Welcome to Reception Class
Your class teacher is Miss Outram. Your Teaching Assistants are Miss Latz, Mrs Senior and Miss Tait
We are here to help you and your children as they settle in, work through the Reception year and become confident learners.
We have a Big Question in each class. Our Big Question is;
How can I be a positive member of my class?
See more below…
This is what our classroom looks like…
…and some of the things we do
Our early years provision provides a calm, nurturing and engaging environment for all children to learn. Currently, both our Nursery and Reception class are sharing a classroom, and the continuous provision has been carefully selected to create a bespoke learning environment for every child to thrive. Here are some pictures of what our classroom looks like.
Reception PE days are Monday and Thursday.
Children need to come to school in their PE kit on this day.
Our P.E coach Mr. J teaches the children to negotiate spaces, move in different ways and carefully follow instructions – all whilst having lots of fun!
Our class prayer time
Our Christian ethos is developed through our class prayer space, our class prayers and the Christian values we teach throughout school alongside our positive learning behaviours.
Reading in Reception
Children can choose to read a story in our cosy reading snug. We have story telling puppets to encourage the children to retell the story to each other.
Every 2 weeks we have a focus story, to which our planning has a strong links. This helps bring the story to life through carefully planned activities which follow our Early Years skills progression.
Reception children are taught to read and write through Read Write Inc. This is a systematic programme for learning letter sounds. Children are taught the skills needed for blending the sounds together to make words.
Fred the frog teaches us to Fred Talk the words and blend the sounds together.
20-30 minute sessions occur daily, which the children enjoy fully participating in and make quick progress.
How can I be a positive member of my class?
…helps the children to:
- play and work co-operatively together
- help, support and care for each other
- look after the environments around them
- develop the skills needed for future learning
- build on the skills already learn
Reception Long term Plan
Click on the link to see what we teach term by term over the year and how it reflects the new
Knowledge organisers
These are our knowledge organisers. They break down the learning to explicitly show what we expect children to learn each half term…
Knowledge Organisers are sent home to parents each half term to inform parents of our topics and to suggest ideas for learning at home.
This learning happens all year round
Outdoor Learning
We like to spend a lot of our time outdoors. The children learn about the natural world, observing similarities and differences and they learn to care about living things.
Children describe what they hear, see and feel whilst outside. They have the freedom to build and move around without the restrictions of being indoors.
Useful Information
- Children can choose to be indoors or outdoors throughout the day. It is important that they always bring a coat so that they can play out when they want to.
- Please ensure that all clothing is named.
- Be prepared – children will take part in some messy activities. We do provide aprons but sometimes clothes do get dirty.
- Children can go to the toilet as and when they need to go, but accidents do sometimes happen- we have spare clothes for such incidents. (any donations of knickers and undies would be welcomed)
- All children have their own coat peg and drawer. Please encourage your child to find their own peg by looking for their name and then they will know where to find their coat when they need it.
- Children can put any work to go home in their drawer, to collect at the end of the day.