Reception Newsletter 08/08/2025

Autumn Term—What Makes Our World Work?
Week Beginning: 8th September 2025
 
Dear Parents and Carers,
 
We are so proud of all of our Reception learners for settling in so well during their first days in Reception. We’ve had a great start getting to know your children and lots of fun exploring the classroom, outdoors and all the resources. The children are learning the routines of the day, expectations and the adults and children in their class. Please make sure all items of clothing, water bottles and wellies are labelled.

Over the next few weeks we will be…
· Talking about who is in our family and lives in our house.
· Starting phonics sessions and playing phonics games together.
· Practising counting sets of objects with 1:1 correspondence and careful counting.
· Subitising numbers to 5 (looking at a small set of objects and knowing how many are there without counting them).
· Continuing to explore the resources and areas of the classroom.

Reading books
Reading books will be changed, where necessary, on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We do ask that you either write a comment or simply sign the reading record to let us know when a book is completed and therefore ready to be changed. You’ll also notice a login for your child for BugClub at the very front of your child’s reading record.  Phonic books will be allocated each week for your child to read on an ipad/computer.  This book will link with the phonics taught in class.
 
Tapestry                                                                                      
You should now all (hopefully) be set up on Tapestry. This is a great resource that we use regularly to share photos and communicate information on.
We also encourage you to share any photos or news on there that we can then share with the class. The children always love sharing and talking about their Tapestry photos.
 
Phonics
Phonics is taught daily and is a key part of our curriculum. These sessions are fun and interactive. Phonics supports us to teach your child to read and write. Over this half term we will mix children from both classes into groups.
At school we follow the Letters and Sounds phonics scheme.
Please follow the link for a useful watch of the correct pronunciation of the phonemes (sounds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksblMiliA8 
 
Packed Lunches and Nut-based Products
As we have some children in school with nut allergies, please can we be mindful of not including nut-based products in packed lunches.
 
Please do not hesitate to speak/email a member of staff if you have any questions.
Thank you so much,
​
The Reception Team

Key Dates for your diary

Tuesday 23rd September
Flu vaccinations for children 
Wednesday 1st October
School photographs (individual and family groups)
Thursday 23rd October
PA disco (further information to follow from the PA)

Monday 27th October – Friday 31st October
Half Term
Monday 3rd November
Inset day – children are not in school
Tuesday 4th November
Children return to school