Teacher – Miss Younge
TA- Mrs Campbell, Miss Edwards
Summer Term 2026:
Summer Term 2026: Wow! And yet again, It’s been another crazy busy half term in Reception! We can’t believe it’s June already. 
Communication Language and Literacy
In literacy we are definitely starting to become authors and are now learning to write sentences. We have drawn a character and a setting and orally retold our stories. This was fun as we were able to share our experiences with the rest of the class and read our stories out loud. Miss Edwards also helped to bring our characters to life by describing them on AI.
We are still practising phonics daily in our phonics lessons and reading. Daily reading is really important and most of the class are where they should be, learning phase 4.
Maths
In maths we have started to look at what numbers make 10 – addition and subtraction and most of us can count back from 20.
Understanding the World
In history we have researched about toys in the past and found out about the toys our parents and grandparents played with. We even have a Victorian rocking horse in the classroom. We then explored and compared fiction and non-fiction books. In science we have been scientists ourselves and started planting plants in the school garden. This follows on from our learning in Spring term when we learnt about what plants need.
RE
In our RE lessons and worship we have been learning about the values of hope and love. We also talked about how different religions celebrate special times and talked about how Muslims celebrate Eid and Christians celebrate Christmas. We also learnt about how Christians believe God created the world in seven days.
Expressive Art and Design
In Design and Technology, we enjoyed designing a crown made out of felt and we collaged some felt pieces on to make a pattern. We then sewn our hats together with a needle and thread.
Physical development
In PE lessons we have been focussing on racket sports and using our good eye-hand coordination. We are also going to take part in sports day and will enjoy the opportunity to take part in an obstacle course, as well an egg and spoon race.
| TOPIC NAMES |
Understanding the World |
EAD (Expressive Arts and Design |
PSED |
RE |
Physical Development |
Literacy (Reading and Writing) |
Maths |
| Reception
SUMMER
ICT ARTICLE 17 |
SUM 1: Toys/ Life in the past
ART 31, 13,24
SUM 2: Castles
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Sculpture- Sum 1
Collage – Sum 2
Music Express- Let’s Go Green and Who Shall I Be Today? (playing instruments to a beat)
Class assembly
Castles song- Let’s Build a Castle
Role play- Space station/rocket, castle
Additional- SEE RECEPTION CURRICULUM DOC.
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Think Equal
SUM 1: Nothando’s Journey: Unpleasant emotions and calming strategies Reha to the rescue: Demonstrating emotions in different ways My Amazing Brain: Understanding the brain A Tiny Seed: Environmental impact and making a difference My Amazing Brain B
SUM 2: Our Home: Demonstrating responsibility for the environment Gokul’s Game: Being left out My Dream In the Drawer: Setting a goal Sydney the Seahorse My Skin is Brown Deji and Nnedi and the very large cushion: Practical peaceful conflict resolution Recap on key learning
TRANSITION
Additional- SEE NURSERY CURRICULUM DOC. |
LIVING: What is special about our world?
Values- Faith, Hope and Love |
Gross Motor Skills ▪ Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others ▪ Demonstrate strength, balance and coordination when playing ▪ Move energetically, such as running, jumping, dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing. Fine Motor Skills ▪ Hold a pencil effectively in preparation for fluent writing – using the tripod grip in almost all cases ▪ Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery ▪ Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.
Martin Harvey formal handwriting lessons.
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Reading: Comprehension / Word Reading
▪ Continue to develop P1 phonological awareness àOral blending and segmenting ▪ Demonstrate an understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary …sequence ▪ Anticipate-where appropriate-key events in stories. ▪ Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions about stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems and during role play. àBegin to notice some relationships between one text and another Begin to comment on perceived links with own life experience or other experiences, e.g. films, books ▪ Say the sound for each letter of the alphabet and for at least 10 digraphs àSecure P3…trigraph ▪ Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending ▪ Read aloud simple sentences and books that are consistent with their phonics knowledge, including some common exception words (approximately yellow book band – instructional level)… you, they, all, are, my, her (plus see Autumn/Spring words) Writing ▪ Write recognisable letters (lower case and capital) most of which are formed correctly ▪ Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with letter/s, using taught GPCs à CVC words ▪ Write simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others Including: □ oral rehearsal of sentence before writing □ word spacing □ full stop □ capital letter ▪ Begin to sequence 2-3 sentences within purposeful fiction/ non-fiction writing, such as: 2-3 part story (e.g. using story map/planner) àInstructions àFact cards (e.g. using a ‘spidergram’ to collate information) |
Geometry – Exploring patterns.
– Making simple patterns – Exploring more complex patterns Addition and subtraction – Counting on and back. – Adding by counting on – Taking away by counting back Number and place value –Numbers to 20. – Counting to 20 Multiplication and Division – Numerical patterns. – Doubling – Halving and sharing – Odds and evens Measurement – Measure |
Homework Leaflet-Homework leaflet
Class newsletter Reception Autumn 1 2025
