Reception Newsletter Summer Term
Reception Class Newsletter Summer Term 2025.
Dear parents,
Welcome back to a new term. We do hope that you all had a restful and enjoyable Easter break. We warmly welcome Hetty Smith and her family to the class and school.
We have another busy term and we trust that this letter will provide you with some useful information.
Our topics for this term are; Once Upon a Time, introducing children to story language through reading a variety of traditional tales. We hope to grow our own bean stalks as tall as Jack’s! Then after half-term, what minibeasts inhabit the world around me?
| Communication and Language | Extending vocabulary, talking about the world around them and sharing opinions, listening to different versions of a traditional tale and retelling in their own words. Explaining how they will help their own beanstalk to grow and keeping a bean diary. |
| Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Taking steps to resolve conflicts – reaching a compromise, showing sensitivity to the needs of others, adjust behaviour to different situations, take change in their stride. |
| Physical Development | Handle and use simple tools safely and effectively, show good control in large and small movements, move confidently in a range of ways and negotiate space, know the importance of exercise and diet towards keeping healthy. In PE, we will be working outdoors with balls, and tennis rackets. We will be using our Sticky Kids resources with a sporty theme.
We will also be thinking about health and hygiene and advising the Giant at the top of the beanstalk how to become healthier! |
| Literacy | Write meaningful sentences in a range of contexts, ascribe meaning to the marks they draw, write and paint, break flow of speech into words, read and understand simple sentences using phonic knowledge to decode regular words, read some common irregular words: Phase 4 Tricky Words; said, have, like, so, do, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what. Please display these words at home. Begin to use traditional story language heard in their own writing. We will also focus on comprehension in our guided reading sessions getting the children to demonstrate an understanding of what they have read through questioning. |
| Maths | Number – ordering numbers, counting reliably, counting in 2s and 5s, doubling and halving, adding and subtracting.
Shape – 3D shapes around – recognising names and properties. Capacity and Weight – water play measuring and balancing. |
| Understanding the World | Show interest in the lives of people familiar to them, notice that children don’t always share the same interests, thinking about special days. Forest School – minibeasts, growing beans. Using technology – cameras, recordable devices, IPads, Laptop, bee-bots. |
| Expressive Arts and Design | Introduce story narrative into their play, compose music with the instruments, create minibeast inspired art work – Eric Carle and models. |
Reading Books – we will continue to hear the children read regularly in their guided reading sessions. Please continue to hear your children read regularly at home including their sound and tricky word book. Please make sure the children have their reading book, diary, sound and tricky word books in school every day in the home folder.
PE Days – Tuesday and Friday – please ensure children now have PE shorts to wear and that their trainers are still fitting them!
Snack – all children need to bring a healthy snack to eat during morning break time. Please make sure snacks are raw or dried fruit or vegetables ONLY – no crackers, cheese strings or fruit winders as snacks should be as natural as possible. They will have the Government funded snack during the afternoon.
Weather – now that we are getting warmer weather please could all the children bring in plain water in a named bottle, sun hat and sun cream applied at home before school (when necessary).
Labelling – please continue to make sure all clothes are clearly labelled with your child’s name. Please also relabel if you have hand-me-downs from other families!
Forest School – we will continue to visit the wood every other Friday this term. It will be a privilege to watch how the wood changes from the Spring into Summer and play in the magical cow parsley that often grows taller than the children! Our dates are:
Friday 2nd May, 16th May, 6th June, 20th June, 4th July and 18th July.
Please let us know if you are able to help on any of these dates.
We hope to invite parents and younger siblings to one of our later sessions at the forest for a picnic. More details nearer the time!
Please do continue do use Tapestry to follow your child’s learning journey but all messages and queries must go via the school office please. Remember, the children love to share their Tapestry news and photos with the class from the big screen.
Useful Dates:
Forest School – Friday 2nd May, 16th May, 6th June, 20th June, 4th July and 18th July.
20th May – Sports Day am
2nd June – INSET Day
30th June – Tray Day
9th July – am EYFS and KS1 Athletics at JFAN
14th July – Class Swap – children visit new teacher and classroom during the morning.
22nd July – end of term
Best wishes to you all and looking forward to seeing you all soon.
Alison Course and Wendy Berrett
