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At the heart of everything is a personalised approach to each unique individual as part of our Christian Community. The strong family ethos ensures that all children and staff feel valued, respected and grow in self-confidence. Enthusiastic and caring staff with high expectations, demonstrate care of the whole child. Through God’s guidance we encourage each and every child to 'let their light shine.'

Welcome to Reception!

Mrs Armitage is your class teacher on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Mrs Hunt will be teaching on a Thursday and a Friday. Our teaching assistant is Miss Clark.

Starting school is an exciting time: a time of new experiences, new friends and new places. Our school days provide a secure environment where your child can play, explore, experiment, investigate and learn. We encourage the children to acquire skills and knowledge through first-hand experience, gaining a sound understanding of the world around them. We aim to provide a challenging and fun learning environment, both indoors and outdoors, for children to ignite self-curiosity and nurture a life-long love of learning!

Our topic for Summer 2 is  - The Sea Saw

In Summer 2 our Reception class, we will be diving into an exciting new topic all about the seaside!

We’ll be reading the beautiful picture book The Sea Saw by Tom Percival. This story follows a little girl who loses her beloved teddy bear at the beach. As the years pass, the sea carefully looks after the teddy, carrying it on a long and magical journey before finally reuniting it with the girl, who was by then an old lady.

Using The Sea Saw as our starting point, we’ll also explore the concept of time and change. We'll learn about the seaside as it is today and compare it to how it looked in the past. We’ll look at old photographs and artefacts to help us spot what has changed and what has stayed the same.

We’ll also be focusing on toys from the past and present. Just like the teddy in the story, we’ll think about how toys hold memories and change over time. We’ll look at different kinds of toys children used to play with in the past and compare them with the ones we enjoy today. This story will help us explore the question: What might the sea see? We’ll use our imaginations to think about the magical and mysterious things hidden beneath the waves, like pirates, mermaids, sunken ships, and treasure!

P.E

Reception will have their PE lesson on a Wednesday with Mr Friel. Please make sure that your child wears their full P.E. kit on Wednesday.                                                               

Forest School will be held every Thursday afternoon with Mr Robinson

Reading is at the heart of reception. Children learn to read in a story-rich environment.  We share books every day and learn about the world through a range of fiction and non-fiction books. In the autumn term, reception will be taught set 1 sounds of the Read Write Inc programme. Read Write Inc (RWI) is a phonics programme which helps all children learn to read fluently and at speed so they can focus on developing their skills in comprehension, vocabulary and spelling. Phonic sessions will be taught at 10.30-11.00 daily. Please listen to your child read at least five times a week and write in their reading record after every read. Please see our recommened Reception reads in the files, for books to share with your child.

The words below are an example of "red words" these are words that cannot be sounded out and have to be memorised. We will send home a red word bookmark as soon as your child starts red books, please help your child to learn to read and write these words. A new red word bookmark wil be sent home every time your child changes book levels. Please see the red word power point in the files, this shows all the red words your child will need to know for each level of the Read Write Inc reading Scheme. 

Maths

We aim to introduce the children to maths through the use of concrete, pictorial, abstract methods to give children a deeper understanding of how mathematics works.  

The only way to achieve mastery is to build upon a solid foundation of conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. To ensure a deep level of understanding, it is necessary to move through the curriculum at a different pace to the method used in previous years. 

The teaching of mathematics in the Foundation Stage consists of daily maths workshops that focus on specific areas of the subject. These sessions focus on counting, using number names in the correct order and recognising numbers in the environment. The children learn through a range of practical contexts using images, objects, stories, rhymes and songs to engage and promote the importance of number. The children begin to develop early problem-solving skills to encourage them to use maths outside of the classroom. In Reception, Maths teaching is based on the EYFS curriculum and supported by the use of White Rose 'Mastery Maths' resources.

In Summer 2, we will be learning to work with numbers to 20 and beyond. We will practise adding and taking away, as well as exploring sharing, grouping, and doubles. We will also be learning about shapes, spotting 2D shapes within 3D objects and creating repeating patterns.

Purple Mash/ Mini Mash

Mini Mash is the safe online space for children in the Early Years to learn, create and explore. There are seven learning areas, in each area you’ll find a range of engaging content and tools that are perfect for developing your child's skills accross the Early Years curriculum.  Logins will be kept inside your child's reading record.

Our Class Charter

As a rights respecting school, one of the first activities completed in September is our Class Charter. The children choose a number of articles which they feel must be met at school. It is then discussed how the adults (duty bearers) and the pupils (rights holders) in school ensure that these rights are met. Have a look at part of our class charter below.