Welcome to Reception

Class Teacher- Mrs Jones (Assistant Head)

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Waugh

Curriculum: Early Years Foundation Stage

  * Autumn 1 - Marvellous Me

  * Autumn 2 - Paws, Jaws and Claws/Celebrations

  * Spring 1 - Superheroes

  * Spring 2 - Its a Bug's Life

  * Summer 1 - Under the Sea

  * Summer 2 - Sing a Rainbow

Children follow the EYFS Framework in Nursery and Reception. Early Years learning concentrates on 7 areas split between prime and specific areas of learning.

The prime areas of learning are:

• Communication and language
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development

The specific areas of learning are:

• English
• Mathematics
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design

The Early Years Framework sets out the seven areas of learning and what children should be able to do by the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage (the early learning goals).

A child’s individual learning characteristics determine the way they respond to both the teaching and learning taking place within the provision.  The three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are:

• playing and exploring - children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’;
• active learning - children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements; and
• creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things.