Reception
Miss Simpkin-Teacher/Keyworker
Miss Oxley-LSA
Start time – 8:40am Pick-up time - 3:15pm
Welcome to Reception!
Autumn 1, 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
Click the link below to find out what we will be learning through the year:
Reception Long Term Plan-25-26
Our theme this half term is ' Autumn'
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 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and 'Goldilocks and the 3 Bears'. We will be learning new vocabulary within both of these stories.
Literacy & Phonics
The children will take part in daily RWI lessons to identify set 1 sounds and learn to orally blend and segment. Children will be given a phonics key ring including the sounds they have been taught and weekly speed sound formation sheets. Please send your child to school with a book bag so that they can keep these items safe.
Thank you for coming to our Reception and Early Reading meeting- the presentation is attached below. Any questions, please ask!
Maths
At Canon Popham, we follow maths mastery approach. This half term, we will be completing baseline assessments, matching sorting and comparing early numbers and exploring measure and pattern.
These are the key facts taught throughout Autumn 1 to practise with your child at home:
Reception Key Instant Recall Facts- Autumn 1
Understanding the World
The Foundations Of:
RE – This half term we are using Understanding Christianity to explore what makes people special? We will be looking closely and friends, family and Jesus.
History– We will be exploring how we have changed over time through the stages of growth by answering the question- what toys did I play with as a baby?
Geography- We will be looking closely at our local environment, using fieldwork to find out where we go to school. We will learn to name, locate and recognise features and places within our school setting.
Science- We will be learning all about our body, finding out about ourselves and what we are made of.
Computing- We will be using our Purple Mash scheme to explore programming robots.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
The Foundations Of:
PSHE– Health and Wellbeing
We will be learning about ourselves and how to take care of our bodies including oral health, sleep, exercise and food.
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- Chant to the animals! The children will be learning to understand that there are different ways to use our voice in music and that chants use the spoken voice rhythmically and musically.
Art- Drawing Skills- Mahi Abdul- Zentangles
Physical Development
PE- Get Set 4 PE- Introduction to PE, Unit 2.
Our PE lesson will take place every Wednesday, children should come to school every Wednesday wearing their PE kit.
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