Welcome to Reception

Mrs Mutarah and Miss Carroll are the Reception teachers and are assisted by Mrs Miss Hulstone, who is our fantastic Early Years Practitioner and Miss Thorpe and Miss Aktar, who are amazing Learning Support practitioners.

Dear parents and carers, 

We would like to welcome you back after the Christmas break and hope you enjoyed your time off together. 

In Reception, we learn alongside the Development Matters National Curriculum for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage. Throughout all of our work, the staff in Reception will be assessing the children against the objectives outlined within this document and also use it to ensure that all individual needs are being met. 

In Reception, children will have daily Phonics (taught through Supersonic Phonic Friends), Maths and Literacy session (taught through The Write Stuff) in the morning and Topic sessions during the afternoon. Children are introduced to their new learning challenges in small groups. This is then further developed through child-initiated learning that takes place throughout the day. Learning is promoted in both the indoor and outdoor environment.

During the second part of the autumn term our new topic will be ‘I wonder who lives on a farm?’ and ‘I wonder if farms were different in the past?’ First, we will be learning about farms and foods grown. In the second part of the half term we will be looking at different aspects of the past and present on a farm.

During our Phonics sessions children will start to learn Basic 3 lessons. These will involve learning new diagraphs. The children will be working on recognising these new phonemes and will also practise blending them to read words. The children will also be taught tricky words, which are words the children can not segment and blend, but they just have to know.

In Maths children will be learning all about the composition of 6,7,8. The children will be completing lots of practical activities which involve finding different ways of making the numbers and using part, part whole models. After that, the children will then move on to length, height and time.

During RE the children will be looking at different stories and finding out why they are special.

This half term the children will be taking part in PE every Thursday with Mrs Finch, focusing on dance.

Please ensure the children bring to school appropriate clothing such as a puddle suit (see our uniform requirements for more information) jogging bottoms and wellies/walking boots. If you need further information regarding clothing please contact a member of the Reception team. 

Thank you,

Reception team