🌟WELCOME TO RECEPTION!🌟

Hello and a big warm welcome to our wonderful Reception Classes!
 

We’re so excited to have you join us on this exciting learning journey. This is the beginning of an amazing adventure where we’ll explore, play, and discover new things every single day.
 

On our learning platform, you’ll find fun activities, stories, and exciting games that will help you grow, learn, and practise the new things you have learnt in school. Your teachers are always here to help, so don’t be afraid to ask questions and explore at your own pace.
 

Let’s get ready to learn, laugh, and make lots of happy memories together. We’re so glad you’re here!

Let the fun begin! 🎉

PE

Our PE day is Wednesday. Please remember to bring your PE kit into a school in a bag with your name on it to hang on your coat hook. At the end of each half term, we will send your kits home to be washed.
 

Our PE uniform is a white t-shirt, black or blue jogging bottoms / leggings, socks, trainers and your school jumper or hoodie. 

Outdoor Play

Please make sure you bring a coat and a pair of wellies to school as the weather does change during the day and your child will be outside in ALL weathers! It is recommended to bring a change of clothes to leave in school so that children can change if they need to. 

Home Reading

Books will be sent home with each child in their red book bags. These red book bags will be supplied by school. Please remember to read your home reading book at least three times a week and make sure your reading record is signed by a grown-up each time you have read. It is important that you read at home regularly to practise the skills that you have learnt in school. 

Homework

A home learning grid will be available at the bottom of this web page with examples of activities for children to complete at home. Children should try to complete at least three activities each half term. This will help children to reinforce the knowledge and skills that they have learnt in school.

Our Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed around the needs of our young children and is organised into seven areas of learning. Each half term we have a key topic that children will explore with their adults and friends, both inside and outside the classroom. Our seven areas of learning are:

Communication and Language 

• Listening, attention and understanding

• Speaking

Personal, Social and Emotional Development:

• Self Regulation

• Managing Self

• Building Relationships

Physical Development:

• Gross Motor Skills

• Fine Motor Skills

Literacy:

• Comprehension

• Word Reading

• Writing

Mathematics:

• Number

• Numerical Patterns
   

Understanding of the World:

• Past and Present

• People, Cultures and Communities

• The Natural World

Expressive Arts & Design:

• Creating with Materials

• Being Imaginative and Expressive

Our Topic is 'All About Me'.

During this topic we will learn all about ourselves, our family and our community. 

In the first few weeks of school we will talk about different feelings, including happy, sad, angry, scared and calm. We will use the story 'The Colour Monster' to help us understand these different feelings and things that make us feel these different emotions.
 

As the term goes on, we will start to draw our self-portraits, pictures of our family and what we would like to be when we grow up! 

Throughout this term, we will also learn about different people in our community that help us. These include: firefighters, nurses, police officers, lollipop people, vets, lifeguards, construction workers, paramedics and dentists. We will also be having lots of special visitors in our school, so please keep your eye out on here for some exciting photos!