RD
Welcome to RD
Welcome to RD's class page. We are happy to welcome you to Reception where we will gain new exciting experiences, meet lots of new friends, and flourish together. We are so excited for the year ahead!
Our class teacher is Miss Roche and our teaching assistant is Miss Pierce.
Miss Roche
Miss Pierce
RD attendance
Your child's attendance in school is so important to support their learning. Remember to be in school, on time, every day!
RD's attendance for the week beginning 19/1/26 was 98%.
Our weekly attendance:
Wb 1.9.25- 78.8%
Wb 8.9.25- 95.5%
Wb 15.9.25- 91.7%
Wb- 22.9.25- 85%
Wb- 29.9.25- 95.6%
Wb- 6.10.25- 93.3%
Wb- 13.10.25- 98.3%
Wb- 3.11.25- 92.4%
Wb- 10.11.25- 94.7%
Wb- 17.11.25- 90.8%
Wb- 24.11.25- 86.7%
Wb- 1.12.15- 86.7%
Wb- 8.12.25- 90.5%
Wb- 5.1.26- 88.8%
Wb- 12.1.26- 91.7%
Wb- 19.1.26- 98%
Home Reading:
Please practise the flashcard in your child's book bag daily. The link below leads to a video which demonstrates the pure speech sounds for you to support your child at home.
https://vimeo.com/1060445878?fl=pl&fe=sh
In your child's reading record is a reading rainbow as shown below. As your child engages with reading at home, they can progress through the rainbow to win reading prizes and bronze, silver and gold certificates!
PE
Our PE day is on a Wednesday.
Soft Play
We have soft play every Friday.
Curriculum
At Kensington Primary, we follow Drawing Club, a creative and engaging approach to early literacy developed by Greg Bottrill. Drawing Club brings stories to life through drawing, imagination and purposeful mark-making. Each week, children explore a high-quality text, picture book or short animation and use it as inspiration for their own drawings and ideas.
Children draw characters, settings and adventures from the story, adding magic buttons or secret symbols that allow them to imagine “what if?” scenarios. These drawings are supported by rich vocabulary, talk and phonics-based writing, which develops naturally from marks and symbols into letters, words and simple sentences.
Drawing Club supports children’s imagination, confidence and love of learning while strengthening key skills such as language development, early writing, fine motor control and storytelling. Most importantly, it makes learning to write meaningful, playful and exciting for young children.
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Reception Curriculum |
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Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
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Theme |
Winter Superheroes and real life heroes |
Easter Lifecycles |
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Supporting texts |
Fiction: Juniper Jupiter – Lizzy Stewart Supertatoe – Sue Hendra Superkid – Clare Freedman Super Daisy – Kes Gray Supertatoe vegs assemble Non Fiction: Real life superhero |
Fiction: The Meanies: Veronica Stanley-Hooper The Meanies Party Chicken Licken Little red hen The Easter Egg by Jan Brett Non Fiction: The life cycle of a chick |
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Phonics |
Sounds: j,v,w,x,y,zz,q u,ch,sh,th,th,ng,oo, a |
Sounds: oo,ow, ee, ur, ai, or
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Maths |
Finding and recognising numbers Subitising Representing numbers 1 more and 1 less Measure and patterns Composition of numbers Shape, space and measure With a focus on numbers 5-7 |
Finding and recognising numbers Subitising Representing numbers 1 more and 1 less Measure and patterns Composition of numbers Shape, space and measure With a focus on numbers 7-9 |
Upcoming trips
This half term we are learning about people who help us. We will have a WOW visit from people who help us soon, dates are to be confirmed.
On the 2nd March we will begin hatching chicks as part of our growing theme in Spring 2!
Stay and Read
On Tuesday 27th January we had our stay and read. We had a lovely time sharing our favourite stories with our friends!
Stay and Puzzle- Monster Maths Club
Dates to be confirmed.
Toilet training
Please follow this link for any support or guidance around toilet training your children at home. https://startingreception.co.uk/potty-training/
Toothbrushing at home
Please follow this link for any support or guidance around supporting tooth brushing at home. Children's oral health is so important for their speech and language development. https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/about/cheshire-and-merseyside-health-and-care-partnership/all-together-smiling/
WOW visits
We were so excited to receive a visit from Altru Drama Club this week! We had the opportunity to explore a variety of Traditional Tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, and The Three Little Pigs. We had so much fun recreating the stories, and creating our own story at the end!
During the Autumn term we visited Imagine That! We had so much fun exploring space, digging for dinosaur bones, and creating magnets and bags in the art space. We even got the chance to be scientists and create our own slime!
