1. Reception Expectations
CASTLEMORTON CE PRIMARY

2. Welcome to Yellow Class
We have had a really good start to the school year and the children have settled into their new classroom and quickly become familiar with the day to day routine.
Please remember to check your child’s book bag on a Friday for Hot Gossip and parent post so that you are kept up to date with school news and up coming events. This information, along with homework and much more, can also be found on the school website.
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3. A typical day in Yellow Class
Registration and welcome
Carpet session- Maths/ Literacy
Child initiated activities and adult focus
Snack in the hall and playtime
Phonics and handwriting
Lunchtime
Assembly/ story time
Home time
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4. What are we learning in Reception?
Three prime areas:
* Communication and language
* Physical development
* Personal, social and emotional
development
Four specific areas:
* Literacy
* Mathematics
* Understanding the world
Expressive arts and design

5. Reception Expectations
Aim of today is to briefly go through the Early Years curriculum setting out the key objectives for the core subjects, outlining how we will approach teaching them and suggesting ways in which you can support your child with their learning.
We strive to make learning fun and engaging for all children and encourage them to be curious, independent and resilient learners.
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6. Reception Expectations
To gain a good level of Development (GLD) at the end of the year children need to reach the Early Learning Goal (ELG) in the 3 Prime areas plus Literacy and Maths.
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7. Reading – Early Learning Goal
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

8. Reading at School Daily phonics sessions- Read, Write Inc.
Learning sounds
-Blending sounds to read Green words e.g mat, sat, peg etc.
-Recognising tricky words on sight (red words) e/g I, no, go.
Phonics activities- children will complete a variety of phonics activities during adult led focuses and child initiated activities.
Reading books- children will read to an adult at school.
They will be asked questions about what they have read.
-Children will be supported to change their book 3 times a week.
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9. How to help at home: Listening to your child read can take many forms:
First and foremost, focus developing an enjoyment and love of reading.
Enjoy stories together – reading stories to your child is equally as important as listening to your child read.
Practice the sounds that are sent home- make it in to a game, let your child teach you.
Play games with the green and red words that will be sent home.
Read a little at a time but often, rather than rarely but for long periods of time!
Encourage your child to use their phonic knowledge to sound out unfamiliar words.
All reading is valuable – it doesn’t have to be just stories. Reading can involve anything from fiction and non-fiction, poetry, newspapers, magazines, football programmes, TV guides.
Visit the local library – a visit to the Hive in Worcester is a great rainy day outing and it’s free!
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10. Writing – Early Learning Goal
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
At Castlemorton we teach cursive handwriting from Reception.

11. Writing at School Daily phonics sessions- Read, Write Inc.
Learning how to write sounds- using rhymes e.g Whoosh Maisie, Mountain, Mountain.
-Segmenting words to write Green words e.g pig, hat, bag.
-Learning how to spell tricky words (red words) e.g I, no, go.
Phonics, handwriting and sentence activities- children will complete a variety of phonics activities during adult led focuses and child initiated activities.
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12. How to help at home
Support your child to learn the handwriting rhymes that go alongside the sounds.
Encourage opportunities for writing, such as letters to family or friends, instructions, shopping lists, notes or reminders, stories or poems.
Do not spell everything out for them and let them write phonetically.
Write together – be a good role model for writing, encourage correct pencil grip and letter formation.
Encourage your child to talk about what they are writing and to read back what they have written.
Show your appreciation: praise and encourage, even for small successes!
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13. Top Tip Ensure that you use pure sounds. No -uh unless it’s ‘u’ !
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14. Maths – Early Learning Goal
Number - Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
Shape, space and measures
Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

15. Maths
Children work with numbers every day, in a range of different ways. They use familiar objects to help them learn about how numbers are used in everyday life, and they will also be linking numbers to topic work
They will be encouraged to be curious and explore numbers. They will play number games, singing counting songs, make models and use the role-play area, as well as being introduced to the ideas of addition and subtraction.
They will be introduced to Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFS) which will help them to establish a solid foundation on which to build their mathematical understanding and problem solving skills e.g number bonds and doubles.
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16. How to help at home
Practise counting – you can do this anywhere: count toys, books, how many buses you see when you go out
Sing number songs
Go on number/shape hunts.
Play card games – even a simple game of snap helps to develop number recognition
Put up a height chart and mark each member of the family's height
At bath time, play with different-sized containers
Make it fun!!!!!
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17. To Recap:
Read daily with your child.
Model correct pencil grip and cursive writing.
Use pure sounds
Count as much as possible
Make it fun!!