Our Team 2026-7
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Teaching Assistants |
Mrs J. Birtles
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Miss R Cooper Miss Wall Miss J Price
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Class Governor: Jenny Axon
Core Subject Resources
The Sunshine Room
Our classroom is named The Sunshine Room. Alongside focussed activities, we can learn in the continuous provision areas. We have a Little Explorer's Area, Reading and Mindfulness Area, Writing Area, Mathematics Area, Fine Motor Area and Construction Area.
The Rainbow Room
The Rainbow Room houses many continuous provision areas as well as focussed, differentiated learning challenges linked to the current topic. The Rainbow Room is accessed daily by all children.
Our Outdoor Area
Summer Term Timetable 2026
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Reception Class Timetable Summer Term 2026 | [pdf 67KB] |
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Curriculum Overview 2025-26
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SMSC Curriculum Overview
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Autumn Term Second Half 2025
Spring Term Second Half 2026
Summer Term Second Half 2026
Reception Class Virtual Library
Reception Class Recommended Reading Books
Giving children access to all varieties of literature is extremely important for their success. Reading is a key life skill which is crucial to developing language skills and access to the wider curriculum. It provides children with the chance to respond and develop personal opinions encouraging deeper thoughts and their imagination. Our aim is to develop a love and passion for reading both at home and school. We have specially selected high quality reading books for each year group. Some of these books can be found in the classroom and some are available for loan at Lees library. Encourage your child to read as many of these books as possible throughout the year.
Please select the document below to see the books we recommend.
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RECEPTION CLASS RECOMMENDED READING LIST | [pdf 325KB] |
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Core Subject Resources
Topic Resources Summer Term Second Half 2026
Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.
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Once Upon a Time |
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The Seasonal Change |
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The World Around Us |
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Oceans and Continents |
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Contrasting Localities |
Summer Term
At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.
Reading
- Read your reading book at least 4x per week at home.
- Listen to a bedtime story and talk about your favourite part.
- Create some sound cards and ask an adult to hide them to go on a sound hunt.
- Create your own story with a beginning, middle and end.
- Create some word cards using your phase 2 and 3 sounds and order them to create a sentence.
Writing
- Practise writing your harder to read and spell words.
- Practise writing your phase 2 and 3 sounds with different materials such as pens, highlighters, paints or build them with playdough.
- Use chalk to write words outside using your phase 2 and 3 sounds.
- Go on an outdoor walk and write a list of some signs of Spring time. You could draw some pictures to go alongside your writing.
- Write some sentences to accompany any drawings or pictures that you do, e.g. ‘The sun is hot’.
Maths
- Practise counting to 20 you could count claps, jumps, hops etc.
- Find different ways of making numbers bonds to 10, e.g. 5+5=10, 2+6=8.
- Practise adding ‘one more’ to amounts and then showing ‘one less’ of a given amount to 20.
- Explore your odd and even numbers and create groups of objects with odd and even numbers.
- Practise your doubles to 10.
Personal Development
- Put on your coat and zip it up by yourself.
- Practise using cutlery and cutting your food.
- Extracurricular clubs e.g. rainbows, cubs, swimming.
- Family time at home, e.g. board games, sharing something about your day, baking.
- Family time outdoors, e.g. going to new places, going on a nature walk, going to the library.
Summer Term
Please see the home learning booklets in your child’s book bag and ensure both these and your child’s planner are signed ready for every Friday.
Please continue to read with your child 4x per week and record each read in their planner. Each read recorded equals 1 sticker on your child’s sticker chart!
Our P.E. day will continue to be on a Thursday.
Our Library visit day will be alternate Fridays.
Key Assessment Criteria for Reception
Please access the documentation below about key assessment criteria in Reception class.
Reception Baseline Assessment
Please use the link below to find out more.
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Reception Baseline Assessment |