Mrs Murray & Mrs Franklin

Reception Class Page

Hello and welcome to Reception Class!

Mrs Murray teaches the Reception children on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and is supported by our teaching assistant Mrs Norbury who also runs our after school club. Mrs Franklin teaches in Reception for the rest of week supported by our other teaching assistant Mrs Ashworth.

This half term our topic is ‘Why is Water Wet?’. This is a water/ under the sea themed topic and the children have been involved in planning what they would like to learn about. The children will learn about where water comes from and the water cycle. They will Investigate objects that float and those that sink and will design and make a boat that floats on water. The children will explore freezing and melting and will find out what happens when you warm ice up using the sun. Children will explore water colours and will create patterns with watery paint.

English

Our Talk for Writing book for this half term is the traditional tale ‘The Rainbow Fish’

We will learn to tell the story using actions and a pictorial story map. They will write character descriptions for several character, write a setting description and will retell several parts of the story. Finally they will make their own story plan based on ‘The Rainbow Fish’ story and will write the beginning of this story with new characters and setting.

Phonics

At Mobberley we teach phonics and reading using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. This half term we will continue teaching Phase 4 phonics, reading and spelling words with initial and final blends. The children then apply this by reading and writing these words in sentences. We will also continue to review and practise all of the Phase 3 sounds. (please see our school phonics page for more information).

Mathematics

In Reception Class we follow White Rose Maths. This term we are focusing on ‘sharing and grouping’ ‘visualise, build and map’ and ‘Make connections’

• Explore sharing
• Explore grouping
• Even and odd sharing
• Play with and build doubles
• Identify units of repeating patterns
• Create own pattern rules
• Explore own pattern rules
• Replicate and build scenes and constructions
• Visualise from different positions
• Deepen understanding
• Patterns and relationships

Please click here to view our Summer 2 Curriculum Overview.

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday so please remember to come to school on these days wearing your PE kit.

Here is our weekly timetable. 

To find out more about the early years staff  please click here to view the ‘Meet the Early Years Team’ PowerPoint.

Click here for the ‘Greet the Teacher’ PowerPoint that we shared at our meeting at the start of September.