Reception

Welcome to the Reception Summer Term webpage

OOO-ARRRRGH, ME HEARTIES!!! We are kicking off our new topic with a Splish, Splash, Splosh into the deep blue sea! We will be learning facts about pirates who lived a long time ago and writing our very own fact pages about them.

We will be thinking about all things wet, wet, wet with our water based topic this half term. In Literacy we will be reading fiction books such as ‘The Snail and the Whale’ and ‘Billy’s Bucket’ as our inspiration for writing stories and postcards. We will be focusing on making our writing exciting to the reader by using some fabulous adjectives and exciting sentence starters. We will also be looking at some non-fiction books such as ‘My First Big Book of the Ocean’ to help us learn key facts about aquatic animals.

In Phonics, we will be continuing our Phase 4 scheme of work as well as reading and spelling Busy Bee words. This is our last half term to practice Teddy Cards together!

In Maths we will be revising our counting and subitising (speedy counting) skills, as well as learning all about pairs of numbers that make 10.

In Understanding of the World, we will be talking about all of the uses we have for water, investigating floating and sinking properties, as well as how to care for our oceans.

In P.E., we will be doing athletics and preparing for our Sports Day by practising sprinting, balancing, jumping and throwing skills.

In Art we will be focussing on transient (not permanent) art by doing some observational drawings of real fish, as well as creating transient pieces of art though collaborative sea collages and studying famous transient artists Andy Goldsworthy and Benjamin Von Wong.

In Music, we will be learning all about orchestras and making our own class band as well as practising songs as a year group for a rather special end of year sing-a-long. Watch this space!

As always, underpinning all subject areas is Communication and Language whereby we will be practising to express ourselves and continue to expand our vocabulary based on all the new learning we will be immersed in.

In PSED we will be talking about changes and getting ready for our exciting adventure into Year One! How did that happen already?! Get your tissues at the ready. It’s going to be emotional!

To enrich our learning, Mini Music Makers will be visiting us and doing sea themed workshops with us all.