Reception

Weekly Update - Friday 5th December 2025

Summary of this week:

The children have excitedly been beginning to think about Christmas through the discussion of our upcoming Nativity performance. They have learnt about the Nativity story and have chosen which part they would like to play in the performance. Thank you for all of your support getting their costumes ready. If you have any difficulty, please let us know as we have a few spares that we would be happy to lend out. The children have been hard at work singing and learning all the Nativity songs and makaton signs.

We have also been comparing quantities this week. Focusing on counting carefully and comparing objects in different groups. The children had a go at editing and writing their own ‘Stuck in the mud’ stories and we have been so impressed at how their phonics and segmenting skills are developing.

Our learning next week:

Maths

We will focus on number composition. We will be looking at whole numbers and the parts that make them up.

Literacy

We will focus on the story ‘Dear Santa’. We will create story ‘S’ maps and have a go at labelling the presents.

Phonics

This week we will be focusing on the sounds th, sh ng nk. Our new tricky words are she, he, of.

PSED (Personal, Social, Emotional Development): Sticking up for ourselves.

RE: The Christmas Story- The Kings

Art: Christmas salt dough decorations

Vocabulary: part, part, whole.

Makaton signs: Christmas, presents, Santa.

Homework:

Can you practice getting dressed and undressed independently at home?

Notices & Reminders:

Toileting Issues - The HCRG Care Group ( providers of community health care, including school nurses) have advised us of a new Toileting Support pathway for parents of children who are struggling with daytime and nighttime wetting and issues with constipation/soiling/withholding etc. The Toileting Support Webinar is a Surrey wide live webinar that is run by the School Nursing team with an opportunity for questions and answers at the end - the next live webinar is on 6^th January at 10:30am.

Please do ensure that the children have their reading records and books in every day in case it’s their group’s turn to read.

The family competition will close on Monday so that we have time to send them all off. Please make sur you hand any entries to your child’s class teacher as we don’t always check the book bags.

We are looking forward to seeing you all for our Nativity productions next week. If you have not handed in a costume for your child, please do so on Monday. Any problems please let us know. We have a few spare costumes we are happy to lend out.

This week a few children have been disappointed to not take a new book home to read due to not returning their current books. Please make sure books and reading diaries are always kept in their book bags. We will usually change books on a Thursday or Friday. Thank you for your support with this!

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.

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