Reception – Apple and Lime
Nov 08 2024
Welcome back Apple and Lime Class! At the beginning of this half term we will be learning about traditional tales. This week we focused on the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and looked at different versions to make comparisons. We also retold the story using story maps and thought about what the characters might say …
Oct 25 2024
Well done to Reception for completing their first half term at Alban City School! In Phonics this week we have had a big focus on reviewing all the phase 2 sounds that we have learnt so far. We have practised the skills for segmenting and blending when reading and writing. We have also been focusing …
Oct 18 2024
This week we spent time thinking about the people in school and how the adults help us in different ways such as keeping us safe, teaching us, cooking our lunches, fixing the school etc. We then spent time thinking about questions and why these are important. The children came up with some great questions to …
Oct 11 2024
In Maths this week the children have continued to develop their subitising skills to identify how many of something there is without counting. The children then practised showing how many using their fingers. We have also practised use of ‘perceptual’ subitising – instant recognition – by saying the number of sounds that they can hear, …
Oct 04 2024
In Maths the children have been exploring the composition of numbers e.g. seeing that 3 can be composed of 1 and 2, 2 can be composed of 1 and 1. Through practical experiences the children could see a ‘whole’ is made up of smaller parts and is, therefore, bigger than its parts. In Maths we …
Sep 27 2024
In Phonics we have taught the sounds ck, e, u and r. We have continued to segment and blend words for reading and writing. We have also enjoyed thinking of words that start with these initial sounds. The ‘harder to read and spell words’ this week were ‘into’ and ‘go’. We were practising to use …
Sep 20 2024
This week in Reception we have started our Maths lessons. We have encouraged the children to quantify sets of objects by subitising, rather than counting. When subitising, children can say how many there are in a small group of objects by ‘just seeing’ and knowing straightaway without needing to count. We have focused on random …
Sep 13 2024
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 06 2024
We just wanted to welcome all of our Reception children and their families to Alban City School. All the children have settled in and have started to learn the school routine. Thank you to all parents for helping to make this such a smooth transition for the children. Each Friday we will upload a Reception …
