🌟 Welcome to Reception! 🌟

Our teaching team consists of:

😊 RDJ - Mrs Jones (Reception Team Leader) and Mrs Boswell 

😁 RNH - Mrs Hall and Mrs Baumber 

We are Reception 💫 

Important Information 👍

Early Learning Goals 

These are the end of year targets for the children in Reception. 

RECEPTION NEWSLETTER

Home School books 📚 

Please bring your yellow home/school contact book to school every day. This book is to inform the class teacher of any change to collection/drop off routines. It is also used to pass messages or information to your teacher and also to enable the teacher to communicate messages back to parents.

Reading books 📖 

At the start of the year children will bring home a picture book and a sharing/library book. Please share these at home and encourage your child to tell the story using the pictures.

When the children start Read, Write, Inc they will bring home a sound activity or a reading book linked to their phonics group. Please ensure children bring their reading book to school each day. Please practise reading the sounds and words with your child. We recommend the children read a minimum of 3 times a week at home to continue to develop their skills. Please make a note of your child’s reading in their Reading Record.

Homework

Homework books will be sent out each Friday with an activity for your child to complete at home, please help to support your child in completing this. Homework books will be collected in on the following Thursday and homework will be shared in class. 

PE 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 

Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on the correct day. Mrs Hall's class PE is on Monday. Mrs Jones' class PE is on Friday. The children will stay in their kit all day. Please ensure all kit is labelled with your child's name.

💧 Water bottle 

Please send your child to school with a labelled bottle of water each day. This is for their use only throughout the day to keep hydrated.

We are Reception 

Rainbow Day 🌈 

We had lots of fun on Rainbow Day! We came to school dressed in bright colours. We enjoyed talking about different colours and singing the Rainbow song. We spotted the colours in our clothes and discussed which were our favourite colours. We had a Rainbow disco in the hall and enjoyed joining in with lots of dances. The Rainbow Fish sent us a colour mixing challenge. We used finger paint to mix two colours together to make purple, green and orange. We made our own craft rainbow and enjoyed dot painting rainbow pictures using cotton buds. 

The Rainbow Fish 

We have been reading the story of The Rainbow Fish. We have learnt how important it is to be a good friend and share, just like the Rainbow Fish shared his shiny scales. We have enjoyed acting out the story in the storytelling area and creating beautiful artwork. We have been learning about different sea creatures that live under the ocean and have enjoyed learning different songs and dances. 

Settling into Reception 

We have all settled into our Reception unit and had lots of fun together! We have been making friends and exploring both our inside and outside environments.