Reception

Weekly Update - Friday 27th June 2025

Summary of this week:

We have been busy editing our stories of Jack and the Beanstalk and between us all have thought of lots of exciting ideas to change the characters and the destinations at the top of the beanstalk! We let our imaginations run wild and it has been lots of fun telling the stories!

Our outdoor classroom is looking great in the sunshine and the children have been applying their learning about growth and change to caring for the seedlings we planted a few weeks ago; watering them and watching them change. We have radishes, peas and beans as well as the sunflowers which are growing beautifully outside our sunny classroom doors!

The children LOVED looking at their baby photos and those of their friends and had so much fun looking for clues to work out who was who and talking about the changes they could see. Thank you for sending them in

Our learning after half term:

Maths	We will be learning about measuring using non-standard measures.
Literacy	Our new text is A New Home for a Pirate by Ronda Arnitage and we will be familiarising ourselves with the story and learning to retell it.
Phonics	Next week we will continue to practise reading longer words and revising our phase 4 tricky words.
Vocabulary	pirate, ship, measure, tall, short

Makaton signs: boy and girl

Show and Tell theme: Draw a picture of and talk about their favourite thing to do in Reception so that we can share with their Year 1 teachers.

If you want to send in photos for us to print, could you let us have them by the afternoon of the day before to make sure we have seen the email and had time to print them off? Thank you.

Song of the week:

Portside Pirate and Dance Like a Pirate

Makaton signs: pirate, ship

Homework:

Use your hands or feet to measure something in your house – how long are all the beds in the house? Eg which is the longest and which is the shortest?

Read a few pages of your reading book every day and record it in your reading record.

Notices & Reminders:

A reminder that sun-screen can be sent in for the children to reapply after lunch. Please do apply it before the children come into school as the temperatures look high again next week.

Move Up Day is next Tuesday 1st July so there will be no PE on that day. Please send the children in wearing their normal uniform.

Welcome to Reception

Please find below presentations from our Reception parent workshops to be held throughout 2024-25, which provide useful information for parents and carers about areas of the Early Years curriculum at Eastwick.

Reception Prime Areas

Infant Reading Parent Workshop Presentation

Contact

To contact the Reception Team, please use this email address: yearr@eastwick.thpt.org.uk.

Eastwick Schools