Reception

Our Learning

In Reception, we learn through play indoors and outdoors

Outdoors

How can you help at home

Read stories daily to your child and use them as an opportunity to talk about the characters and events in the story. You could also discuss some of the details children have spotted in the pictures, such as the character’s facial expressions.
Have lots of conversations with your child throughout the day. Try and increase their vocabulary by using a wide range of vocabulary.
Practise counting with your child and looking at small groups of items. Explore what happens to numbers when you put these small groups of items together, or split a larger group into two smaller groups.
Support your child’s early reading by practising phonic skills, such as recognising letter sounds and blending them together to read words. Also, support your child with their writing by checking they are forming their letters in the correct way and holding a pencil properly. Always teach your child lower case letters first.
Encourage your child to make healthy food and drink choices, especially related to sugar content and how this can affect teeth. Also, support your child to properly brush their teeth at least twice a day at home.
Plan activities that allow your child to be active and develop their strength through large body movements as well as smaller, more precise movements

Maths

At Longwick we follow the White Rose Maths scheme to support children on their journey to Maths mastery.

It includes opportunities for the children to consolidate prior knowledge, whilst deepening their understanding of the concepts they are taught through problem-solving and reasoning activities.

BBC Numberblocks: these are great short videos to support you child's numerical understanding.

Phonics

At Longwick we follow the Little Wandle scheme to get children off to a flying start in phonics. Please see further information from the Little Wandle website, along with supporting documents to help your children below.