Welcome to Reception's class page! 

Miss Carroll and Mrs Mutarah 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 our amazing Learning Support practitioners.

We would like to welcome you back after the half term 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 Spring term our new topic will be ‘I wonder how things grow?’ the children will be learning about different forms of growing such as how plants, people and animals grow. The children will explore life cycles and planting in the outdoors.

During our Phonics sessions children will continue to work through Basic 3 lessons. These will involve learning new diagraphs/triagraphs. 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 representing 9 and 10. The children will be completing lots of practical activities which involve finding different ways of representing the numbers and using part, part whole models. After that, the children will then move on 1 more/less and doubling.

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 Muddy Mondays. This is where we spend a whole afternoon learning and exploring in the outdoors.

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