Welcome to Reception

Hello everyone and welcome to Mrs Morton's Reception class for 2026-2027!

Reception is part of our Early Years Unit, which we share alongside a nursery.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which is how we describe the time in your child's education between birth and age 5.

Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through 7 areas of learning and development.

• Communication and language
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world: and
• Expressive art and design

Maths

Children will take part in daily maths sessions following our Mastering Number programme, supported by the NCETM (National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics). We develop maths mastery through maths talk, practising skills they've been taught during play, and introducing number sense. 

Literacy

Our literacy activities are linked to various texts within our topic. We try to encourage the love of books and story telling.  Children are given lots of opportunities to develop writing and mark making. We will plan learning around children's interests and activities that are suited to your child's unique needs.  We use a 'Drawing Club' approach which supports children's literacy development by making reading, writing and storytelling exciting and meaningful. Through carefully chosen stories, discussions and creative drawing activities, children develop the skills needed to become confident readers and writers.

Phonics and Early Reading

Read Write Inc.

Children take part in daily phonic lessons.

We use Read Write Inc. to help children learn to read and write. Children learn the sounds that letters make and how to use these sounds to read words and spell them.

Phonics lessons are fun, active and matched to each child's learning stage. Children will bring home books that contain the sounds they have been learning in school so they can practise and build confidence.

As children become stronger readers, we help them to understand and talk about what they have read, including stories, characters and facts.

Our aim is for every child to become a happy, confident reader who enjoys books and learning. 📚✨

Children will read and share a book with an adult once a week in school.  It is an essential part of early years, so build sharing stories and books into your routine. We expect parents to fill in reading records to enable us to track how often they read at home. 

Homework

This is in the form of homework bingo, where children and parents learn together. Our expectation is that children choose and complete at least three activities a week. This can be uploaded onto our class dojo to share what your child has been busy with.

   

 

Snacks and lunches

Fresh fruit is provided daily for snack during the morning.    For lunch, children can bring a packed lunch from home or order one of our delicious school dinners. It would be helpful if parents could pre-order school lunches at home with their child. Children are also encouraged to bring a water bottle from home. Children have a lovely cup of milk in the afternoons.

It is very important to ensure our younger children are school ready and are independent when putting on coats, going to the toilet and eating or drinking.

PE

Days to remember:
Reception will do PE on a Wednesday morning and a Friday afternoon. In Early Years children can come to school wearing their PE kit, black jogging bottoms or leggings will be fine with their school jumper as it is getting colder).  We will work hard to be healthy movers and take part in the weekly large apparatus and daily bursts of go noodles and jump start Jonny exercises.

Wild Wednesday Adventures is our exciting outdoor learning session where children explore nature and learn about the world around them through hands-on experiences.

Children will have opportunities to:

• Explore the natural environment
• Develop curiosity and a love of nature
• Build confidence, independence and resilience
• Take part in outdoor play, investigations and creative activities
• Learn about seasonal changes, plants, animals and habitats

To ensure children can fully enjoy all weather conditions, please ensure your child has a pair of wellies in school.

We believe there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothing, and outdoor learning provides valuable opportunities for discovery, adventure and fun! 🌿🍂🌈🐞

Class Dojo:

Our class Dojo is our main channel of communication. We will put day-to-day information on there. 

Reminders:

• children should arrive at school at 8.45am and be collected at 3.10pm from the Early Years doors.
• Children should have a fresh bottle of water each day (this can be refilled)
• Children should bring a coat as we spend a lot of time outdoors
• Children need to bring their book bags with reading book/ records everyday

Our Reception class is supported by teaching assistant Miss Ewin.
 
If you have any concerns or queries, please come and talk to us.

Mrs Morton

• Alphablocks Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.

• The Numtums Join in with the Numtums and learn about numbers from 1 to 10.