Reception

Welcome everybody to the Reception section of the website. 

Welcome to Reception class:

Class Teachers:
RW - Miss Willetts 
RB - Mr Billington (Mrs Bruce)
RM- Miss Moran

Learning Support Assistants: Mrs Lindan  (Mr Bilington/Mrs Bruce), Mrs Wilkowska (Miss Moran), Miss Jakobowska (Miss Willetts), Mrs Taylor, Mrs Phillingham (Speech and Language) Miss Nuper

Assistant Headteacher: Miss Moran

Our curriculum has been designed to be broad and balanced. The children engage in independent learning opportunities as well as adult guided group work, and by promoting excellent behaviour, we aim to enthuse in all our children a desire to learn, as well as care for and respect each other.

The Partnership between home and school is integral to your child’s success and we encourage parents to take an active part in their child’s learning. We see parents as playing a significant part in the education of their children, and greatly value their contribution to school life. 

Whatever the needs of your child or special interests they have, we aim to ensure your child thrives at Lark Hill Community Primary School. We want the children here to have memorable experiences, build on what they know and can do and help them to become confident, lifelong learners.

P.E.
Our P.E. day is Thursday. 

Water bottles and snacks

Don't forget to bring a water bottle to school each day - it is important for children to stay hydrated throughout the day. Please label bottles and take them home to wash at home time. Juice is not allowed in school to promote good oral health.

Children do not need to bring in a snack as they are provided throughout the day. Breadsticks and milk can be ordered at the start of each half-term, please speak to the school office about this.

Topic- Spring 1

We have developed a long term curriculum plan, including 'overarching themes', which support how the different areas, knowledge and skills will be taught across the academic year. They link prior knowledge to new learning to deepen children's understanding. Over the year we will explore the children's interests and use themes to guide our learning. The adults will tune into children's interest and plan purposeful and meaningful learning experiences across the curriculum.

The learning environment will also reflect our learning and theme which this half term is called 'From field to table'. We will develop our knowledge of plants and growing. We will engage in hands on experiences to plant our own seeds and observe what happens. We will engage in stories and non- fiction texts to extend our vocabulary and include this as part of our play.  

Reading at Home

In Reception, it is important that you read with your child at least 3 times a week and sign their reading record. A member of the Reception team will check reading records daily, so please ensure that reading records are returned to school each day. 

Support children to apply their phonic knowledge by saying letter sounds and blending those sounds together to read a word.  See Saw has all of the RWI videos on how to say the sounds. Also, continue to demonstrate reading for pleasure and reading stories to your child. 

Practise reading sight words daily. These are the tricky words children cannot use their phonics to sound out, they learn them by sight. Children learn best by repeated exposure to the words, by seeing them and saying them and by playing games. At Lark Hill, we call these Red Words and your child will bring a set home with their first reading book, we will check them when reading in class. The words are linked to the colour of book your child will bring home.  

Seesaw

Seesaw is an online learning journal that documents a record of a child’s experiences, development and learning journey through their primary years. Using photos, videos and diary entries, Seesaw tells the story of your child and how they are growing and developing. Parents are able to view online their child’s progress and how much fun they’re having,  whilst also uploading their own comments and media.  If you can not access Seesaw please give your child’s class teacher your email address to activate your account.

Please respond to the things that we post with a comment, and post your own photographs or videos so that we may share them in your child's home learning journey. Use the crib sheet below to guide you through uploading an observation to your child's account.

PSE

In Reception we take part in planned weekly sessions to develop our personal, social and emotional development. We use Think Equal and Jigsaw to develop children's knowledge and understanding of themselves, others and the world around them. These sessions are very important and promote excellent talk and and thinking about wider issues and subjects. 

 

 

Mathematics

We use Mastering Number to support our learning of number in reception and White Rose Maths to explore shape, space and measure. This half term we are focusing on the composition of numbers up to five and ten. We will use the vocabulary for part, part whole and continue to revisit and practise subitising.

We will also explore mass and capacity and engage in practical activities to practise using new vocabulary in context. 

Literacy

We will engage in texts linked to our theme through play in continuous provision every day. We will also explore a new text in taught sessions to develop our oracy skills, comprehension and writing. We will introduce new vocabulary and practise using the words in a sentence and through play. Every day we will model writing sentences and children will engage in practising the sentences orally as well as writing in small groups. 

We are also continuing our writing journey through play with large gross motor activities and sensory play We are also supporting the children's writing skills by exposing them to writing opportunities in continuous provision; hooks linked to our theme of the week are encouraging the children to 'choose' to write. We are also using the Message Centre and Drawing Club to promote a love and excitement for writing. 

There are lots of ways to promote a love of writing at home. Enjoy writing shopping lists, birthday cards and messages for others. Use the information on See Saw to support how to form the letters correctly and learn the formation rhymes. Speak to your child's teacher for more information on developing fine motor skills. 

Phonics

Read Write Inc (RWI) is a phonics-based programme which helps children learn to read whilst also developing a wide range of vocabulary and encouraging a love of stories. It was developed by Ruth Miskin.

In Reception, children will be taught a sound a day and will be assessed regularly by their class teachers. We will continue in our phonics groups learning new sounds, segmenting and blending, reading and keywords. We regularly give out phonics certificates to those who have tried hard, too!