Reception

Welcome to Reception! 

Key Information

Class teachers:

RMH - Mrs Mahmood and Miss Hussain and the class is supported by Mrs Akhlaq and Mrs Kauser.

RA - Miss Aston and the class is supported by Mrs Buchan and Miss Bi.

Assistant Head Teacher for EYFS is Mrs Turner.

The School Day

Our day starts at 8:40am for start of the day activities.

It is important that all children arrive on time into class. 

A typical day in Reception 

8:40 - 8:55  - Start of the day activities such as name writing and fine motor activities

9:00 – 9.30 - Phonics

9.30 - 9.45 - Literacy focus

10.00- 11.00- Child initiated learning indoors and outdoors

11.00 - 11.30 – Dough Disco and Handwriting

11.30 - 12.15 - Dinner Time 

12.15 - 12:35 - Maths focus

12.35- 2.20 - Child initiated learning indoors and outdoors

2.20 - 2.40 - Snack time and phonics keep up

2.40-2.55- Story and rhyme time

3.00 - Home time 

On Wednesday mornings we have PE and forest school. The children can come to school in their PE kits, remember to bring their warm coats and wellies!

Library

Children will be changing their library book every Friday.

Reading Passport books

Children will be changing their passport book every Friday.

Home readers books

We would encourage everyone to read as much as they can at home as confidence in reading helps with reading comprehension and with writing skills. Every child has been given a yellow reading journal where they need to write the books they are reading at home. Please write a comment about their reading and keep the journal in the book bag during the day so the class teacher can acknowledge what they have read.

Reading Journals and reading books are due back in every Monday

Please share a book with your child every night.

Our Classrooms

We hope to offer the children an exciting and interesting environment to explore freely. We provide lots of collections of resources in baskets for the children to independently access. We aim to provide opportunities for children to explore their own ideas and learn through play with them being independent in their choices allowing child-led inquiry to take place.

Outdoor Learning

We believe experiences outdoors are important for children's development and learning.

We provide the opportunity for children to explore through play in the outdoor environment which uses the space and nature that we have. We provide opportunities for developing skills in communication, reading, writing, maths and problem solving through outdoor learning.

There are a variety of resources available to the children which encourage risk taking and help support physical development such as large construction blocks, wooden planks and crates.