Reception

We would like to introduce you to our Reception Staff

Mrs Zett - Classteacher

Miss Humphrey - Special Educational Support Assistant

Welcome to your child’s Reception year at St. George & St. Martin’s Catholic Academy.

Our topic this term is ‘Step into a Story’, which will be taught through the areas of learning: Religious Education, Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.

In RE, we will be learning about Christmas, People Who Help Us, Lent and Holy Week.

Here are just some of the many activities that the children will be involved in during the next term:

Learning new rhymes and poems
Seasonal changes in winter
Explore the festival of Chinese New Year
Make pancakes
The Three Little Pigs- Houses and homes- Explore the materials used to make a strong house. Discuss houses and homes from around the world and explore the similarities and differences
Jack & the Beanstalk– planting
Seasonal changes in Spring
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences and connect ideas using connectives. Describe events in some detail
Use picture clues to help read a simple text
Predict and anticipate key events based on illustrations, story content and title
Orally compose a sentence and hold it in memory before attempting to write it
Read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences
Composition of 5
Comparing amounts
Subitising
Representing quantities to 10
Create collaboratively sharing ideas, resources, and skills
Create a bridge for the Billy Goats Gruff
Design and make gingerbread men using different materials. Eg collage, puffy paint and chalks
Fork printing bear craft
Chinese New Year crafts– dragons, lamps
Seasonal/ celebration themed rhymes and songs
Spring crafts

We will also be reading lots of stories by our class author Roger Hargreaves, as well as lots of stories, poems and non-fiction books.