Whiteley Reception

  Friday 9th October This week at school, we have been continuing to expand our repertoire of nursery rhymes by learning and singing 'The Grand Old Duke of York'. We have spent time talking about our favourite books this week and sharing books with your children. We have introduced them to book language such as front cover, back cover, author, illustrator and blurb. It is really important to explore the whole book when sharing a book with your child. Phonics This week in phonics we have been playing 'I spy' thinking carefully about the first sound you can hear in a word e.g. 'd' for dog, 's' for spade etc  We have also been segmenting and blending CVC words e.g. 'h-a-t' ='hat', 'l-o-g'='log' etc. Maths This week in Maths, we have explored the concept of 'more' and 'fewer' to describe how many objects are in a set or group.   We have considered what is the same and what is different by varying attributes suc...

  Friday 2nd October This week the children have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'.  We are encouraging the children to join in with the words and actions. We have been practising building a stable wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on. We talked about overlapping the bricks so the wall does not fall over. Maths This week the children have been learning about how numbers can be made in different ways.   We have been exploring how 3 and 4 can be split into smaller parts and put back together in different ways  e.g. "3 is made of 1 and 2.  1 and 2 make 3" You could practise at home by asking your child: "If I have 3, how many more do I need to make 4?" In Phonics this week we have continued to play a variety of games.  These games have been played to help develop listening skills. For example: listening for words that begin with the same sound, listening for rhyming words in stories, identifying sounds and naming the odd sound out, and playing I-...

 Friday 23rd September This week, we have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.  We are encouraging the children to join in with the actions. We have been working on the children's use of scissors.  Lots of children have found this very challenging.  Please see the correct way to hold a scissors below. Right handed scissors hold. Left handed scissor hold. You may like to give your child opportunities to use scissors at home.  Perhaps they could help you by snipping the tops of green beans when you are cooking.  They could practise snipping the tops off paper tubes to make models. At school, we use scissors like the ones below.  If you don't have any scissors, please let us know. Maths This week in Maths, we have been encouraging the children to count objects by using 1:1 correspondence by counting numbers at the same time as moving or touching the objects. Phonics This week we have been focussing on listening to the initial soun...

  Friday 18th September We have been learning and performing the nursery rhymes "Incy Wincy Spider" and "Little Miss Muffet". Over the next few weeks, we will be learning lots of different nursery rhymes and on Tuesday 20th October, we will be having a nursery rhyme dress up day and sponsored nursery rhyme singing event at school.  Further details will follow nearer the time. An Introduction to Phase 1 Phonics At Whiteley Primary School in Phonics, we first focus on Phase One which is all about the children tuning into sounds around them, listening and getting ready to develop oral blending and segmenting skills.   Phase One concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase Two.    This week we have been concentrating on awareness of sounds that we can hear around us in the environment. We have also thought about the sounds we can hear in words eg, pot  p-o-t Maths In ...

 Friday 12th September Welcome to our first blog post of this new school year! We are enjoying getting to know your children and we are pleased with how they are settling into their classes. Pictured below is our outdoor woodland area situated behind the Year R classrooms. Your child will be spending time each week in our woodland area. We would just like to recap what your child needs to bring to school. They should bring a named, non spillable water bottle to school each day (filled with water please). On Sunny days you might like to send a named sun hat with your child.  Please apply sun cream at home in the morning and do not send it to school. Please can you put a change of clothes in your child's book bag as they may well get wet in the water tray or have an accident.  A change of clothes may include plain leggings or jogging bottoms, pants, socks and a plain t-shirt. P.E. Kit We keep your child's P.E. kit in the classroom for the whole half term.  The P.E. b...