Reception – Apple and Lime
Sep 19 2025
This week in Reception we have continued to have a big focus on learning the school rules and routines, including making good learning choices in the indoor and outdoor environments. In topic this week we have been thinking about our families and discussing how all families are different. All of the Reception team have shown …
Sep 12 2025
What a lovely first full week it has been for Reception! The children have been super excited and eager to explore their new classrooms. We have played lots of games, spoken about how we feel starting school and even started our phonics lessons. The phonics sounds we have learnt so far are s, a. t, …
Jul 11 2025
This week in Phonics we have spent time recapping our newest phase 5 sounds. We have been identifying these within words before segmenting and blending for reading. We have also continued with our simple sentence writing. Each day we gave the class a picture and then they each thought of a sentence they wanted to …
Jul 04 2025
This week we have started our new topic all about ‘growing’. We read the story ‘The tiny seed’ to support our understanding of the life cycle of plants. We then had a go at retelling the story through our own story maps. We then researched and discussed how to care for plants and what plants …
Jun 27 2025
In Phonics this week we have been very busy learning some new sounds. We have introduced the children to ‘au’, ‘ey’ and two split digraphs ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’. A split digraph is a digraph where the two letters are not adjacent and are split apart by a consonant. The children became excellent detectives and were able …
Jun 13 2025
In maths we have been developing the children’s automatic recall of number bonds to 5 and 10. We have sung the song ‘5 little speckled frogs’ and used both hands to represent the frogs on the log and in the pond. We then moved onto representing number bonds using die frames and 2 coloured counters. …
Jun 06 2025
This week the children have been very excited to start our new topic all about minibeasts. We have focused on the storybook ‘Yucky worms’ and we have learnt so many new facts about worms! The children were extremely inquisitive about this topic and asked lots of wonderful questions. The children then started to write their …
May 23 2025
Sports day on Friday was a big success, the children seemed to really enjoy taking part in all of the different sports activities. A huge thank you to the parents volunteers that walked with us to and from the field. In Phonics this week we have continued with our focus on reading and writing CVCC …
May 16 2025
This week in maths we have looked at the composition of the numbers 6 to 9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then began to explore how 10 can be composed. We explored the different ways of making 10 (number bonds) by using double die frames and coloured counters. In phonics we have …
May 09 2025
This week in our topic lessons we have been reading and focusing on the story ‘Rocket Mole’. This story created lots of discussions around how we know so much about space and where humans have visited in space already. When reading this story the children had the challenge of thinking of a new way to …
