Reception 2024-2025

Above you will find our special Maths page!

You can see the rest of our wonderful learning each half term below:

Autumn A

We are settling into Reception life, making new friends and learning the ropes. We have been exploring our new environment inside and out! Our theme this half term is 'Super Duper You' so we have explored who we are, our family and our homes. We enjoyed our first forest school session making ourselves from clay and building shelters to represent our homes. We ended the half term planting some 'magic seeds' which grew into our very own pumpkin picking patch! 

Autumn B

'Fantastic Festivals' is our theme this half term and we have so much to celebrate. We are focusing on light as a celebration starting with bonfire night and fireworks. Diwali is the festival of light and we enjoyed traditional Diwali celebrations. We took part in a remembrance day assembly including some special visitors. Loy Krathong is a celebration using lanterns and candles and of course who can forget Christmas! We have embraced the colder weather and seasonal changes using our outdoor space to explore and test our gross motor skills. We enjoyed maths week, anti bullying week and road safety week! Phew......what a packed half term.

Spring A

This half term we enter our 'Happily Ever After' focus and explore traditional tales with moral themes. A crime scene started our half term and we linked the evidence to Little Red Riding Hood, exploring the characters and their actions. We got to work investigating the events of the story in our own police station. In Forest school we learnt about wolves in the wild and the difference between real wolves and story book wolves who seem to get a bad name. We celebrated Lunar New Year with a special Chinese dancing workshop and the traditional Chinese tale of The Magic Paintbrush, which taught us to be humble and kind. Number day saw us take part in a maths week full of revisiting of maths learning. We ended on a bouncy note with our valentines bouncy castle disco! 

Spring B

Spring B is all about 'How does your garden grow' as we take the opportunity to observe the natural world around us. We have been busy outdoors developing our gross motor skills, observing changes in weather as the seasons progress and focusing on growing and adapting in nature. We have grown our own cress and carrot tops, learnt about life cycles and enjoyed a trip to the National Forest Adventure Farm to feed lambs and understand the importance of animals in our world. We have been busy exploring the creatures who live in our gardens with a focus on creepy, crawly mini beasts. 

Summer A

This half term is a short one but that won't stop us from cramming in lots of learning. Our focus is 'No Place Like Home', and we have ventured beyond our country to explore different places and climates. We travelled to the polar regions to explore the weather, animals, and what life would be like in the cold. We compared the cold habitats with the heat of the jungle and even ventured beyond our planet into space! We built vehicles to travel through different terrains, experimented with art from around the world, and enjoyed building jungle shelters in forest school. 

Summer B

Summer term brings the sunshine, which means we spend more time outdoors...something we all love! We have been working on our motor skills in many ways, bikes, climbing, building, and constructing! We practised for our sports day in PE and all demonstrated amazing sportsmanship. Our focus on 'The Land Before Time' saw us travel back millions of years to learn about dinosaurs. We have enjoyed looking at toys of the past and how our school looked 70 years ago! We looked back at our timeline, comparing changes from when we were babies to now. Our last part of Reception involved us travelling to the future with transition into Year 1 and sharing our hopes and dreams.  Our parents joined us for a summer Stay & Play too!