Welcome to Reception!
Willow Class
Teacher - Miss Batchelor

Teaching Assistant - Ms Stannard
Teaching Assistant - Ms Atif
Teaching Assistant - Ms Duijker
Chestnut Class
Teacher - Miss Loades

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Vohra
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Patel
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Nikolaeva
Reminders
Please check Classdojo
Please do not put your child's drinks bottle in their bag as it sometimes leaks.
PE
Please ensure your child comes to school dressed in their PE kit every Monday. PE will begin on Monday 29th September.
Children should be dressed in either the Scotts tracksuit or shorts and t-shirt, depending on the weather.
Book Bags and Reading Books
Your child will receive a book weekly. Please look at the back page to see what your child should be working on. This will include a decoding session, a prosody session and a comprehension session. Please sign your child's reading record 5 times a week.
Homework
Your child will be given homework every Friday. Please support your child in completing this homework to help them consolidate their phonics learning. Homework is due in the following Friday. However, your child can return their homework as soon as it is completed.
Uniform
Please can you ensure that you label your child’s clothing, this includes their shoes. All children should come to school with a green book bag.
Special Person
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On a Friday, one child in class will be chosen as our special person. When it is your child’s turn, they will come home with a note to say they are the special person. Please collect five special things that are important to your child and discuss why they are special to them. It could be a teddy they have had since they were a baby, a certificate that they have been awarded or a photo of a family party. Once you have discussed them, please take a photograph and upload it to Class Dojo by the following Thursday, to enable the child to talk about why these items are special to them.
Termly curriculum overview

In literacy, we will be learning about the Christmas story.
We will read the Nativity together and talk about what happens in the story. The children will share what they think is special about Christmas, and we will explore the different features of a Church in a simple, child-friendly way.
Information for parents can be found on Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. Please click on the link below.
We will learn the sounds:
We will consolidate all the phase 2 sounds.
We will read words such as quick, ship, ring, sink, chop, buzz, cliff.
Tricky Words: I the is a to go no so she he has of.
Our Topic is 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt.'

In maths we will:
- Consolidate numbers that make 5 and show this in different ways.
Our Learning:
Autumn 1
Autumn 2



