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.

Adults in Reception:

Dragonfly Class

Class Teacher- Mrs C Owen

Class TAs - Mrs Andrews (M, T, Th, F) & Miss Cox (W)

Bumblebee Class

Class Teacher- Miss A Nicholls

Class TA- Mrs Saunders (picture to follow)

Caterpillar Class

Class Teacher - Miss K Woodbridge 

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

Our Enquiry in Term 5 is 'What's that Lurking in the Garden?'. We will begin our Enquiry by adventuring into the Forest to go on a bug hunt! We will learn the names of many mini-beasts and discover a variety of interesting facts about each one. We will be learning to move like creepy crawlies and learn our new Mini-beast song to sing along to ‘Mini-beasts Song’. We will be learning all about the story of ‘Superworm’, ‘Mad About Mini-beasts’ and ‘Aargh Spiders!’ and many more. We will be retelling and innovating a variety of poems from the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Nearer the end of the Term we will be learning about growing vegetables, and lifecycles of some mini-beasts. To enhance this learning, we will be going on trip to visit to our local allotments to have a closer look at planting, growing, fruit and vegetables!

In phonics we will be independently using Phase 2 and Phase 3 phonics in our writing. We will be starting Phase 4 where we will be learning about adjacent consonants and learning new Common Exception Words (CEW). We will be reading and spelling learnt CEW correctly from all of the Phases. We will confidently be able to write descriptive sentences that include capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation. We will be beginning to write at length using adjectives, conjunctions and narrative vocabulary. or more information, please visit the ‘Unlocking Letters and Sounds’ website at https://www.unlockinglettersandsounds.co.uk/

In mathematics we will be consolidating and applying our knowledge of numbers to 20 and beyond. In addition and subtraction, we will begin to use number facts to solve equations. We will be learning all about doubling and halving using concrete objects and abstract facts. We will also be looking at First, Then and Now to complete number sentences.