St Joseph'sCatholic Primary & Nursery School
Reception
Welcome to Reception!
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.
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.
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.
Reception Homework Grid
World Book Day
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.
Children's Mental Health week
