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 whiteboard.

To explore these enriching materials, simply use your child's login, which you can find stuck inside 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 - scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Happy exploring!

The Reception Team

PSED/RSHE Lesson 

In our RSHE/ PSED lesson (October 2025 &  April 2026) we discussed the NSPCC’s PANTS rules.

These are designed to teach pupils how to stay safe from sexual abuse, without giving explicit information or telling scary stories or even using the term “sexual abuse”. We will start the lesson by introducing the children to a character called Pantosaurus.

We  showed them this clip:

NSPCC Pantosaurus (2 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SzbMEVYiyg&t=120s

This is a film featuring NSPCC’s  friendly mascot Pantosaurus.

His catchy song covers the main points of PANTS and  introduce the topic to the children.

In the lesson, children will learn about the ‘PANTS’ acrostic, which stands for:

• Privates are private.
• Always remember your body belongs to you.
• No means no.
• Talk about secrets that upset you.
• Speak up, someone can help.

The lesson is fully age-appropriate.

The Talk PANTS campaign helps teachers and parents of 4-11 year-olds keep their children safe from abuse.

Like the Green Cross Code, it takes a potentially tricky subject and gives teachers and parents the tools to talk about it in an engaging and age-appropriate way.

Cooking & Gardening

We are proud to offer all pupils the opportunity to take part in cooking sessions during the school day. These sessions take place in the School House kitchen and are led by the class teacher.

Fresh ingredients from our school garden are used wherever possible, helping children learn about food, nutrition, and sustainability.

To support this programme, we ask for a voluntary annual contribution of £13.00, which covers the cost of additional ingredients for the full school year (September 2025 – July 2026).

• To contribute, please log into your MCAS account
• The fee can be found in the Clubs section and added to your basket

Your support helps us continue offering this valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you!

Healthy Snacks

To help keep energy levels up and minds focused, we encourage pupils to bring a healthy snack for break time.

Great options include:

• Fresh fruit or vegetables
• Plain rice cakes or crackers
• A small pot of dried fruit
• Cheese cubes or yoghurt (in a cool pack)

Please do not send sweets, chocolate, crisps, or fizzy drinks. Let’s work together to support healthy habits and happy learning!

Capturing 'Wow moments' at home

We value contributions from parents/carers of moments of achievement that have happened outside of school.   If you observe your child achieving something new or wonderful, then let one of the Reception team know by sending in a photo with a note or just singing their praises.  The wow moments are stuck in your child’s learning journey and support assessments throughout the year.  Feel free to send in as many as you would like, parents/carers usually complete a page of wow moments each half term. 

Reading Books, Key Words, Home Learning and Book Bags

At Fielding, we follow the Read Write Inc programme.

The type of ‘book’ your child receives will depend on their phonics 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 and to help develop a child's comprehension skills.

All books will be changed once a week.

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

Help your child to get into this routine.

Inside their book bag please make sure that you always have:

• 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.

Book Bags

Book bags will be going home on Monday 22^nd September.

Your child must bring 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

When you collect your child at the end of the day, please check that your child has their book bag with them.

Home Learning

Home Learning is linked to our phonics lessons; It is sent home on a Friday.

Please help your child to do the activity at home.

Please keep the home learning at home, do not send it back to school, it is for you to keep at home.

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

English

Handwriting for capital letters:

w/c: 27.4.26 - I T H S

w/c: 4.5.26 - C O PU

w/c: 11.5.26 - V W X Z

w/c: 18.5.26 - A B D R

w/c: 1.6.26 - E F

Week commencing:  1.6.26 & 8.6.26 & 15.6.26

This week we will introduce the children to our new Learning Challenge:  What can I tell my new teacher about me?

Over the next three weeks, the children will be writing about themselves and drawing their own portraits.

The children will have opportunities to talk about their interests and likes. They will share this with each other.

Using the children’s ideas, we will write sentences about their favourite toys, places, food, animal, stories 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-read 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? Check your spelling. Think about digraphs and the key words.

Here are some examples:

My mum is kind.

My dog can bark.

I can swim.

I can jump high.

I like animals.

I like books.

I have a bike.

I have a cat.

I go to the park.

The children will draw their self-portrait and share their sentences about themselves with each other.

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, so that it is like a real interview and more fun for your child.

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.

Maths

Week commencing: 1.6.26 & 8.6.26 & 15.6.26

Over the next three weeks we will be covering 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 recognise when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.
• Automatically recall 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

• Automatically  recall 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

• Automatically  recall double facts:

• Automatically recall Number Bonds for 10:

• Odd and Even

• Be able to share a quantity equally

Supporting your child at home:

Talk to your child about numbers and what they know.

Does your child know any of the number of facts as posted above?

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

Actively notice numbers in your home environment and when you are out and discuss them with your child.

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

Parent workshops 

Thank you to the parents who were able to attend the curriculum workshops during this term. We have linked the training materials below.