Welcome to Reception

Wrens and Puffins

Learning in Early Years looks different each and everyday. Check in often for updates on things we have been doing!

If you need to contact us with any queries about your child, please use the email address eyfs@burpham.surrey.sch.uk. 

Thank you :)

Meet our team

Wrens and Puffins news

Wrens and Puffins have enjoyed sharing the story 'Supertato' by Sue Hendra and finding out about vegetables. We have explored where different vegetables grow, how they grow and which ones end up in the freezer aisle in our supermarkets. We have had lots of fun running our own supermarket, making Wanted posters to capture 'Evil Pea' and designing traps to catch Evil Pea and creating our own 'super hero vegetables!'

We have enjoyed finding out about superheroes in our community such as doctors, firefighters and police officers and thinking about what our own super powers might be. We shared the story Superbat by Matt Carr and discovered that Superbat's super power was 'courage' which is just like being brave like Bonkers! We have talked about what other super powers we could have such as using our imagination like Sky, being busy like Buzzy bee or keeping going when things are tricky just like our learning to learn character Patrick. We are all superheroes!

Wrens and Puffins have been really busying caring for the plants, fruits and vegetables that are growing in our outside garden. We are enjoying watering our plants and watching them grow!

Phonics in Reception

Here at Burpham, we follow the 'Essential Letters and Sounds programme' for our daily phonics lessons.

Please use the resources below to see how you can support your child at home with their phonics at home.

Spring Phonics Meeting

It was lovely to see so many parents at our phonics meeting. If you would like further information or clarification about how we teach reading at Burpham, then please speak to your child's class teacher or to Mrs Moldon, our Reading Lead (fiona.moldon@burpham.surrey.sch.uk)

Home Learning

Please use the flash cards we have sent home to consolidate sounds taught and the Harder to Read and Spell words

Read books/stories daily and have conversations about the books you've shared

Play games together - practise turn taking, recognising numbers on a dice, counting the spaces and following the rules of the game

Bake or cook something - follow instructions, measure, count, explore the reactions, taste and discuss likes and dislikes

Educational apps that make learning fun

 -Teach your monster to read

 - Phonics Play

 - Cbeebies explore

 - Reading eggs

 - Voice recorder (read a sentence to the app and listen to it back in a silly voice!)

- Numberblocks

CEOP website supporting online safety through an interactive game

Top Reads for EYFS!

Stuck for a good read? Click on the link below to search out some great texts!

https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/recommended-reads/reception/

In the event of school closure: 

On rare occasions, it may be necessary to close the school. This may be due to adverse weather conditions or perhaps when essential school services cannot be provided –e.g. heating, plumbing or water.  

Please refer to the School’s Bad Weather Policy on our website for information regarding how we communicate a school closure. 

Class teachers will then initiate home school learning activities, and these will be available to children by 10am of the same morning.