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Reception

In Reception, we cultivate a love of learning for life. Our curriculum is planned to provide balanced and relevant experiences for each individual child. We are passionate about outdoor learning and problem solving. It is important that our children feel safe to be risk takers as they approach their learning during the day.

Our teachers encourage us to challenge ourselves once we have built confidence in newly taught skills. We are then encouraged to use these skills in our free play to extend and consolidate our learning.

Each week we have new 'Rainbow Challenges,' with activities we need to complete independently. They support our physical development, phonics, writing and mathematical development. Our progress and work is recorded in a number of ways such as in our writing books, ‘Our Learning Journey’ scrap book and ‘Seesaw’.

Early Years is extremely busy and fantastic fun. Keep up to date with us by following our blog.

The Reception team is

  • R Hepworth – Mrs Wise, Mrs Summers and Miss Love
  • R Van Gogh – Miss Valentine and Mrs Quinn
  • R Kandinsky – Mrs Coleman, Mrs Spina and Mrs Dempsey

We are lucky to be supported by our HLTA, Miss Gill.

Our P.E day is Friday morning. May we remind you to ensure that all your child’s kit is clearly labelled.

Please make sure that you bring your library book to school each Friday to be changed.

What_to_expect_in_the_Early_Years.pdf

Schools Then & Now

This term the children in Reception have enjoyed learning about schools in the past. We spent some time looking at photographs of our school which was built fairly recently in 2007 and compared it with local primary school Kingsthorpe Grove Primary which was built in 1906, over 100 years ago. 

The children enjoyed looking at old black and white photographs and noticed lots of differences about schools in the past...

"There are no toys in their classroom."

"The children are all sitting at their own desk."

"They do not have an interactive screen in their class like we do."

We invited families to share old school photos and memories and we were overwhelmed with the response! The children loved looking at the photographs of their grandparents and parents at school and this lead to lots of discussions.

"Some of the children are not wearing school uniform like we do."

"They have sports day just like we do today!"

"In the past they had milk in glass bottles, we have milk in cartons."

"The children are writing on blackboards with chalk, we write with pencils and paper."

The children enjoyed sequencing these photographs on a timeline from those from the past and those nearer to the present.

We were also lucky enough to have a special session with Ethan's Grandparents who kindly offered to share their school memories. The children absolutely loved listening to their memories and looking at the fabulous photographs! Thank you!

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Reception Curriculum

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Recent Comments

What a super experience! I'm sure that there are some budding officers amongst you! Mrs White :-)...
Jasmine enjoyed doing the assembly ☺
Yummy xx looks like they had a great day
A fantastic video! Well done reception for being super sporty stars:-)??
Wow what fantastic creations! Well done everyone

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