St Luke's C.E. Primary School

FAO Parents/Carers,

We have created a whole year group email address for us to keep in contact with you during this home-schooling period. However there are a few email addresses that have 'bounced back', therefore can you please check to see if you have received an email from reception@st-lukes.manchester.sch.uk and if you have not, can you please email that address with your child's name so that we can add you to the contact list. 

Reception Team.

In the early years foundation stage (EYFS), we study the same topics throughout the year in order to deepen the children's knowledge and understanding. However, the weekly planning will be differentiated appropriately to meet the needs of all children for each year group. Below is a list of our class topics for the year. Have a look and see what your child will be learning during each term this year:

Autumn 1 - Ourselves

Autumn 2 - Traditional Tales
Spring 1 - Changes

Spring 2 - Stories from Around the World 

Summer 1 - Growing and Life-cycles

Summer 2 - Animals

Meet the Staff...

Welcome to Spring Term 2 in Reception!

This term we are going to be learning about stories from around the world. During our literacy sessions, we will be reading a number of books to help learn all about how stories are told in different countries and cultures. We will start by reading 'Handa's Surprise' which is a book about a girl who live in Africa.  We will then move on to read the sequel to this book, 'Handa's Hen'. Finally we will be reading a book from India, 'Elephant Dance.'

We will continue to learn how to explore our classroom and engage with our learning. Please help your child to be independent by ensuring they can get changed, feed and wash their hands themselves. Each child will need a bag of spare clothes and their PE kits on their peg, to be kept in school. They will be sent home half termly to be washed.

Phonics, Phonics, Phonics!!

In phonics, we will be continuing to learn some sounds in phase 2 and some groups will be learning phase 3 sounds.

We will learn how to blend to read and segment to spell simple words using the phase 2 and 3 sounds.

The sounds we will be focusing on in Phase 2  are; s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll and ss.

The sounds we will be focusing on in Phase 3  are; j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.

We will continue to send home words including the sounds that your child has been learning in school. Please support your child reading these words daily and put a tick next to the word when they are able to read it. Please also do the same for writing the word. Once each word has 3 ticks, your child will be given a new set of words. Please tick only when your child has read the word, as we only want to move on when they are confident with the given set of words.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we will be focusing on adding two groups of objects to find the total number (to 10) and finding 1 less than a given number to 20. We will also begin to look at measuring weight and capacity.

Parents can help us practise this by completing fun games to practise these skills at home (see weekly homework sheets).

Our Termly Topic

 We will be looking at books related to the topic 'stories from around the world' this half term, we will be focusing our literacy and creative work around these stories.

The EYFS Framework

Throughout Nursery and Reception, we deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. We use this to teach each child, considering their level of development and any additional needs. A copy of this can be viewed here : 

https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/eyfs-statutory-framework/

Staff are always on hand to discuss your child’s development and give advice or practical support on how to encourage learning at home as well as at school! We are happy to help!

Our Class Targets