Reception Blog 5th December

Date: 3rd Dec 2025 @ 12:38pm

Welcome to our weekly Reception blog!

Dear Parents,

AWARDS

Well done to our award winners this week!

Phonics

The children have continued to enjoy the daily sessions and have been practising each new phoneme in their independent learning. Please keep sending in on Seesaw examples of the children practising their phonemes and graphemes at home. They have had the chance to practise forming the graphemes correctly. Please see the sheets for the new term in the files section below.

If you want to practise forming the graphemes using the rhymes for each one and playing games such as I spy to help consolidate this weeks learning. Any photos of this homework can be sent in via Seesaw.

Reading

Please remember to read regular with your child, this term especially is important as we delve deeper into their phonetic knowledge for building reading and comprehension skills.

Also please can you ensure only one key ring is hanging from your child's book bag. This will help us fit them in the class box. Thank you.

Please send into school the reading book and reading record book each day as we hear the children read aswell. We change the books twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays. Books will only be changed if the reading record has been written in. If you have any questions please ask.

Take a photo of your child reading in the funniest of places. This will encourage the fun and excitement of bringing stories alive. I will then share some on the blog next week and in future.

Maths

We have been focussing on representing 9 and finding different ways to make 9 such as 5 and 4, 6 and 3, 7 and 2. We have loved comparing quantities and drawing our own groups of 9 such as 9 baubles.

Literacy.

This week we have have created 5 steps of instructions to make Porridge like the Three Bears. We tehn followed our instructions to make our own Porridge.

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Tuesday and Friday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.

End of Day Routine

• Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise. ​

• Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the gate know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.

• We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents. ​

• Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.​

We have started our adventures!

We have continued to keep their road safety lessons by crossing the road safetly.

Please remind the children of these safety steps.

This term our EYFS children will taken part in Lancashire County Councils' Stage 1 Right Start Child Pedestrian Training Programme. This programme teaches your child how to keep themselves safe when out and about in the traffic environment and to apply the rules of the Green Cross Code every time they cross a road. They have been taught how important it is that they:

· Think – is this the safest place to cross the road?

· Stop - with their feet back from the kerb, which gives them time to Look and Listen.

· Look - for any vehicles that might be coming on the road – remember, children of this age are unable to judge speed and distance.

· Listen - for vehicles. They may hear something before they can see it – remind them though, that electric cars make very little noise.

· Think again – have they followed the rules, and will they keep Looking and Listening the whole time they are crossing the road?

They have also been reminded to play in a safe place away from traffic and to wear or carry something bright so they can be seen at the roadside by other road users.

Please can you continue to reinforce these messages when out and about with your children.

Rainbow Raffle

 

How it works: Every class has been assigned a colour and families are invited to donate items in that colour to help fill their class hamper. Please bring donations into school by Monday 15th December.

• Reception: Red

Hampers will be raffled off at our carols in the hall on the afternoon of Thursday 18th December.

Tickets will be coming home in bags on Monday. Please return any money and ticket stubs in an envelope to the school office. Any unsold tickets can be sent back to the office also. Thank you for your support in making this a fun and colourful event for our school community.

School Nativity 

Wow, what a fantastic performance and well done to all the children and thank you to the staff for all their hard work. 

Show and Tell!

Please send us a video or photos via seesaw of your child singing a christmas song of their choice. Such as jingle bells, when santa got stuck etc.

Thank you for your continued support and have a lovely weekend!

The Reception Team