reception
Welcome to Reception
In Reception we have two reception classes. Each class has a Teacher and a Teaching Assistant. We have a beautiful learning environment consisting of two classrooms joined together by sliding doors. During our direct teaching times children learn in their own classroom with their own teacher and during our independent learning times, we can open the doors to create a vast learning space where children are free to explore the learning opportunities in each classroom. We also have a fantastic outdoor learning space which children can access throughout the day.
Meet the staff
Class RW is taught by Mrs Walker and their Teaching Assistant is Mrs Wason
Class RO'C is taught by Mrs O'Connor and their Teaching Assistant is Mrs Hollinshead
Key Information for Reception classes:
PE is on a Monday and Wednesday. Children may come into school on these days wearing their PE kits.
Reading books are sent home every Friday. Please spend time with your child reading and record what they have read in their reading log. Please make sure that the books are returned the following Monday. We also send home a library book which your child has chosen on a Friday, please enjoy reading this book to your child.
Please send in a waterbottle each day with your child filled with water.
Children also need to bring in a red Barnfields book bag each day and we will put any letters or information you may need into this.
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SPRING TERM
In Reception we have been so excited to receive a special delivery all the way from Antarctica. An Emperor penguin has visited our classrooms and left an egg for us to look after. This has led to our learning all about Antarctica, where we will look at the differences between Antarctica and here, learn about the animals that live there, order the lifecycle of a penguin and begin to write sentences to write a letter and also to make our own book. We will explore watercolour paints in Art to create some Antarctic landscapes using cold colours, and we will learn how penguins move and huddle in PE. In phonics we will complete our learning of the phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs and in maths we will learn about numbers between 6 and 10, 3D shapes and measures including heights, lengths, mass and capacity.
Please see below for our Spring Term timetable.
Autumn 1 Phonics and Curriculum Meeting
We held a curriculum and phonics meeting in October explaining the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and our phonics scheme. Please see the powerpoint presentation slides below.