EYFS – Newsletter – 19/09/2025

What a fun-packed week in Reception! This week we have continued our topic of ‘All About Me’ by looking further at our five senses. We learned about how our bodies send messages to our brain to experience smell and taste, which can help keep us safe from dangerous foods and drinks. The children were invited to blind tests of their smell and taste and used some fantastic vocabulary to describe what they could smell and taste. 

Our Phonics sessions began this week , with children starting Phase 1 of our Phonics scheme. This phase concentrates on the foundational skills of speaking and listening which will be crucial as we begin to learn letters and sounds from next week. The children were challenged to take part in listening activities to rehearse their listening skills and help them to discern between tones. Children played hidden instruments as their friends listened carefully and guessed what was being played. There was also rhyming games as children were encouraged to hear rhyming pairs. 

Maths sessions this week concentrated on matching and sorting activities to help rehearse the children’s skills in pattern recognition and vocabulary of comparison. The children spotted the odd-one-out in groups; found pairs of socks from a cluttered assortment and built towers of blocks following instructions and then compared them to each others.

At the start of the week, the children enjoyed time spent with our specialist teachers in Art, DT and Music where they were involved in a design session for a dinosaur toy and explored different musical instruments and patterns. 

We have been so impressed by how well the children have settled into school life and how they are interacting with one another in the classroom. Take a look at some of the brilliant activities we have been up to this week: we have seen puzzles, painting, funny faces and tall towers indoors, with castle building, puddle jumping and bike riding outdoors!

On Friday, reading books and records have come home for the first time. Please share this book with your child, discussing the story via the illustrations (words will come later!). There are prompts and questions to support you in reading with your child in the reading record book that accompanied the book. 

REMINDER: Please, please can all uniform come into school with a name clearly visible. It saves confusion and we keep having items lost of mixed up! Also, all children should be bringing in a small ‘book-bag’ sized bag to school. This is purely practical, as we do not have a large cloakroom space and large backpacks take up too much room on pegs.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Reception Team

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

Thursday 9th October – World Mental Health Day: Hello Yellow Day (children encouraged to dress in yellow!).

Thursday 23rd October – Last day of Autumn 1 term