Class Rules

Reception Class information page 2024 - 2025

Mrs Ramsden

Miss Choi

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Welcome to Reception. We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning with you.Your teachers in Reception are Mrs Davies and Miss Choi.

Reception is a exciting time for both parents and children, the start of a school journey! During Reception we will work together to ensure that your child develops a love and enjoyment for learning. We want your child to grow into confident and happy learners - 'We love, learn and grow together' and that your child will 'wear their badge with pride'.

If you have any questions or queries, no matter how small, please don't hesistate to contact your child's teacher!

School begins at 8.40am and finishes at 3.10pm. It is of such importance to ensure your child arrives promptly and avoids being marked as late or missing key learning. Please work with us to ensure attendance and punctuality remain priorities.

Reading

Your child will bring home a reading for pleasure book each week. You could read this book to your child at bedtime or snuggle up on the sofa and read! This book is for you to read to them. Reception's day for changing their reading for pleasure book is a Monday. After you and your child have shared the book, please put it back in your child's book bag so that it is ready to be changed on a Monday.

Your children will be assigned a ebook, which will be changed each Monday. Please ensure this ebook is read online by your child at least 3 times a week and their reading record is signed every time that you read with them.

Remember, your child will recieve a certificate for child led reading as follows:

White = 25 reads

Bronze= 50 reads

Silver = 75 reads

Gold = 100 reads

Platinum = 125 reads

Platinum + = 150 reads

Phonics

Your child will start learning phonics almost as soon as they start school. They will massively benefit from your support at home when you read to them as well as reading their ebooks once books come home. This link to Little Wandle will provide you with some tips in order to support your child's learning. A particularly useful section is 'Books Coming Home', but it is all really useful. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabNurseryRhymes-Downloads

We are trying to become a more eco-friendly school, and therefore we will not be sending weekly phonic sentences and tricky words home. Instead they will be posted on our class page! Each Friday you will find the phonic sentences and tricky words your child has learnt during the week! Happy reading!

Class rules

In Reception, we work hard collaboratively to always endeavour to follow our class rules. These are;

to use kinds hands and feet
to be kind and caring
to put our hand up when we wish to say something
to always walk around school

Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Your child needs to bring a PE kit in a drawstring bag as we do not have room for rucksacks on our pegs. PE kits consist of white shorts, a blue school T-shirt and pumps or trainers. Please try to avoid lace up trainers unless your child is already able to tie them independently. If it is cooler, your child can also wear their school jumper and navy or black leggings or joggers.

Please ensure all clothes are labelled (including vests)as clothes easily get mixed up as your child starts to learn to dress and undress independently and has to organise their own belongings. Belongings cannot be returned if they are not named.

Literacy

This term your child will be looking at two books for Literacy. The first book we will be looking at is Peace at Last by Jill Murphy. This story will be the first Literacy book your child is looking at in Reception. This story will give your children the opportunity to engage in story times and be involved with the retelling of the story in different ways. They will be orally retelling the story using new vocabulary learnt throughout each lesson. The new vocabulary that your child will be learning, will support the beginning of their reading journey. Your child will use their knowledge of this book to engage in sequencing, labelling and drawing activities.

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The second book your child will be looking at this term is The Three Little Pigs by Mara Alperin. This book will further support your child’s start in Reception where your child will develop their understanding around engaging in different story times, whilst developing their familiarity and knowledge about it. Your child will be using a wider range of vocabulary, where they can talk about the story to build familiarity and understanding, whilst also continuing to develop their listening skills and why listening is important. Throughout this book your child will be practicing to use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing, applying what they have learnt during their phonics sessions.

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Topic

Currently we are looking at different traditional tales in Reception. We are looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. Your child will be working towards re-telling and acting out each story as well as experiencing different activities linked to their new topic.

What to bring to school

A water bottle will need to be brought to school everyday filled with water only. This item must please be named. Your children will be offered milk at snack time but will have access to their water bottles throughout the day.

A sun hat or raincoat will be required depending on the weather. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed approrpaitely for the weather that day. Please apply sun cream on your child before they come to school as we are unable to put it on for them.

You can send a pair of wellies into school which can stay on our wellie rack if you would like to. Please make sure these are named. If you don't have spare wellies, please ensure on wet days your child comes to school in wellies as we try to go outside everyday and wellies allow the children more freedom to play when it's wet.

Uniform

Please label every item of uniform your child comes to school in, especially cardigans and jumpers and check regularly as they often fade in the wash if it has been written on in pen. Please include coats and shoes in your labelling as the children often have the same ones as a friends.