Reception – Term 2, Week 1 – Henleaze Infant School

Key dates

Monday 3rd November – School closed for pupils. Inset day
Tuesday 4th November – Start of Term 2
Friendship week – It is National Anti-Bullying Week in Week 2 (week beginning 10th November). This year’s theme from the Anti-Bullying Alliance is ‘the Power for Good’. If you’d like to know more, please click here. On Monday 10th November, we will kick off the week with Odd Socks Day. The children are invited to wear odd socks (with their normal school uniform) on this day to celebrate what make us unique. Throughout the week the children will explore how to use kindness as a superpower to help others and engage in other related activities.
Wednesday 10th December 2025 – 9:30am Reception Nativity performance to parents/carers.

Children need to bring their book bag with their reading record and book into school every day.
If you haven’t already, please provide your child with a PE kit.
Please provide your child with 1 portion of fruit or vegetables (no crackers, breadsticks etc) in a named pot every day.
When dropping your child off at school in the morning, please make sure they do not play with the resources that have been carefully placed for learning later in the day.
On your way into/out of school, please do not let your child climb on and walk along the wall. Due to safety reasons, we cannot allow 30 children to walk on during the school day. It is really difficult for children to have two different sets of rules, therefore we ask that no children walk on the wall.

The objectives below will be covered over the four ‘Structured Story Times’ this week.

Book:	Pumpkin Soup
Vocabulary focus:	cabin, pipkin, slurp, quilt, embroidered, squabble, barrow, scoffed
At the end of the week, children will know:	how important it is to share and for our decisions to be fair. that even really close friends can fall out or argue and still be friends in the end. the importance of forgiveness in friendship.
At the end of the week, children will be able to:	engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary. talk about a character’s feelings, assigning the correct vocabulary to emotions. empathise with characters (when someone will not share).

Subject	This week’s learning objectives
Communication and language	To use talk to imagine – to take on different roles in imaginative play, to interact and negotiate with people and to have longer conversations.
Personal, Social and Emotional development	To identify their feelings.
Physical development	To develop balancing.
Phonics	Phonemes: j v w x CEW: Me
Reading	1:1 reading with all children
Writing	To label pictures using CVC words
Maths	To find 4 and 5 – Spot the numbers 4 and 5 in different objects and pictures. To subitise 4 and 5 – Recognize groups of 4 or 5 without counting. To represent 4 and 5 – Use things like tiles or shells to show 4 and 5 in different ways. To know 1 more within 5- Add one more to groups of 4 or 5.
Understanding the World	To work with others to decide upon and negotiate roles.
Expressive Arts and Design	To explore and investigate the tools and materials in the junk modelling area. To draw with increasing accuracy using and experimenting with both HB and coloured pencils, felt tips, chalk and crayon to represent their ideas.