Welcome to Reception

Class Teacher- Mrs Jones

(Assistant Head & EYFS Lead)

Class Teaching Assistant - Mrs Waugh

HLTA - Miss Whittle

Welcome to Reception 2024/25

This page will be updated regularly so that you can see key events and your child's learning journey. Below is the 'Welcome to Reception' slides with all the information shared at the start of the year. It is full of useful information for your reference. Please contact us via Class Dojo if you have any further questions!

Many thanks

Mrs Jones, Mrs Waugh & Miss Whittle

Curriculum: Early Years Foundation Stage

  * Autumn 1 - Marvellous Me

  * Autumn 2 - Paws, Jaws and Claws/Celebrations

  * Spring 1 - Our Wonderful World

  * Spring 2 - Under the Sea

  * Summer 1 - To Infinity and Beyond!

  * 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.