Reception 2024 - 2025
Welcome to RECEPTION!
Your teachers this year are:
Mrs Hodgkiss and Miss Williams
supported by
Mrs Stockley, Mrs Pritchard and Mrs Khan
Reception Drop Off and Pick Up are at the back car park gate
Monday - Friday Start Time: 8:40am (gates will close at 8::50am)
Monday - Thursday Finish Time: 3:30pm
Friday Finsh time : 1.30pm
Our Topics:
Half Term 1 - Ourselves
Half Term 2: Celebrations
HalfTerm 3: Transport and Travel
Half Term 4: Growth and Lifecycles
Half Term 5: Our Planet
Half Term 6: Superheroes
Welcome to Reception!
This half term our Topic is 'Ourselves' . We will look at several books to help us with our topic, including: Colour Monster, Funnybones, and The Everywhere Bear. We will look at ourselves, our bodies, senses and feelings. We we discuss our families and local community too.
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In Numeracy, we will be focusing on matching and sorting objects, comparing quantities, exploring patterns and comparing size, weight and capacity.
School Readiness
This half term, to support the transition to Reception from Nursery, we will be learning to explore our new classroom, learning the rules and routines of the school and teaching children to play collaboratively, understandng the importance of turn taking, sharing and talk within their play.
Please help your child get ready for school by helping them to practise some independence skills at home, such as filling a cup with water from the tap, taking jumpers and coats on and off themselves and using the toilet and washing hands independently. For more information refer to the school readiness guide below.
We reccommend that children bring a spare change of clothes to school in case of any toileting / water play accidents that may happen through the day.
Reading
In the first few weeks we will send children home with a library book. This book is to be enjoyed at home – the children are not expected to read the words, but they can practise telling the story using the pictures in the book. The children will be able to change this book weekly.
When the children are ready, we will begin to send home words and books ncluding the sounds that your child has been learning in school. Please support your child reading these words daily, you will have a reading record, please record each time you read with your child. We will record when we read and change books.
Useful Links:
Phonics Explained - A guide for parents
The EYFS Framework
Throughout Nursery and Reception, we deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. We use this to teach each child, considering their level of development and any additional needs.
A copy of this can be viewed here: https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/eyfs-statutory-framework/
Staff are always on hand to discuss your child’s development and give advice or practical support on how to encourage learning at home as well as at school! We are happy to help!
Please ensure you have joined Class Dojo so you can keep up to date with announcements and school information. Ask your child's teacher if you do not have a log on.
