Welcome to Reception!
Here you will find all the key information you will need for this term.
Remember to look on Tapestry for further updates and a deeper insight to your child’s individual learning journey.
Our Reception Staff
Mrs Booth – Class Teacher
Miss Halfpenny – Teaching Assistant
Life in Reception
In Reception, children enjoy going on lots of adventures through the 7 areas of learning. Their day is spent learning, discovering and exploring both indoors and outdoors through adult directed and independent learning adventures.
We are excited to introduce CUSP (Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership) into our EYFS curriculum! Through engaging and exciting structured stories, we will inspire children’s curiosity, spark their imaginations and bring learning to life. These carefully planned stories provide meaningful opportunities to explore and develop skills across all seven areas of learning and development, supporting children to build knowledge, develop language and grow in confidence as enthusiastic, independent learners.
We update the children’s learning on Tapestry, please ensure you check in regularly to see what adventure your child has been on.
We also use Class Dojo for any important announcements or events to keep our parents updated.
Early Reading: Monster Phonics
In Reception, phonics is delivered daily through our chosen phonic scheme, Monster Phonics.
In Autumn term, Reception children will learn phase 2 letter sounds. They will begin to write the correct graphemes to represent letters and will practise reading CVC words. Phase 1 skills learnt within Nursery are embedded in every phonics lesson and throughout day-to-day activities within Reception.
Please see the parent guide for more information about how to support your child with phonics at home.
Home Reading
Our Reception children are now bringing home reading books! Children will read with a member of staff in school on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They will bring home their reading book on a Wednesday to read twice at home, before returning on a Friday morning.
If we have a reading superstar who has read five times in a week, they will be entered into our ‘Reading Raffle’ draw during our Celebration Assembly on a Friday.
In Reception, Mrs Booth and Miss Halfpenny also give ClassDojo points and extra raffle tickets our for any super reading spotted in class, as we want to encourage children to read as much as possible in Reception!
Class Documents
Curriculum Overview
Useful Websites
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/