Welcome to Reception!

We are so pleased that you have chosen West Town Lane Academy to begin your child's Primary School learning journey. Here you will find helpful information regarding your child's learning, key dates and events.

Back to School Zoom (25.09.25 @ 4pm) slides to refer back to. 

Adults in Reception:

Dragonfly Class

Class Teacher- Mrs C Owen (on maternity leave), Mrs Kidd (maternity cover)

Class TAs - Mrs Saunders

Bumblebee Class

Class Teacher- Miss A Nicholls

Class TA- Miss Andrews 

Caterpillar Class

Class Teacher - Miss C Simmonds

Class TA- Mrs M Rayner (M, T) & Miss Cox (W, Th, F)

Additional Support

Mrs M Rayner- NELI 

Miss K Rosling- Sensory Circuits, Bucket Time and Talking Tunes

Mrs Roberts - TA cover for Mrs Rayner from Easter, Bucket Time and Talking Tunes.

Term 3: Who is the Meanest Story Villain?

Our enquiry this term is ‘Who is the Meanest Story Villain?' We will then learn about traditional fairy tales including the 3 little pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding Hood! We have lots of exciting things going on including medieval dancing, making pancakes, dressing up as fairy tale characters and so much more.

In phonics we will be recapping all sounds learnt in phase 3 but at a mastery level, alongside the Common Exception Words. We will continue to take books home to read 3-5 times a week. We will be talking about story sequences and exploring characters, settings and plots. We will be writing simple words and sentences in Literacy in order to work towards creating our own wanted posters of the different story villains.

In mathematics we will be continuing to recognise numbers up to 10 focusing in depth on numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 0. We will also begin a measurement topic including capacity, mass, length and height.