Reception Spring Term 2 - 2025

Welcome back to the wonderful world of ‘Spring and Growth’ ourtopic for this term.  The children have started with learning all about‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ including finding a giant beanstalk growing in theirclassrooms! They were so surprised to see this along with a letter explainingthat it was the Giant who had broken into the school to find his golden egg!The children have been watching the golden egg to see if it will crack andmaking comments about what it might be. A very exciting start to this termindeed! 

In Maths we will be exploring the text – ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ by Nick Butterworth and this will lead into lots of practical activities involving length, height and weight. We will also continue to explore larger numbers, recapping addition and practising our doubling.

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Hopefully some signs of Spring will soon appear and this will give us the opportunity to plant lots of flowers and vegetables within our outdoor area! The children have been busy this week helping us to create our new garden centre role play areas filling it with lots of lovely flower crafts. Our artist study this term is ‘Mark Herald,’ who creates beautiful bird paintings and this will inspire our own painting of birds. 

Our texts this term have been carefully selected to underpin our Wellbeing First curriculum, ‘The Feelings Book’ has really helped the children explore different emotions and how to cope with them. We also plan special ‘Circle Time’ activities to help us with friendship and kindness. Through these mindful activities and being together, children will learn how to be a good friend. 

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It was so lovely to meet up with you at the recent Parent Consultations to discuss your child’s progress. As always, the Reception team felt privileged to be in a special partnership with you working together to ensure that your child’s needs are met. Thank you for all that you continue todo to support us.

If you have any excess flower pots, seeds, trowels, or other garden bits and bobs they would be gratefully received if you wouldn’t mind passing to your child’s class teacher.

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It was so lovely to meet up with you at the recent ParentConsultations to discuss your child’s progress. As always, the Reception teamfelt privileged to be in a special partnership with you working together toensure that your child’s needs are met. Thank you for all that you continue todo to support us.

If you have any excess flower pots, seeds, trowels, or other garden bits and bobs they would be gratefully received if you wouldn’t mind passing to your child’s class teacher.

Please could we also take the opportunity to thank you for your continued help and support, it really does make a difference to the children’s progress. 

The Reception Team 😊

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