Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads C.E. Primary School

Welcome to Reception

We have two Reception Classes in our Early Years Foundation Stage Unit. Our teachers are Miss Lougheed and Miss Jackson. We have Mrs Heath, Mrs Thompson and Mrs Peacock to help us learn too.

We hope you have had a lovely half term and are ready for lots of fun and learning. 

Autumn term 2

Maths 

This term we will be playing lots of number games in our play to help us with our counting and numeral recognition. We will have a maths focused activity every day and will be using numicons and pegs to help with our learning. We will be recording lengths of objects and looking at their size and shape. We will also be ordering numbers and looking at their quantity. We are beginning to look at 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. 

Phonics

In our phonics sessions we will playing lots of fun activities to help us learn different sounds. We will be building on this knowledge to help us segment and blend words to read and write. We are using jolly phonics to sing and dance sounds to help us remember. You can listen to these sounds on YouTube at home.  

 Literacy

We will be learning how to write  simple words this term using our phonics knowledge. To help us with our writing we are taking part in weekly handwriting sessions. In our literacy sessions we will be looking at lots of different stories and talking about the different characters, settings and events in the story. We will have the chance to act these stories out in our play and write about the different characters.

 Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday we will change your children's reading books! 

We are very passionate about reading at Holy Trinity Primary school and want the children to develop a love for reading. To help us facilitate this every day we will have two books for the children to choose from. Also every week we will be going up to the forest and our learning will be focused around a book.

A big thank you to all Nursery and Reception parents for coming to our Christmas crafts day. We loved making snowmen, baubles and snowflakes with you. 

Thank you for coming  to our stay and play day we had lots of fun sharing our learning with you.

We have enjoyed dressing up this week and we have been talking about what we want to be  when we grow up.

 Talking Tip 
Talk to your child about the changing seasons and discuss what happens in Autumn.