Reception 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Reception 2024-25

Welcome back to our Reception class page which we hope continues to be useful to you throughout this year. We will update the page with notices of forthcoming events and general messages. It will also include the areas of learning that we will be covering and activities that you might want to try at home to help support your child's learning. 

Reception parents reading meeting 8/10/24

Thank you to all the families who were able to join us for the meeting. It was great to share our expectations of each other and to answer any questions parents had. If you could not join us the meeting presentation is at the bottom of this page and you can download and read it whenever you wish . If you would like to see the video about how to pronounce the phonemes (letter sounds) correctly please click here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtjFIvA_fs.

 Day to day information:                                                   

PE - This happens every Tuesday for RM (Miss May's class) and every Thursday for RJ (Mrs Jaworski's class). Children need to come into school wearing PE Kit (plain black/navy shorts or joggers/leggings and a plain white tshirt and school jumper or sweatshirt). Children also need trainers which are suitable for indoor and outdoor use. 

Snack & Drinks We provide the children with milk, water and fruit for snack. Please don't send in any food for your child (unless it is for their lunch). Your child can bring a bottle of water into school each day but NOT juice. We also have children in Reception with severe nut allergies - please DON'T send in any products that contain NUTS. If your child has grapes in their packed lunch please make sure they are cut in half as they can be a choking hazard. 

Clothing & Belongings Please label all items of clothing, footwear and belongings. We have 60 children in class and it is very difficult to find missing items, especially when they are not labelled.

Photographs Please send photos in from home so that we can share them in class, for instance when it is your child's turn to be a 'focus child' or if they take the Story or Knowledge box home.

Wellies The children use the outdoor area just as much as the indoor. As the weather gets wetter, the children need to wear wellies when playinging outside to avoid their shoes getting wet. Please send in a labelled pair of wellies that can be kept in school until the end of the year if your child not done so already.

Identity Box We will be sending home an 'Identity box' with one of our children each week. This is an opportunity to share and talk about things that are special to them. Please help your child to fill the box with items which represent and reflect their identity and send it in for us to share.

Story and Knowledge Boxes We have beautiful sharing boxes that contain high-quality texts and various treats inside. One child from each class will take a box home weekly and the idea is that you share the text together. Please support your child with their illustration/fact after reading the information book. We would love to see photos of your children reading these books at home and tell us any comments they make about what they've read. 

Our learning for Autumn 2 2024:           loading............

Maths

We will be 

Phonics

We follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds phonic scheme of work.

This Autumn half term we will be......

There are lots of fun phonic games online that are free and can also support learning. Some of the ones we use in school include PhonicsBloom, Phonics Play and Top Marks phonics.

Our Favourite Five

Books are at the centre of everything we do. We love books in Reception!  Each half-term we focus on five different texts to get to know them really well. We  read them many times together and act them out with story props. We also use story maps to help retell the story. You can find almost all of our favourite 5 stories on Youtube or why not visit Storyhouse in Chester to share the actual books and join in some of the free activities they offer.

Here are 'Our Favourite Five' books for this half term :-   

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RE -  Our Reception children will continue learning about the theme 'I am special' and thinking about special things, times and places. Mr Bengree and Miss Douglass will be leading carpet times and activities on Tuesday afternoons based upon this theme.                                                 

Open Door Policy

We love to communicate with YOU the parent. If you have any worries or questions please come and talk to us at the door, at drop off or collection time. 

Many thanks for your continued support. 

The Reception Team