Welcome to Reception
We are very excited to welcome you all to the start of your school life at St Augustine’s! This year is going to be filled with fun, lots of learning and new experiences.
The Reception Teachers are Mrs Towle and Mrs Jordan; and they are supported by our highly experienced Teaching Assistants, Mrs Beaven and Mrs Shorbagy.
Here you will find all the information you need about what we will be doing in Reception this term and throughout the academic year.
Remember, it is really important to be at school every day, on time and ready to learn.
PE/Forest School:
Our PE/Forest School day is on Friday. Children should come to school dressed in their PE kit on this day.
Reading at home:
Please read with your child each evening. This could be supporting them to read their Rhino Readers reading book; or sharing with them their school library book or a chosen book from home.
Week Commencing 13th October
RE: Next week, we will be continuing with our learning on 'Creation', with a focus on things we are thankful for, in Creation and in our own lives. We will be talking about how we thank God during prayer and we will be sharing our thoughts on what we are thankful for, and then drawing a picture to accompany our words of thanks. We will then share our prayers of thanks during a class liturgy.
Maths: We will be continuing with our unit 'Talk about measure and pattern'. Our focus will be on 'pattern' - we will be exploring simple patterns, copying and continuing patterns, and finally, creating our own patterns.
Phonics: Our new sounds will be h, b, f and l. We will be taking part in lots of different games and activities, helping us to hear and identify the phoneme and remember the grapheme. We will also be practising reading our new tricky words I, no, go, to, the!
English: Our focus text next week is 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell. We will be comparing our homes with the Owl Babies' home, drawing a picture of our own home and talking about what it looks like. We will also be thinking of descriptive words for Mummy Owl, in order to create a class 'lost poster'.
Week Commencing 6th October
RE:
This week, we will continue exploring the story of Creation and complete our special piece of art inspired by it. We will also learn about St Francis of Assisi, whose feast day was celebrated on 4th October. St Francis is well known for his love and care for animals—an important part of God’s creation. To honour his example, we will be making bird feeders to hang around the school, helping care for the birds just like St Francis did.
Maths:
We’re starting a brand new unit: ‘Talk About Measure and Pattern’. Our focus will be on comparing size, mass, and capacity, using lots of hands-on, practical measuring activities to support our learning.
Phonics:
This week’s new sounds are ck, e, u, and r. We’ll be exploring these phonemes through fun, interactive activities to help us hear the sounds and recognise the graphemes. Excitingly, we’ll also learn our first digraph—two letters that work together to make one sound: ck!
English:
We’ll continue sharing the lovely book ‘Hello, Friend’ by Rebecca Cobb. We’ll be looking closely at the illustrations and thinking about how we play and share with our new Reception friends. The children will also have the opportunity to draw pictures of some of their favourite things to do at school.
Special Reminders:
At Saint Augustine’s Primary School, our school rules are simple yet powerful: Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe, and Be the Best You Can Be.
These school rules guide us in everything we do, helping us create a positive, caring, and inspiring learning environment.
Being ready means coming prepared to learn and try our best every day.
Being respectful reminds us to treat others with kindness and value everyone's contributions.
Being safe ensures that we look after ourselves and others, both inside and outside the classroom.
And striving to be the best we can be encourages us to aim high, work hard, and take pride in our achievements.
Together, these rules help us to grow into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals.