We have had another wonderful week of learning and play! The children have come back at the start of Term 6 full of fun and positivity. It is going to be a great final term in Reception!

Love to learn challenge: May Half Term

Our next topic will be ‘Dinosaurs’. We would like you to create something, either a piece of art, fact sheet or a model of a dinosaur. During our next topic, we will learn all about dinosaurs; the food they ate, where they lived, names of the different dinosaurs etc.

Please return your Love to Learn work by Wednesday 10^th June.  Your child will then be able to share their work with their friends in class.

Art Competition Opportunity

The Kent Arts Conference is hosting the following art competition for schools:

Competition Topic: Everyone’s Talking About This

Please follow the below links for further information and to submit your artwork.

Art Competition Information - Schools Art Competition 2026 - Kent Arts Conference

Entry Form - Art Competition Entry Form - Kent Arts Conference

 

 

RWI

It has been wonderful to see how engaged and enthusiastic the children are about their learning! The end goal for our Reception class is to help them become speedy readers, and we are making fantastic progress. A key aspect of this journey involves the strategy of ‘Fred Talking’. This technique allows children to sound out unfamiliar words, breaking them down into smaller, manageable parts.

As children become more confident and start recognising words, we encourage them to transition to 'Fred in your head', which is a silent way of using Fred Talking in their minds. This stage acts as a bridge to achieving fluent reading, enabling them to read more swiftly and with greater comprehension.

We kindly ask for your continued support at home by encouraging your child to read daily. Sharing stories or playing with words at home not only reinforces what they learn in school but also fosters a love of reading that will benefit them throughout their education.

Maths

This week, we have been learning to compare quantities up to 10 using the vocabulary: ‘more than’, ‘greater than’, ‘less than’, ‘fewer’, ‘the same as’, ‘equal to’. We have been doing this using different classroom resources. We have also been using our estimating skills to say how many objects we think there are e.g. how many sweets in a jar. We got so good at this by the end of the week!

Next week we will be learning our number bonds. By the end of the year, we should know all number bonds for the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (e.g. the number bonds for 5 are 0+5, 1+4, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1 and 5+0). We should also know some of the number bonds for numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

PSHE

This week, the whole school have been completing PSHE activities in afternoon lessons focusing on healthy relationships. In Reception, we have been learning about kind and unkind words and the impact these can have on others. As part of this learning we discussed, explored and performed the following poem:

“The Tiny Scratch” Author anon

A scratch upon your knee may heal,

A bump can go away,

But mean words sometimes leave a mark

That stays the whole long day.

So think before you speak aloud,

Be gentle, kind, and true,

Because the words you say to friends

Can stick like glue.

Next week, we will be developing our science skills. We will be exploring and using magnets, pipettes, and exploring what happens when we put celery in water which has food colouring in.

We will also start our new topic: Dinosaurs! We will find ways to release dinosaurs trapped in ice and learn about fossils and palaeontologists.

Important messages

- Please ensure your child comes to school ready for the weather. As it begins to warm up, we will need sunhats and suncream (named and in bags).

-Please ensure your child comes to school with a water bottle.

-All clothing should have your child's name.

- Reading record books are changed every Tuesday and Friday, please sign the record and put them in the basket to be changed. 

Important dates

17th – 24th June – Book Fair 

18th June 2.45– Reception class assembly 

19th June – Zoe Artemedis (local Author) visiting school 

24th June – Class photos 

25th June – Reception Come Dine with me picnic 

26th June – Non-school uniform day for all in return for Summer Fair donations (see Summer fair letter that will come out early term 6 for details) 

30th June – Music evening at 6pm 

3rd July – Summer Fair 3.15-5.15 

9th July – Reception, year 1 and year 2 Sports day from 9.15 on top field 

10th July – School reports sent home 

13th, 14th, 15th July– Transition days (children will spend these days with their new class teacher) 

14th July 2.45pm – Parents invited into child’s new class to meet their teacher 

 

Many thanks for your continued support.

From the Reception Team