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This page is where you will find out lots of useful information about all the learning and fun we are having in Reception. Throughout the Reception Year your child will partake in an ambitious curriculum which is designed in a sequential way to ensure progress towards our end of year curricular goals.
We use Tapestry to keep you up to date with your child's learning. Tapestry is an on-line system which allows us to create an individual Learning journey for every child in Reception. We can add comments, notes, photographs and videos of your child and then link these to the Early Years Curriculum. It can be accessed via the internet or downloaded as an app.
There are two Reception classes.
The staff in this class are Mr Taplin, Mrs Uminska, Mrs Trussler and Ms Faheem.
My name is Mr Taplin and I am a Reception class teacher
and also the Early Years Lead.
Key information:
How to support your child at home:
Please read daily and sign the yellow reading records. Return the reading records and completed books to your class teacher the following school day.
There are six key areas of early mathematics learning, which provide a platform for everything children will encounter as they progress through their maths learning at primary school, and beyond:
These areas form the fundamental mathematical basis of a CBeebies series of five-minute animated programmes called Numberblocks. We use these and the NCETM materials to draw out and build on the maths embedded in the stories contained in each episode.
Useful websites:
Maths
Topmarks: Lots of great Maths games.
Numberblocks: Sing along and learn all about numbers with the Numberblocks!
Literacy
Oxford Owl: Here you will find free e-books that match your book band colour. Choose the correct book band and read a book every day.
Alphablocks: Watch as the letters of the alphabet tell stories and make words using phonics. Play the learning game, watch clips and print colouring pages.
Apps for EYFS:
Curriculum Information
The curriculum in Reception is delivered through a balance of adult led and child led learning.
It incorporates everything we want the children to experience, learn and be able to do. Meeting all the requirements of the educational programmes in the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the flexibility to allow us to respond quickly to children’s new interests and needs.
Religious Education and Worship
We learn about the importance of prayer and pray throughout the school day. Reception also partake in whole school acts of Worship.
Literacy
Our school uses ‘Talk for Writing’ to help children develop their skills in talking about and writing stories. Talk for Writing starts with enjoying and sharing stories. Through regular reading we want children to build up an extensive rich vocabulary for use in their own writing. Each half term we focus on a particular story. The children will hear the story several times and we will explore the story in a variety of ways and explore new vocabulary.
Phonics
Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as Guided Reading and Shared Reading to help children develop all the other vital reading skills and hopefully give them a real love of reading.
Our school uses the Read Write Inc. programme to get children off to a flying start with their English. RWI is a method of learning based upon letter sounds and phonics, and we use it to aid children in their reading and writing. for Phonics. It provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.
Reading
When using RWI to read the children will:
Writing
When using RWI to write the children will:
Talking
When using RWI the children will also work in pairs:
Summer Term 2024
Welcome back for Summer Term. We hope you had a very Happy Easter!
We are starting the term with a focus on SPACE.
In Literacy, our learning will be based around the text Aliens Love Underpants by Clare Freedman and Ben Cort.
As part of our Religious Education, we will be following on from our work on Holy Week and will be learning about the Easter Story.
Class updates and reminders:
World Book Day 2024
We have had a wonderful day celebrating reading in Reception.
Remember to spend your £1 book voucher.
Ducks
We were very lucky to have 4 of our duck eggs hatch this year. They enjoyed being fed, cuddled and cared for by Reception.
Our ducks have now left us and are safely settled in their new home. Thank you to everyone in Reception for taking such good care of them.
Autumn | Spring | Summer Communication
Medium Term Plans
Tapestry
Our School Prayers