Reception
Miss Simpkin-Teacher/Keyworker
Miss Oxley-LSA
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time - 3:15pm
Welcome to Reception!
Summer 2, 2025
We are so excited to learn lots of new things this year and work together to support each child’s learning journey. If we can do anything to help or answer any queries, please contact us at foundationstage@cpa.dsat.education
Reception Long Term Plan 24-25
Our theme this half term is ' Summer'
This half term we will be using our core stories to develop our use and understanding of new vocabulary words.
Core Texts:
Our 2 stories to focus for this half term are 'Rainbow Fish' & 'Tiddler'. We will be learning new vocabulary within both of these stories.
Literacy & Phonics
The children will take part in daily RWI lessons learning segment and blend. Children should read their phonics reading book at least 3 times per week and this should be logged in their reading record. Children also have their library book to promote reading for pleasure.
Phonics-Meeting-for-Parents-September-2024
We will be applying our phonic knowledge to develop our writing skills through the Get Writing programme where we will be learning to write short sentences and phrases.
Maths
At Canon Popham, we follow maths mastery approach. This half term, we will be focusing on developing knowledge of numbers to 20 by looking closely at the composition of teen numbers. We will also be learning to develop patterns with 3 units of repeat and to consolidate our maths learning from this year.
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts- Autumn 1
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts-Autumn 2
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts-Spring 1
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts-Spring 2
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts-Summer 1
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts-Summer 2
Understanding the World
The Foundations Of:
RE – This half term we are using Understanding Christianity to explore what makes places special? We will be looking at buildings such as churches, synagogues and houses. We will be visiting our local church to find all of the key parts.
History– Why do we wear different clothes at different times of the year?
Geography- What might we discover on the beach?
Science- Which hat is best to wear today?
Computing- Programming bee bots- developing our understanding of arrows to create a simple algorithm
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
The Foundations Of:
PSHE– The Fiver Challenge
We will be spending this half term learning about enterprise and creating our class product or service to sell at the Summer Fair. We have decided to have a bake sale and will be spending our £5 on ingredients. Our shop name is 'Reception Bakes Cakes'
We are a myHappy mind school- we will be introducing to the myHappy mind characters who will help us learn throughout the year. At the end of every myHappy mind session, we finish with our Let Your Light Shine prayer which you can find below.
Expressive Arts and Design-
The Foundations Of:
Music- Charanga- Our World!
D&T- Textiles- Bookmarks
Physical Development
PE- Our PE lesson will take place every Tuesday, children should come to school every Tuesday with a named PE kit in their bag.
We will also be using our outdoor area to develop our gross motor skills. The children love to practice their running, moving, climbing and throwing skills and have access to our outdoor area every day to practice these.
Tapestry
We love see the things our children have been learning at home from your observations! A Tapestry challenge will be sent out each week on a Friday and you will have the rest of the week to complete this. If you need any support using your Tapestry account to get the most out of this wonderful platform, please ask a member of staff or use the tutorials below to help.
Information from parents meetings- feel free to drop us an email if you have any questions!
Tapestry parents information presentation
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us or give us a call!
Thank you for your support,
Miss Simpkin & Miss Oxley