Please find below some ideas that will really help your child to learn at home. There is also a list of useful websites on the school website. The children have all worked extremely hard during their time in Reception, so you can be extremely proud of them! It would really help them to continue their learning, to help reinforce all of the super things that they have already been taught. Thank you so much for your help and support at home as it is really appreciated!! Hope to see you all soon. Take care and look after each other. We will miss you all so much!

Mrs Melia and Mrs Mangan

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Please find below the Early Learning Goals for Reception. These are the targets that children are working towards in Reception. If your child is working at age related expectations by the end of the school year then they would be assessed at ‘Expected’ in the Early Learning Goal. If they are not quite there, then they would be ‘Emerging’ and if they are above then they would be ‘Exceeding’. The children are assessed against these in 17 areas of the Early Years curriculum. If you would like to look at these in more detail, google ‘Development Matters’ then it will bring up the main document. When the children are assessed it is based on what they can do completely independently without any adult support at all, plus they need to be able to do is consistently on their own. I have included the Early Learning Goals for reading, writing, maths – number and shape, space and measure. I hope you find them useful.

Expected - Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words (e.g. tricky words). They demonstrate an understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

Exceeding- Children can read phonically regular words of more than one syllable as well as many irregular and high frequency words. They use phonic, semantic and syntactic knowledge to understand unfamiliar vocabulary. (means they use a range of strategies) They can describe the main events in the simple stories they have read.

Expected - Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular (tricky) common words. They write sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

Exceeding - Children can spell phonically regular words of more than one syllable as well as many irregular but high frequency words. They use key features of narrative in their own writing. (for example use Once upon a time, include characters and a setting and have a story structure e.g. a beginning , middle with a problem and ending)

Expected - Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing

Exceeding - Children estimate a number of objects and check quantities by counting up to 20. They solve practical problems that involve combining groups of 2, 5 or 10, or sharing into equal groups.

Expected - Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

Exceeding - Children estimate, measure, weigh and compare and order objects and talk about properties, position and time.

I hope you find the ideas useful. I’m sure you will also have lots of lovely other ideas too, like cooking and art and crafts.