1. Summer Term Newsletter
Reception
Summer Term Newsletter
Important Information
Important Dates
We are hoping our school pool will be ready for us to start swimming week beginning Tuesday 9th May.
To enable these sessions to take place, we rely on support from parents. If you hold a valid DBS check and are available to
help Reception
swim on a Monday
afternoon from 1.30pm
then please let
Miss Diplock know.
PE sessions in hall: Tuesday mornings with Mrs Deacon
Swimming starts: Monday 9th May (afternoons)
Animal Fair
Targets
Children will soon be receiving new ‘busy bee’ targets for maths and literacy to practise during choosing time. These targets will be kept in their drawers and will be based on each individual child’s next step towards mastering the Early Learning Goal.
Early Learning Goals
Information detailing the Early Learning Goals for each area of learning can be found here:
If you have any questions about the Early Learning Goals, please do not hesitate to ask. PE
Mrs Deacon will be taking Reception for PE on a Tuesday morning during my release time from the classroom.
Please ensure children’s earrings have been removed on Mondays and Tuesdays ready for PE/swimming.
As the weather is
improving, we may go
outside for some of our PE sessions. Please make sure your child has a suitable pair of trainers/plimsolls in their PE bag in preparation for Sports Day.
Look out for a ‘swimming letter’ to follow.
2016

2. What we will be learning
Welcome to Reception 
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
The class will continue to practise paying cooperatively together and should show confidence in demonstrating the ability to negotiate and solve problems that arise during play. Our SEAL topics during the Summer term are ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changes’. Talking about changes will promote discussion about how the children have developed during the Reception year and helping to prepare them for the transition into Year 1.
Communication & Language
Children should demonstrate an inquisitive nature and ask ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions in response to stories and experiences. They should use past, present and future forms accurately when talking and develop their own narratives during play.
Our topics this term will cover Growing, Minibeasts and Animal Fair and will span the entire Summer Term. We will be focussing heavily on developing and mastering the early learning goals which the government expects children to achieve by the end of the Reception year.
During the first half of the term, children will continue to develop their personal, social and emotional development through stories focussed on minibeasts. They will form a greater understanding of the world around them by planting seeds, observing a life cycle of a frog and noticing changes over time. They will hunt for minibeasts outside and talk about similarities and differences between bugs.
The second half of the Summer Term will focus around animals you would find in a zoo.
I I am a busy bee!
Physical Development
Children will take part in some traditional dancing around the Maypole which is great for developing coordination and rhythm. They will also begin swimming lessons in the school pool. They should continue to develop their understanding of the importance of good health, physical exercise, a healthy diet and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
Literacy
The children will continue to develop a bank of letter sounds, decodable words and tricky words. They will extend their knowledge of reading strategies and begin to pick up on other cues to help them decode unknown words. They should demonstrate more understanding when talking to others about what they have read. Children will be encourage to write for a range of different purposes to enable them to demonstrate their ability to write in a variety of contexts.
Maths
There will be a big focus on developing the ability to count reliably using numbers Children will continue to practise adding and subtracting two single-digit numbers and counting on or back to find the answer. They will also practise solving problems such as doubling, halving and sharing. Other topics of learning will include language related to size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money.
Understanding the World
Children will make observations of plants and life cycles and comment on changes over time. They will be encouraged to use technology for a range of different purposes.
Expressive Arts & Design
The class will be encouraged to sing songs, make music and dance. They will be encouraged to use a range of media and materials when following their interests in the art and craft area. Children should represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through a wide range of areas of learning.