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Reception

WELCOME TO RECEPTION!

The Reception team, Miss Woodford, Mrs Stringer, Miss Hall, Miss Smith, Miss Texeira and Miss Sells are really looking forward to the upcoming year.

Meet the Team


Miss Woodford -
EYFS Lead / RAW Teacher

Mrs Stringer RJS Teacher


Miss Hall - RCH Teacher
 


Miss Smith - RAW HLTA

Miss Sells - RJS Teaching Assistant

Miss Teixeira - RCH Teaching Assistant
                                                                          
 
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Click here to find out information about the Autumn term.

 

 

Here you will find information about the school day, home learning, resources and useful websites.

Below are some of the daily activities in Reception

Fiddly Fingers-Fine and Gross Motor Activies

Little Wandle Phonics

Word Time-Word games, reading and fine and gross motor activities

 Snack-this provided by the school

Drawing Club

Adventure Time

 Wiggle to Squiggle

Dough Disco

Rhyme Time

Bright Write

We explore lots of fun topics during the year based on the children's interests. These experiences will provide us with excellent opportunities, such as trips, cooking and visitors coming in to talk to us.  Some of our topics in the past have included pirates and fairy tales and exploring under the sea. To enhance our learning of these topics we have visited Hengistbury Head, Farmer Palmers and invited the Creature Teachers into school to meet a range of minibeasts and animals.

We will begin learning our phonemes to help us read, and become confident writers. We will also start to learn lots of various maths skills, including composition of numbers, cardinality and counting, patterns and shape, space and measure.  

In Reception, we learn through play, so we are looking forward to creating lots of fun and exciting experiences for the children.  If you feel this is something you could support us with, we always welcome volunteers to our base.

We update our Dojo page weekly to inform you about the topic your child is learning, the phonics that have been taught and the new skills they have learnt for mathematics. 

Useful Information

  • P.E is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children to wear a PE kit (suitable for the weather that day)
  • We read with the children three times a week and once we have taught them to blend words, they will bring home phonetic reading books to match their reading attainment every Thursday. The children will also have the opportunity to take home a 'Love to Read book' from the library which can be changed as and when they have read it.

A few points to remember

  • Water only in water bottles
  • Book bags are required every Thursday (only). Children cannot bring home a phonics or library book if they do not have a book bag.
  • Name everything, especially water bottles, jumpers and cardigans.
  • Doors close at 8:40am. Any children arriving after this time will need to enter through the main front office.
  • Please read with your child at least 3 times a week.
  • Please encourage your child to infer, predict and discuss the vocabulary within the book.

 

The Million Word Gap

New research shows the different number of words children will have heard by aged 5 based on how often parents read with them.

Never read to: 4,662 words
1–2 times per week: 63,570 words
3–5 times per week: 169,520 words
Daily- 296,660 words
Five books a day:183,300 words
 
EARLY LEARNING GOALS

In Reception, children work towards the Early Learning Goals (ELG). Children should achieve these goals by the end of Reception so that they are ready for the KS1 curriculum to begin in Year One. Below is a list of the 17 areas of development that children will be required to achieve early learning goals.

The 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) are:

Communication and Language

Listening and Understanding 

Speaking 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Self-Regulation 

Managing Self 

Building Relationships 

Physical Development

Gross Motor Skills 

Fine Motor Skills 

Literacy

Comprehension 

Word Reading 

Writing 

Mathematics

Number 

Numerical Patterns 

Understanding the World

Past and Present 

People, Culture and Communities 

The Natural World 

Expressive Arts and Design

Creating with Materials 

Being Imaginative and Expressive 

Reading - 

Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read. Children learn that every letter makes a phoneme (sound) and each phoneme has a grapheme (letter) that corresponds.

Children should be able to....

-Recognise the following phonemes and the graphemes that represent them

Writing-

Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.

Number - 

Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.


To support reading at home you should….

Ensure you read with your child every day.

Ensure reading is part of your daily routine, including bedtime stories.

To support writing at home you should….

 

Encourage children to use writing as part of their day. i.e writing shopping lists, letters etc.

 

Practise correct letter formation when the children are writing and ensure they use the correct sounds when segmenting for writing. 

See the Little Wandle parents guide

For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

To support mathematics at home you should….

Ensure you continue to provide the opportunity to use numbers and shape in everyday life, e.g. counting out food, sharing your dinners, discussing shapes you see and their properties.

Use Numbots as a way to develop number fluency. 

Below are a few websites that may be of use to help your child continue their learning when at home:

Phonics

For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

 

Tricky words (songs) 

Tricky words are words that cannot be 'sounded out'

Maths

Get Squiggling Fine/gross motor https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=get+squiggling

Please contact your child's class teacher via Dojos if you have any further questions.

Thank you

The EYFS Team

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