Reception

Reception is part of the Foundation Stage. The Foundation Stage follows the Early Learning Goals which are reached by a series of stepping stones. We recognise that each child is unique and will to achieve these Goals at their own pace through a variety of indoor/outdoor active learning experiences. The six areas of learning are:-

communication, language and literacy; personal, social and emotional development;

mathematical problem solving, reasoning and numeracy;

knowledge andunderstanding of the world;

physical development and creative development.

In Reception we aim to encourage the children to become independent, confident, happy and secure members of our school community. This is promoted through many aspects in school including our whole school code of conduct. You can also help your child towards reaching these goals by encouraging them to come into class independently, dress themselves, take off/put on and fasten their coat and shoes and to support and take pride in all they achieve.

Children in Reception have had a very busy Summer Term. We became vets and looked after our pets. We even had real pets visiting our classrooms like Roxi the dog, Tom the cat and the two tortoises. We played in our outdoor space in the lovely sunshine.

We have had Dance lessons with Melody Bear and Yoga sessions with Linda, which were lots of fun.

We had an exciting time at Sports day and everyone won medals. We were very proud and good sports.

Our trip to Underwater Street was interesting and as we stayed all day, we could try all the activities. We brought our models and crafts back to school. We especially enjoyed the science experiments.


For ‘Take one Picture’ some of us painted Tobias and the Angel and some of us made a Spinning Dog.
We went to see what all the other classes had done at our exhibition. Afterwards we had ice lollies to celebrate.