Reception Curriculum Overview Spring
Welcome to Reception
We are very excited to welcome you all to the start of your school life at St Augustine’s! This year is going to be filled with fun, lots of learning and new experiences.
The Reception Teachers are Mrs Towle and Mrs Jordan; and they are supported by our highly experienced Teaching Assistants, Mrs Beaven and Mrs Shorbagy.
Here you will find all the information you need about what we will be doing in Reception this term and throughout the academic year.
Remember, it is really important to be at school every day, on time and ready to learn.
PE/Forest School:
Our PE/Forest School day is a Friday. Children should come to school dressed in their PE kit.
Reading at home:
Please read with your child each evening. This could be supporting them to read their Rhino Readers reading book; or sharing with them their school library book or a chosen book from home.
Week Commencing 31st March 2025
Maths: Next week, we will be continuing with our unit, 'Building 9 and 10'. We will be exploring number bonds to 10 further, learning that there can be 3 or more parts, not just 2. We will be finding doubles to 10 and then moving on to making our own sets and arrangements of doubles. We will also be investigating odd and even numbers by looking at equal and unequal groups.
English: Next week will be our final week of work on 'The Three Little Pigs' - 'invention' week! Following on from our new class version of the story, the children will be encouraged to think of their very own version, changing the characters and the materials. We will create a new story map and then try to write the new story, using our phonic knowledge to identify the sounds in words and writing the letter/s for that sound.
Phonics: In phonics, we will be revising the phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs, blending words to read and segmenting words to spell. We will be practising spelling the phase 2 tricky words and reading the phase 3 tricky words.
RE: In our final week of learning before Holy Week, we will be remembering what happens during the season of Lent. We will look at symbols connected to Lent and talk about how each of the symbols reminds us of the things that happen during Lent, or the things we should be trying to do during Lent. We will also be looking closely at the Jubilee Icon painting and producing our own collaborative piece of artwork.
Week Commencing 24th March 2025
Maths: In maths, we will be carrying on with our work on the unit, 'Building 9 and 10'. We will be focusing on the composition of numbers to 10, playing games to explore how a greater number is a 'whole' and is made of smaller numbers or 'parts'. We will also be learning about number bonds to 10 using real objects, building 10 using 2 parts (e.g., 6 trains and 4 cars make 10). Finally, we will exploring how the number 10 can be arranged in different ways, but that the total number stays the same.
English: Next week will be our second week focussing on the traditional tale, 'The Three Little Pigs'. It will be 'innovation' week, and together as a class we will be changing one part of the story - the materials that the little pigs use to build their houses. After collecting ideas, we will draw a new story map to represent these changes and then we will try to write sentences or captions to accompany the maps.
Phonics: In phonics next week, we will be recapping phase 3 with a focus on the vowel digraphs and trigraphs and phase 3 tricky words. We will be participating in lots of games and activities to help us with our blending and segmenting skills and with our recognition of the graphemes.
RE: In RE, we will be continuing our learning about Lent, with a focus on saying sorry and forgiveness. We will talk about why we say 'sorry' and share our own experiences of saying sorry. We will be thinking about the term 'forgiveness' - listening to and accepting someone saying 'sorry', for something they have done which has been hurtful or unkind. We will then create 'paper people', one representing us, the other someone that we have said sorry to.
At Saint Augustine’s Primary School, our school rules are simple yet powerful: Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe, and Be the Best You Can Be.
These school rules guide us in everything we do, helping us create a positive, caring, and inspiring learning environment.
Being ready means coming prepared to learn and try our best every day.
Being respectful reminds us to treat others with kindness and value everyone's contributions.
Being safe ensures that we look after ourselves and others, both inside and outside the classroom.
And striving to be the best we can be encourages us to aim high, work hard, and take pride in our achievements.
Together, these rules help us to grow into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals.