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 Do Zebras Have Stripes?’. This is a animal themed topic and the children have been involved in planning what they would like to learn about. The children will learn about animals around the world and their habitats. They will look at animal markings and patterns and find out how some animals camouflage themselves within their natural environment. Finally we will design and make a mini beast hotel to encourage insects and bugs into our environment for observation.

English

Our Talk for Writing book for this half term is the traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’

We will learn to tell the story using actions and a pictorial story map. They will then make wanted posters for the wolf, act out the wolf and pig characters and write speech bubbles. They will use different parts of the story map to write the beginning, middle and end of the story. Finally they will make their own story plan based on ‘The Three Little Pigs’ 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 teach 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 ‘Building 9 and 10’ ‘Exploring 3D shapes’ ‘To 20 and beyond’ and ‘Manipulate, compose and decompose’ this includes:

• Bonds to 10
• Making doubles to 10
• Explore even and odd
• Recognise and name 3D shapes
• Find 2D shapes within 3D shapes
• 3D shapes in the environment
• Identify more complex patterns
• Build numbers beyond 10
• Continue patterns beyond 10
• Verbal counting beyond 20
• Verbal counting patterns
• Select shapes for a purpose
• Rotate shapes
• Manipulate shapes
• Explain shape arrangements
• Compose shapes
• Decompose shapes

Please click here to view our Summer 1 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. Click here to download a copy.

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.