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.

It was wonderful to meet you all and to spend time with our new class on their transition visits in the summer term. We are very excited to be welcoming the children into Reception Class and are very much looking forward to getting to know them all. We will be spending the first few weeks settling the children into school life and class routines. Our main focus will be building positive relationships, playing in our continuous provision and ensuring the children feel happy and safe in their new environment.

Later this half term our topic is ‘Why Do You Love Me So Much?’. We will be learning about ourselves, our families and our friends. We will be thinking about our family tree and will create a timeline using family photographs/pictures. A grandparent visit will help the children learn about life and school in the past.

English

Our Talk for Writing book for this half term is ‘Owl Babies‘

We will learn to tell the story using actions, puppets and a pictorial story map. The children will also start to label pictures from the story.

Phonics

At Mobberley we teach phonics and reading using Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme. After the first full week we will start teaching Phase 2 phonics. We will be learning new sounds and will be practising hearing the sounds in CVC words. We will be encouraging the children to blend the sounds together to read simple words.

Mathematics

In Reception Class we follow White Rose Maths. This term we are focusing on ‘ ‘Match, Sort and Compare’ and ‘Talk About Measures and Patterns‘ this includes:

• Match pictures and objects
• Identifying a set
• Sort objects to a type
• Explore sorting techniques
• Create sorting Rules
• Compare amounts
• Compare size
• Compare mass
• Compare capacity
• Explore simple patterns
• Copy and continue simple patterns
• Create simple patterns.

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.