During the Autumn 2 term Receptions' topic will ‘Let’s Celebrate’ we aim to foster a love of learning for all the children. 

Over the course of this half term we will be exploring the possible themes of Autumn, Bonfire Night, Diwali and Christmas. Within Early Years we love to use a variety of books to support and develop children’s learning. Some of the Books we will look at are Look up, It was a Cold, Dark Night, Rama and Sita, Dear Father Christmas and Dogger’s Christmas. ​

Within literacy we will continue to develop their phonics knowledge and love of reading. We will be starting level 3 phonics this half term. The children will be working hard on learning our level 3 sounds and introducing more diagraphs and trigraphs within this level.  There will be a greater focus on developing our oral blending and segmenting of simple words. As a class we will continue with our small group reading sessions. We will continue to explore more books and learn the skills we need to become confident and fluent readers. Children will enjoy learning new rhymes, songs and poems linked to Charanga and Poetry Basket. Within our writing we will be working hard on developing the children’s pencil grip and encouraging them to mark makes and draw using increasing control. Children will develop their skills to orally spell VC words such as of and up and CVC words such as hat, map and bug. We will be working hard to ensure children can write their own name and form these letters correctly.

Within number this half term we will be focussing on subitising objects and shapes. The children will explore shapes with 4 sides and we will spend time comparing sets of different objects and shapes just by looking. Within this we will introduce the language of comparison such more than, fewer than. There will be focus on counting skills which will include counting, ordinality and cardinality. We will also look at composition of numbers and begin to explore the concept of whole and parts, with numbers 3,4 and 5.

Within PE this half term there will be 2 main focusses for the children. On Wednesday the focus will be dance. On Fridays will be working on dynamic balance to agility. This will be taught through jumping and landing. They will also be developing their seated balance techniques. On Wednesday the focus will be dance. 

​Our PSED theme this half term is 'Celebrating Differences' The knowledge skills we will be looking at are:

Knowing what being proud means and that people can be proud of different things. Knowing that people can be good at different things. Knowing what being unique means and that families can be different. The children will explore and know that people have different homes and why they are important to them. We will also identify feelings associated with being proud and identify things they are good at. Children will be able to vocalise success for themselves and about others successes. They will identify some ways they can be different and the same as others and recognise similarities and differences between their family and other families. We will introduce new vocabulary such as; Different, Special, Proud, Friends, Kind, Same, Similar, Happy, Sad, Frightened, Angry, Family, Unique