Reception
Staff members
Miss G. Medgyesy (Class Teacher); Mrs N Ibrahim; Miss L Thurston; Mrs M Maoloud (Nursery and Reception) and Mrs Choudhury.
On this page, you will find information about our class learning, which is updated weekly. We will occasionally share links to online resources that can be used to support learning at home. It is important that children are supervised when using these suggested links.
Our Class Saint
Saint Joseph
This year in Reception we have chosen St. Joseph as our Class Saint. We chose this Saint as we feel that St. Joseph is an important figure in the Holy Family and follows our previous learning around St Mary. We will celebrate St. Joseph this year throughout our time in school and we will also celebrate his feast day on the 21st March. We look forward to sharing the learning around this special saint and his Earthly, Fatherly figure to ourselves and to Jesus.
Feast Day: This will be celebrated in school on Friday 21st March.
Reminders and Expectations
- Please read every day with your child at home for around 10 minutes and an adult to sign their reading diaries. READING EVERY DAY WILL HAVE THE MOST IMPACT! Children hand in their reading diaries every morning to be checked. We will listen to your child read throughout the week.
- Children will have a homework book, given out on a Wednesday and this will be returned on a Monday.
- PE Kits: On a Tuesday, children should arrive at school in their full school uniform and will get changed into their PE kits. Please make sure children have everything they need, and all items are clearly labelled with your child's name to ensure no items get lost.
Please continue to scroll down after this phonics information to find weekly updates on what your children will be learning in the curriculum.
Below is some useful information and activities.
Phoneme– The sound of a letter. For example /k/.
Grapheme– The way we write the phoneme (sound). For example, /k/ can be written as c k ck qu ch.
Digraphs– Two graphemes that make one phoneme (sound).
Trigraphs– Three graphemes that make one phoneme (sound).
Please find below phonics pronunciation videos to support at home. This will tell you how to pronounce each sound.
Phase 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtjFIvA_fs
Phase 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOuc7cWXxc
Active learn log in link 
We have forest school this half-term on Monday 2nd June and Monday 9th June.
Week commencing 02.06.2025
This week we will be learning about the four seasons. This gives us a chance to recap the seasons, Autumn, Winter and Spring. We will look closely at the changes that will happen in Summer. We will read lots of books around summer which include:
Phonics
We have learnt all our phase 2 and 3 sounds. We are spending time recapping sounds learnt and using our knowledge to write sentences to become independent writers.
The sounds we will be looking at this week are: 'ear', 'air', 'ure' and 'ur'.
It is important that children know and recognise all sounds, so please spend time at home recapping sounds and reading lots. Accessing the bug club website will support your child in their learning and new books and games are put on weekly.
Some useful videos are:
https://youtu.be/-ZtjFIvA_fs?si=EwfubJv-5avHJStO
https://youtu.be/DvOuc7cWXxc?si=WhFntQ7gUuPiWpWm
Maths
In maths, we are continuing our unit 'Numerical Pattern'. We will be focusing on the skill of 'Halving' and 'Sharing' this week.
You can support your child by practising sharing skills at home. Can you share the fruit between two people?