Welcome to Reception!
In Reception we love to learn by exploring and investigating through hands on activities. This helps us to develop our own thoughts and feelings about the world around us. It is important for us to share, show love and kindness towards each other.
The class teachers are Mrs Kenny & Mrs Pickup, and the class teaching assistant is Mrs Stockburn.
Class of 2026-27
Class Information
These are the end of year expectations for EYFS children. Children will either achieve the Early Learning Goals (Expected), or be working towards them (Emerging):
If you want to ask anything or send any photographs please email ourschool@cliviger.com.
Each week we will put on the activities which the children will be learning in class. This will help you as parents to reinforce the work which we have covered in class. So for example if we were learning about money you could practise using coins whilst out shopping, when learning about 2D shapes you might hunt for them on a family walk, etc.
Week Beginning 2nd November:
Literacy: This week we are using the book WOW! Said the Owl in Drawing Club. The words related to the story are:
Exhausted, slumber, vivid, dazzling, perched, nocturnal, inquisitive, astonished.
Phonics:
Mrs Kennys/ Mrs Pickup’s group - ck, e, u. ‘Ck’ is a digraph, a phoneme (sound) which has two letters. Tricky words ‘I’ and ‘to’.
Mrs Stockburn’s group - o, c, k. Tricky word ‘the’.
Numeracy - This week we are recognising and finding numbers 1, 2, 3.
RE: We will begin our theme of Christmas, by introducing it. We will also start to practice for our Christmas Nativity with Years 1 and 2.
PSHE - This week we are learning about keeping safe at bonfire night.
Homework - When out and about find 1, 2, 3 objects.
This is the patter for how we write numerals:
Have a look on this link to find out more about phonics which helps your child to read and write. We follow the ‘Red Rose’ programme to teach phonics.
Spellings for Week Beginning 2nd November:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group - ck (It is a digraph, two letters together which make one phoneme (sound), e, u. Tricky words ‘I’ and ‘to’
sack
pick
neck
mug
ten
*I*
*to*
Mrs Stockburn’s Group - o, c, k. Tricky word ‘the’
cot
kit
mop
can
kip
cop
*the*
Spellings for Week Beginning 19th October:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group - o, c, k. Tricky word ‘the’
cot
kit
mop
can
kip
cop
the
Mrs Stockburn’s Group - recapping s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g
dig
sit
pin
sat
dad
gap
Spellings for Week Beginning 12th October:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group - recapping s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g
dig
sit
pin
sat
dad
gap
Mrs Stockburn’s Group - m, d, g
man
map
dad
pad
dog
pig
Spellings for Week Beginning 5th October:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group
man
map
dad
pad
dog
pig
Mrs Stockburn’s Group
pat
pit
sit
pin
Spellings for Week Beginning 28th September:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group
pat
pit
sit
pin
Mrs Stockburn’s Group
sat
at
Spellings for Week Beginning 21st September:
Mrs Kenny/ Mrs Pickup’s Group
sat
at
Mrs Stockburn’s Group
Practise hearing phonemes (sounds) in words, e.g. I can see a c-a-t, m-a-n. Can your child guess what you can spy?
Sounds we will be working on in the autumn term...
Tricky words to practise reading and writing:
Phase 2
- I
- no
- into
- go
- to
- the
Sounds we will be working on in the spring and summer terms...
Tricky words to practise reading and writing:
Phase 3
- he
- she
- we
- me
- be
- my
- you
- was
- are
- all
- her
- they
Phase 4
- like
- said
- when
- have
- one
- come
- do
- so
- were
- some
- there
- out
- little
- what
Below is a link to a website to read about how you can improve your child’s vocabulary at home. There is a strong emphasis on language and communication in the new EYFS curriculum, so please take time to read this. We would also recommend that you read to your child every night in order to develop their language and vocabulary.
This is the patter for how we write:
Autumn 1 Vocab mats EYFS
This year we are supporting:
