Reception Class Staff

Mrs Loquens – Class Teacher 

Mrs Nicholds -Trainor – Teacher Cover-  Tuesday 

Miss Barrett- Teaching Assistant – Everyday (except Wednesday afternoon)

Miss Singleton – Teaching Assistant – Tuesday

Mrs Carroll – Teaching Assistant – Monday morning, Wednesday afternoon and Thursday all day.

Thank you for visiting our class page. On here, you can find information about our topics, P.E. lessons, what you can do at home to help and useful websites . You can also find some useful documents as well as being able to see updates about our learning.

About Reception class – Important Information for Parents

Topics

Autumn 1 – My Family and Me

Autumn 2 – Starry Night

Spring 1 – Winter

Spring 2 – Life Cycles

Summer 1 – Animals Around the World

Summer 2 – Journeys

Medium Term Plan

Knowledge Organiser

Timetable

PE

Reception will have P.E. every Monday and Tuesday. Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct kit, which is a school P.E. t-shirt, plain black shorts or plain black jogging bottoms and trainers on these days. 

Phonics

Below, you will find a copy of the actions for each of the sounds in Phases 2 & 3, the letter formation patters (rhymes) we say to support children’s formation of each letter when writing and the ‘families’ that these letters are put into for our handwriting practice. 

The family groups consist of letters which use the same writing shapes as a basis to form each letter in that group.

Our Outdoor Learning Environment

What you can do to help at home

It is really important that we work together to follow, guide and support your child’s development of learning. Please do share with us anything new that your child is doing at home, anything you think they need support with and also any special moments.You can do this by using your ‘Tapestry’ app. 

Just a few other things you can do to support your child’s learning and development at home are:

• Allow your child to be as independent as possible. Can they get themselves dressed? Can they put their shoes on? Can they do up the zips or buttons on their coats? It is important to give them time to practice.
• Each day, share a story together and ask your child questions about what they have read, to check how well they’ve understood the story. 
• Practise new phonics sounds and tricky words that we send out to you via Tapestry.
• Choose rhyming stories to read like ‘What the ladybird hear’, ‘Fox socks’ or ‘Room on a Broom’.  If you read the same rhyming story often then your child will eventually join in.
• Take some quality time to talk to each other. 
• Make some special time together to have fun. This could be playing a board game, building something out of lego, cooking, acting out a story with teddies/mini figures, painting a picture, making something out of recycled materials, making some play dough or dancing. 
• Sing nursery rhymes together like: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I caught a fish alive or Five little monkeys, Humpty Dumpty. 

Useful Websites