Welcome To Reception

This page is for all our reception children in Ash and Oak class. We will use this page to share information with you and tell you about our topics and special events throughout the year.

Spring 1

Topic

Our farm-related topic will begin this half term, with Drawing Club sessions based on texts including ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ and ‘What the Ladybird Heard’. We will also be walking to our local Tesco shop to buy ingredients to make our very own bread, just like The Little Red Hen! 

Phonics

This half term we will be consolidating previous learning of Phase 3 sounds, before moving onto adding ‘s’ to words - wow!

GPC's being taught this half term - nk (sink) ai (train) ee (bee) igh (light) oa (boat) oo (spoon long) oo (book short) ar (star) or (torch) ur (turn)

Common Exception Words being taught this half term - was, my, by, her, you, they

PE Day

Our PE day is Thursday. Please can children wear their school uniform to school every Thursday - they will remain in PE kits all day.

This half term the children will be learning ball skills.

Welly Wednesdays

We take full advantage of our outdoor classroom, woods and fields around school, so please ensure children have their coats each day in case of poor weather. Children have access to waterproofs on a daily basis when in our outdoor area but please be mindful that sometimes clothes can get muddy!

Dojos

Each child has their own online Dojo Monster and the children are given Dojos points for actions such as working hard, being respectful, being a good friend and helping others.  Each time a child gets 20 dojo points, they can choose a prize from our prize box!

ClassDojo is also used for us to record observations of your child. These observations will be a small snapshot of your child's time with us and 'wow' moments, so that we can spend the majority of our time playing with and supporting the children in provision.

Please be mindful that messages via ClassDojo are not monitored so it is always best to contact your child's class teacher via email. 

EYFS Stay and Play sessions for parents/carers 

As part of our reception year, we have termly ‘stay and play’ sessions. This is the perfect opportunity for you to see what your child does at school, meet other parents and have an informal chat with our team.  Due to space we do limit this to one adult per child.  

Thursday 12th March 2026 - 2.15pm - 3pm.

EYFS Graduation (parents/guardians invited - 2 per child).

Monday 13th July 2026

Trips and Memorable Experiences 

Autumn 1

3.10.25 - PJ Day - children are invited to come into school wearing their PJs with a favourite book and teddy.  We will be having a day full of story-related fun activities.

Autumn 2

7.11.25 - Spooky Day - children are invited to come into school wearing a 'Spooky costume' for a day full of spooky-themed activities. 

17.11.25 - Walk around the local community - during this week we will be going on a 'transport hunt' around the local community.

Spring 1

Fortnight commencing 19th January - we will be going on group walks to the local Tesco to buy bread-making ingredients ready for us to bake bread.

Spring 2

23.2.26 - Dinosaur day - a day full of fun dinosaur-related activities 

Summer 1

Visit to Ellesmere Port library (dates tbc)

24.4.26 - Pirate Day - Dress Pirate themed

Summer 2

3.7.26 - Blue Planet Aquarium trip

Wider Learning Links

Alphablocks - a great programme for children to watch to support their phonics learning.

Numberblocks - a great programme for children to watch to support with number and shape skills.

www.cbeebies.co.uk  - Click on ‘games’ or ‘puzzles and games’ and scroll down to ‘sort games by’ and choose ‘learning area’ to choose the area of learning you would like your child to practise.  

Cbeebies also has lots of information and clips to support other areas of our EYFS curriculum, such as Understanding the World (Chinese New Year, Diwali, growing plants) and Health and Self-Care (healthy eating, exercise), Expressive Arts and Design (art ideas).  These are just a few of the topics that you can search for on this site.   There are some lovely stories in the Radio section too!

www.ictgames.co.uk - This website has many literacy and numeracy games.

If you have any queries or concerns, please feel free to chat to us or contact us via the below email addresses:

Ash class (Mrs Richards) - [email protected] 

Oak class (Miss Ellis) - [email protected]