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

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 L Andrews - NELI and Intervention support

Mrs M Rayner- NELI 

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

Term 2: What Do We Celebrate?

Our enquiry this term is ‘What do we Celebrate?' We will then learn about different celebrations from around the world and within religions such as Diwali, Chinese New Year, Eid and Christmas! We will hold a Diwali day where we will create clay diva lamps, perform a Bollywood dance routine and get messy painting a firework splatter painting! We will make pumpkin soup at the beginning of term. We will touch on bonfire night and how we have changed into the season of winter. We will learn, retell and innovate the story of ‘Dear Santa’. We will learn a variety of new Christmas Nativity songs and perform them at our Christmas show!

In phonics we will be learning new sounds in Phase 2 as well as recapping all sounds 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 reading a variety of stories including ‘Kipper’s Birthday’, ‘Rama and Sita’ and ‘Dear Santa’. We will be writing simple words and captions in Literacy. 

In mathematics we will be continuing to recognise numerals to 10 and counting to 20. We shall be looking at how the numbers are formed and we will begin to record using numerals.  In a Diwali theme, we will be counting up to and past ten to 15  as well as learning about number bonds to 5. We will be using the language of ‘more’ and ‘less’ to compare two sets of objects. We will be finding one more and one less practically.