Welcome to Reception! (2025-26)

We hope you have all had an enjoyable and restful half-term break!
Our topic this half-term is 'Seasons and Celebrations.' Throughout this topic we will be learning about the 4 seasons: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. We will be exploring the changes that happen during each season and sharing which one is our favourite! We will also be looking at different celebrations around the world, including Bonfire Night, Diwali, Christmas and many more!
We are looking forward to sharing our creative side through lots of different art and crafts activities, such as creating our own firework pictures and making our own Christmas decorations.
In Literacy, we will be listening to and looking at a range of stories and texts based around our topic. We will be continuing to practise our letter formations, and will begin to segment simple words. We will also be continuing to learn lots of new phonemes and high frequency words in our Phonics lessons.
In Maths, we will be playing lots of counting games and exploring numbers up to 5 in great detail. We will begin to learn some number bonds to 5 and will practise writing these as number sentences. We will learn the names of some 2D shapes and will use these to create our own shape pictures too!
Mrs Grindey, Mrs Orr and Miss Purslow
Key Information
PE day – Monday (Please send your child to school in their PE Kit for the day)
Book changing day – Wednesday
Books we will be reading this half-term...






