Summer Term 2025

Welcome back to our Reception class as we start the final part of your Reception Southill School journey. We are excited to be back learning together!

During this term, we will secure our personal, social and emotional skills. We will continue to explore using our classroom and outdoor setting to enhance our learning. We will experience an exciting range of opportunities and continue to find out about our next steps to develop as curious learners.

Our main focus will continue to be the prime areas of learning (Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development) to underpin everything we do. In addition we will plan and experience many activities and opportunities to enhance the specific areas of learning (Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design).

Daily phonics sessions will continue, following our Little Wandle phonics and reading programme. We will send home books each week, after reading the book three times at school. Children will also bring home a library book each week. Our phonics focus this half term will be on revisiting words we have read as well as reading new and longer words.

Our topic for this half term will be  On The Beach, where we learn about the plants and animals that live at the seaside. We also explore holidays in the past and the importance of staying safe in the sun.

As we continue becoming nature detectives we will make use of our amazing school grounds, exploring the end of spring- looking at the natural changes that happen, then moving on to the start of summer.

Things to remember:

Please bring a drink of water every day for snack time/lunch

The weather can still be unpredictable so bring outdoor clothing to cope with this – rain coats for those wet days and sun hats when it is warm and sunny.

Remember to read every day and write comments in the reading diary. This should include time for sharing your sounds in your phonics book, reading your Little Wandle book and looking at your sharing book from the library.

Remember to check the website for our weekly class blog. We love it when you leave us a message too as we read them out in our class.

Our day for taking part in a P.E session will be on a Thursday. Please wear your kit to school for the day.

We will welcome children through our blue gate from 8.45-8.55 in the morning. Please leave your child with staff at the gate and we will settle them in to school.

If you have any questions or you would like to send me information about any of your learning at home, please contact me by email.

Mrs Puddick

a.puddick@southill.dorset.sch.uk