Penketh Primary School

Welcome to our Reception Class Page. Here you can find out what we are going to be learning this half-term and read any important reminders.

In HT3 we will continue to strengthen our Phase 2 Phonics. Some children will move onto Phase 3 Phonics. This includes 27 new sounds (many of them being digraphs) and 12 new tricky words.  

Our Phase 2 tricky words are I, no, go, to and into. 

Our Phase 3 tricky words are he, she, we, me, be, you, all, are, her, was, they and my.

Please practise these words at home with your child - reading and writing them!

Click on the link below for some fun, interactive Phonics games to play at home!

Below are a list of Phonics apps to download and use at home!

- Froggy Match-It Phonics

- Teach Your Monster to Read

- PocketPhonics

- Geraldine's Phonics Land

- My Phonics Kit: Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper

Reading Records - Please bring your child's reading record to school every day. Books are changed every Tuesday and Friday. 

PE - PE in Reception class will now be taught on a Tuesday afternoon by Mr K. Please remember to keep indoor PE kits in school. They will be sent home at the end of the half-term to be washed.

Tapestry - In Reception we use 'Tapestry' to track the children's learning. Please check on Tapestry to see what your child has been up to during the school day, and feel free to add your own pictures of anything you have been doing at home as well!

This half-term we will read ‘The Storm Whale in Winter’ and our first non-fiction text ‘Fantastic Fish’.

We will use these books to improve our reading and writing skills, writing small simple sentences.

We will also make our own non-fiction book as a whole class!

In Maths, we will begin to look at adding and subtracting single-digit numbers. We will also be identifying 2D and 3D shapes and will be ordering items by length, height and weight.

Click on the link below for some fun interactive Maths games.