• Long Term Plan
• Newsletters
• Knowledge Organisers

EYFS Lead and Pippin Class Teacher

Miss Smith 

Dove Class Teacher

Dove and Pippin Class News

You will find updates on tapestry. If you do not have access to Tapestry please contact Mr Langdon or the school office and we will sort this for you. Termly newsletters and knowledge organisers can be found on this page and hope that you find them useful in supporting your child’s learning at home or in just giving you an insight into what we get up to in Reception at Herne View.

Summer Term 2025

This term will be a busy one! Please keep practicing your reading at home is is such an important skill and the more you practice the easier they will find it! We will also be doing our water safety sessions in the Summer term. These will take place on Thursday afternoons. Please ensure children have their swimming kit with them. We advise that girls wear one piece swimming costumes and boys wear swimming trunks over board shorts. If they would like to wear goggles please ask for a permission letter for this. 

Spring Term 2025

We have had another successful term in reception. Thank you to everyone who has been doing our 5 reads a week with their home books. Please ensure that you keep returning the book each week as we cannot send another home until the first has been returned! 

We have loved learning about the Easter story and have enjoyed sharing this with parents at our Easter Service. 

Yoga has been a highlight of the term we have been on many adventures to the circus, beach and on an imaginary airplane! 

Autumn Term 2024

Thank you all for a successful start to the Autumn term! All. Please feel free to choose which gate you would like to come in via in the morning. Miss Crouch is normally at the Silver street gate so this may be helpful if your child needs a familiar face. We ask that all children come into school independently as we have found children settle much easier in school with a quick transition into school.  We realise that many children are getting very tired from the school day and are emotional as a result they are fine once they get into school and start their day. 
                                           

Little Wandle

We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds to teach or phonics, spelling and guided reading sessions. Although your child will be taught to read at school, you actually have a huge impact on their reading journey by continuing their practice at home. By then end of KS1, children are expected to read age-appropriate texts fluently and with expression while demonstrating comprehension by retelling stories, identifying main ideas, and answering questions. Therefore, to support this, we suggest that you should aim for 5 reading sessions at home each week. This could be your child reading to you or you reading to your child. Please make sure you record what you or your child has read in their reading record.

There are two types of reading books that your child will bring home each week (once they are ready):

Decodable Little Wandle book

This book has been carefully matched to your child’s current reading level and they have already been exposed to this book in class in their reading sessions that week. If your child is reading it with little help, please don’t worry that it’s too easy – your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise – celebrate their success! If they can’t read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.

Sharing book of their choice

In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together. Please remember that you shouldn’t expect your child to read this alone. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that you have fun!

If you require any more information about Little Wandle, please visit their webpage: For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)