Welcome to Reception!
Teacher – Miss Cooper
Teaching Assistant – Mrs Woodhouse
In Reception, your children will spend their days exploring the various areas of provision in our classroom and in Percy’s Park outdoors, as well as making new friends and building upon existing friendships. We work together through the Early Years curriculum to learn new skills, share new experiences and have lots of fun!
View our Autumn 1 & 2 Parent Planners here to see what your child will be learning this term
Here are some reminders about our routines and expectations:
Water Bottles- Your child will need to bring a labelled water bottle to school every day which they will have constant access to in the classroom. Water bottles will be refilled as necessary and returned home each evening.
Reading– Children will be issued with their first reading book when phonics teaching has commenced following our initial settling and assessment period. We hear the children read at least once a week and then they take the book home. Please share this book at least 4/5 times each week and leave us a comment to let us know how your child has done or what you have discussed. Books are changed throughout the week; we ask that you send your child’s book into school every day as their reading day in school may be subject to change.
Spelling– As your child becomes more confident with their literacy skills, we will send home some ‘harder to read or spell (tricky) words.’ These words are tricky because children cannot use their phonic knowledge to sound them out – they just need to learn to read and write them independently. We will check in regularly with the children to see if they are ready for their next set of tricky words.
Homework– Your child will be given a small challenge to take home each week – this might be linked to English, phonics, maths, RE or another area we have been working on in class. It will be sent home in your child’s homework book on a Friday to be returned on a Monday. It would be a great help if you could make a comment on the homework to let us know how your child found the challenge and how much support they needed.
Tapestry– We will be using Tapestry to document ‘wow’ moments throughout the week. Tapestry is a fantastic tool that allows us to capture and assess children’s learning moments, and for you to share in their time at school. We would ask that you do not send us any messages via Tapestry – rather, please email the school office, telephone or visit us with any queries. This is because we might not see your message on Tapestry as promptly as we would like.
You are most welcome to come to us with any questions or queries you might have about your child or school.
Our door is open each morning; we would ask that you visit us before 8.40am so that we can ensure we are ready for the children.
We are so excited to spend this year supporting your children to learn, play, explore and develop new skills.
Thank you for your support,
Miss Cooper and Mrs Woodhouse
We love learning through play – take a look below at some of things we have been busy doing recently: