Welcome to Reception!

 Reception class is taught by...

Mrs Chrystall (Wed-Fri) and Mrs Lovibond-Stephens (Mon-Tues).

Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Falber (Mon-Thurs) and Mrs Maydew (Friday).

Mrs Suik teaches Tuesday afternoons.

Mrs Kierle works (Mon-Friday mornings to support SEN)

Welcome to the Reception class page, here you will find pictures and information about what we get up to in Reception. It is a very important year transitioning into school and we are here to support your child through this ensuring that they are safe, happy and curious to learn. 

Our Catholic Value this term is Resilience
 

Snack and drink

Every day children will have a snack time in their daily routine. We can provide a snack however it changes as to what fruit is on offer. If you do wish to bring in a snack for your child from home please ensure that it is a healthy snack (such as fruit, vegetables, etc). Please make sure your child brings in a named water bottle that has a sports top style lid rather than screw top each school day. A reminder that we are a NUT FREE school. 

PE  

 Our PE sessions are on a Tuesday PM. Please ensure your PE kit is in class and we will send these home at Half terms unless requested. We continue to request your support to encourage independence of dressing at home, this is a part of one the ELGs.

Bookbags

Please ensure children are bringing their bookbag into school each day, with their reading books and reading diary inside. Please ensure no other items, especially toys, are not being brought into school.

Reading at home

Children will have started to take home a picture reading book and reading log book each week. Please use the log book to record when they have read and a short message of how they got on. Please ensure children have these in their book bags each school day as the days will differ as to when a child is read to. We will also be sending home a book from our school library which will give you a chance to read to spend some time enjoying books with your child. 

Please try and read with your child 5 times a week, this can be for 10 minutes whilst they settle for bed.

Homework

Each term you will receive a new Homework grid that you can view in your child's yellow homework book. The activities are linked to the different areas of the EYFS curriculum. Please try your best to complete an activity each week and highlight the grid by showing me which activity you have completed. I would love to see how you get on so I will collect books in each Wednesday and check them ready to be handed out again on the Friday.

Outdoor Learning/Welly Walks

Please ensure children have a named outdoor coat and wellies in school at all times. These can be stored on the welly racks outside the classrooms. If you need to have them over the weekend, please just say and we can then return them if necessary but ideally we would love to keep your wellies here at school.

For Children's Mental Health Week we focussed our learning on recognising emotions by using our bodies and facial expressions. In a small circle time session, we each had chance to talk as a group or with a friend next to us to talk about what makes us happy, sad, scared, angry etc. That then also led to conversations about how we can deal with those emotions. 

Lots of children in ourclass enjoy colouring so they created posters to take them home with the this year's theme of Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. We also listened to the story of Colour Monster which also talks about different emotions. Over the past few weeks, Mrs Chrystall has taken us outside to play various games that could be played on the playground at lunchtimes, such as What's the time Mr Wolf? Duck, duck, goose or the Farmer in the dell. The children love these and enjoying playing these with their peers too.