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 (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 Roberts (M, T) & Miss Cox (W, Th, F) (Mrs Rayner on maternity leave)

Additional Support

Mrs Pomphrey- NELI, Sensory Circuits, Bucket Time and Talking Tunes

Mrs Roberts - Sensory Circuits, Bucket Time and Talking Tunes

Term 5: What's that lurking in the garden?

Our enquiry this term is ‘What's that lurking in the garden?' We will learn about minibeasts, life cycles, growing plants and how to look after our environment! We have lots of exciting things going on including a trip to the zoo for a minibeast hunt, looking after our very own caterpillars to watch them transform into butterflies, food tasting and so much more!

In Phonics we will be starting phase 4 learning, which consists of adjacent consonants and new CEW. We will continue to take books home to read 3-5 times a week. We will be focusing on 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' where we will be talking about story sequences and exploring characters, settings and plots. We will be writing simple words and sentences in Literacy through writing different facts and information about minibeasts.

In Mathematics we will be learning our numbers to 20, adding, subtracting and shape (rotation).