Reception 2023 - 2024

Miss Ingman

Mrs Atherton

Welcome to Reception!

Mrs Atherton (Cygnets Class) Miss Ingman (Goslings Class)

Our Spring Topic is called...

Spring 1- What are your superpowers?

Spring 2 - Is all treasure gold?

During the first spring term, children will be exploring lots of different themes within our provision, including: learning about the season of winter, finding out about lunar new year and exploring superheroes and real life heroes through our topic ’What are your superpowers?’ We will be looking at the people who helps us and will be welcoming a fire fighter, a doctor, a nurse and a teacher to our school to learn all about their job. In English our core text will be 'Juniper Jupiter' and we will be learning the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider.

During the second half of spring term, children will be exploring different themes within our provision, including learning about why some people celebrate Easter, learning about the season of Spring and exploring all about pirates in our topic 'Is all treasure gold?' We will also be looking at where we live and comparing the United Kingdom to another island. In English our core text will be 'The Story of Pirate Tom,' and an information text all about pirates.

Children will take part in daily phonics sessions using the Floppy Phonics scheme.

In maths, we shall be focusing on numbers to 5 by subitising, finding one more and one less and also finding different ways of making these numbers by adding two smaller parts together to make one whole number.

We use the Development Matters guidance document to plan our curriculum. Please click here for Development Matters.

Children need to come dressed in their PE kit every Friday.

Celebration Assembly

Celebration Assembly will be on Friday at 9 am, every third week. You will get a message from school if your child is receiving a reward.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday. This will be uploaded on Tapestry every Friday, along with the weekly snapshots.

Tapestry

Each week you will be able to see photographs of your child's learning on Tapestry.

Important Dates

Stay and Play dates

Wednesday 28th February, drop off till 10am —Gosling’s stay and play
Wednesday 6th March, drop off till 10am—Cygnet’s stay and play
Thursday 2nd May, time tbc—Gosling’s stay and play
Thursday 9th May, time tbc —Cygnet’s stay and play
Wednesday 12th June, time tbc—Cygnet’s stay and play
Wednesday 19th June, time tbc —Gosling’s stay and play

If you need to get in touch with a member of the Reception team, please phone or email the school office, speak to one of us when you collect your child or send us a message via Tapestry.