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) (picture to follow)

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) (picture to follow)

Our enquiry this term is 'What Makes Me Marvellous?’. We will encourage the children to become independent learners and explorers as they make new friends and explore their new school. We will begin our project by waltzing into the story of ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ a story all about a Giraffe named Gerald who finds his own tune (and confidence) to boogie at the Jungle Dance. We will learn all about what makes us unique and share our own special talents! We will solve a mystery with Detective Dog Nell using our five senses and know what foods we like and dislike! We will discuss our attributes and features when creating self-portraits, as well as, describe our families. We will learn to retell the classic story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We will complete our enquiry with a Teddy Bears Picnic in the last week of term where we will bring in our favourite teddy bear from home!

In phonics we will be beginning Phase 2 and introducing our first set of sounds and common exception words. We will be following the ‘Unlocking Letters and Sounds’ scheme of work. We will be writing with a variety of materials and practising letter formation, as well as, our name writing. We will be learning about rhyme and join in with repeated refrains in stories. We will listen for the initial sounds in words and begin to segment and blend words.

In mathematics we will begin to recognise numbers to 10 and match numerals to quantities. We will sing a variety of number songs and we will be counting using 1:1 correspondence by finding ways to count accurately. We will be thinking about more and less. We will begin to recognise and describe 2D and 3D shapes, as well as, think about prepositions.