Blog Author: Alice Bartle

Phonics -

We are busy reviewing all Phase 3 sounds, including reading words with double digraphs (bigger, carrot). On our whiteboards, we are recalling digraphs to independently write words such as feel, hard, sort, down, join, coat, moon. 

Maths -

This week’s activities have had a…

Phonics -

Grapheme recap - ear, air, oi, er, ai.

Tricky word recap.

Whiteboard writing - hear, fair, coin, digger, rain.

Maths -

Our focus this week has been ordinality: considering where numbers to 10 are in relation to each other. Through practical activities and…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break! The children have settled back in beautifully, showing excellent learning behaviours as we head into our final term in Reception.

Phonics - 

Grapheme recap - oo (hook), ai, or, ur, ow.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky…

Thank you for joining us for our assembly on Monday, the children have worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks learning their lines, we hope you are as proud as we were!

Phonics -

Grapheme - recap of all phase 3 digraphs.

Tricky words - recap of all taught tricky…

The children were absolutely amazing during our trip to Knebworth. They should be very proud of themselves, we had a lovely day!

Phonics -

Graphemes - recap of oa, ar, ur, er.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky words.

Some words we have written - oa, park, turn,…

A busy week in Reception, we've been working really hard practicing our assembly, please support your child in practising their lines at home!

Phonics -

Grapheme recap - air, ow, ar, oo (moon), ear.

Tricky word recap - all tricky words.

Some words we have written - chair, cow,…

A sunny week in Reception, where our lovely garden is showing signs of Spring!

Phonics - we have looked at longer words this week with two syllables and introduced words that we can 'chunk' when reading. This means reading the first syllable of the word, then the next, then blending…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. The children have settled beautifully back into school, showing us their super learning behaviours.

Phonics -

Graphemes - air, er, words with double digraphs dd, mm, tt, bb, rr, gg, pp, ff, tt.

Tricky words - are, sure,…

Another busy week in Reception, we hope you have a lovely half term!

Phonics -

Graphemes - ur, ow, oi, ear.

Tricky words - my, by, all.

Words written - turn, hurt, down, now, join, boil, hear, near.

Maths -

This week, we have consolidated our understanding of the…

Another lovely week with fantastic learning in Reception - we are half way through writing our 3rd book in English and this term, we are writing animal stories. The children are becoming excellent authors and illustrators and it's amazing to watch their imaginations develop page after…

Thank you so much to those who attended our learning fair last week - we hope you enjoyed celebrating your child's amazing work and having a look around the classrooms.

Phonics -

Graphemes - ai, ee, igh (trigraph), oa.

Tricky word recap - I the, put, pull, full.

We have been so…

Another lovely week in Reception with more fantastic learning and a few special visitors!

Phonics -

Recap - qu, sh, th, ng, nk.

Tricky words - recap of all learnt words.

A few words we have written in class - quit, shop, sing, link.

Maths -

We have focused on further…