What are children in reception doing at your school?

[Mog]

I've noticed since coming on the education threads that there seems to be an enormous variation in what children do at reception level. At our school it seems to still be heavily play based and although dd brings books home she can't read or write sentences. There doesn't seem to be much push on them to do so either.
I wondered what others have experienced at reception level. Could you also say what age your child is, as I think there is a big difference between age 4 and 5 at this level.

Ds seems to do a mixture of JP and key words. When he's reading it's a real mix of working some words out, reading the ones he knows, and guessing others from the context/phonic sounds.

trying to break out!

I see what you mean GDG but DS knew all his letters and individual sounds well before he went to school. He has brought home sheets (not h/w) withe the letter sounds each week and has also been doing the "ch" and "sh" sounds which he also knows. But no reading! Not that I am obsessed, of course.