Welcome to Reception
Welcome back to all the children and families. We hope you have had a lovely summer
and are ready for an exciting year. We have lots of exciting topics and activities
planned for the children.
We hope all the children have a fantastic time with us.
Topics this half term.
Our topic this term is ‘All about me.’ We will be looking at ourselves, how different and
unique we all are and how we can be friends with each other.
The books we will be reading are ‘Dogs’ and ‘Only one you.’
The children will begin to take part in Missions with Commando Glen, helping to rescue
Incey Wincey or help Humpty Dumpty.
Morning Activities and Attendance
Every morning in Reception we invite parents into class to help support your children
with name writing and other fine motor activities. Our doors open at 8:50 and close at
9:05. Any children that arrive after this time will have to go to the main office and
wait with their parents until staff are able to collect them. This is to help minimise
disruptions during learning time.
If you would like any more information on our attendance policy, please speak to one of
the class teachers.
Meet the team
Reception 1 - Mrs Carter and Miss Jones
Reception 2 - Miss Wardle and Mrs Ogden
Reception 3 - Miss Horsfall and Miss Gardner
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Home Learning
To help support your child at home, we encourage parents to read with their child daily!
This could be something as simple as a shopping list, a short story or even a comic. By
reading daily at home, this will support your child in understanding how sentences are
structured, as well as getting them to recognise key words before being able to write
them. Daily reading is also a great way to support early writing too.
For more information, please visit the link below -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/primary_support/
Another excellent way to support your child at home, is by practising their key words.
Reception children are given 100 high frequency words, most commonly used throughout
life and children are encouraged to recognise these by sight throughout the reception
year. Helping your child learn these words by sight will support your child’s reading and
writing skills throughout their learning journey.
If you misplace this list or need ideas on ways to make learning keywords fun, please
speak to the class teachers who will be more than happy to help and support.
We know this year is going to be full of success stories and children excelling with
their learning.
If you do have any concerns or need more information, please speak to one of the class
teachers who will be happy to help.
Here’s to a great year!
- The Reception Team.