Reception
Welcome to Reception
Welcome to Reception. Your class teacher is Mrs O’Brien. Mrs Metcalfe, Miss Lloyd and Mrs Norman are your teaching assistants. Your midday supervisors are Mrs Mehan and Mrs Metcalfe.
Starting full time school in Reception can be a big change, but we try hard to make the transition as smooth as possible. In the autumn term we work with the support and guidance of an adult and we focus on developing the core areas of communication and language, physical development and personal and social education. This will be through topics children are familiar with, for example ‘family’ and ‘people who help us’.
As children get older and are more used to the routines of the day, we introduce more whole class and small group literacy and maths activities alongside topic activities. However, it is still very important that the children have time each morning and afternoon for self-initiated activities in which to play and practice their skills and to follow their own interests.
Throughout the year we maintain electronic Learning Journals for each child in which we record their achievements and interests in the form of photos, observational notes and examples of work. These Learning Journals then help us to make assessments against the Early Learning Goals at the end of the Reception year. Parents have access to these via an online app and can add their own comments and observations.
Topics vary during the year, according to the children’s interests, however we tend to cover seasonal changes and celebrations every year such as autumn, Fireworks night, Diwali, Christmas, winter, spring, Easter etc.
There’s lots to learn during Reception, but we have fun doing it!
Mrs O'BrienMrs Metcalfe
Mrs Norman
Miss Lloyd
New to Reception PowerPoint 2025
New to Reception Powerpoint 2025for website
Reception Class Curriculum Overviews
100 Books to Read Before You Leave Reception!
100 books to read before you leave Reception!
Reception Reading Spine
Phonics Presentation October 2025
Phonics in Reception Presentation WEBSITE
Phonics Pure Sounds
Learn how to pronounce all 44 phonics sounds, or phonemes, used in the English language with these helpful examples, from Oxford Owl.
RECEPTION CLASS 2025-2026
25/2/26 - LI: To balance. Today the children transformed themselves into trapeze artists to practise balancing.
10/2/26 - LI: To understand what an online activity is. It is Safer Internet Day and we have been learning about our online reputation and identifying ways we can put information online.
5/2/26 - LI: To write a postcard. We have been reading The Snail and the Whale and the children, pretending to be the snail, wrote postcards to their snail friends back home.
28.1.26 LI: To talk about vehicles past and present. We have been looking at past and present vehicles and discussing similarities and differences.
14/1/26 - LI: To design a sea creature. We have been reading Lost and Found where the boy and the penguin travel across the ocean. Today we used Purple Mash on the interactive whiteboard to design some sea creatures.
15/12/25 - LI: To write a caption. Reception are beginning to write captions in phonics using phase 2 and a few phase 3 phonics.
10/12/25 - LI: To learn about the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. The children learned all about the food, games and activities that are part of the Hanukkah celebrations. They made cards, Menorahs and pictures.
3/12/25 - LI: To make gingerbread people. Linked to our story, The Gingerbread Man, we made our own gingerbread people biscuits. We mixed the ingredients, rolled the dough and used a shape cutter. We talked about what would happen to the biscuits once they went into the oven and we observed the changes.
27/11/25 - LI: To write a letter. We have been reading The Jolly Postman and we wrote letters to our families. We then walked to our local post box to post them. We also had a visit from Debbie, who worked at the Royal Mail, and she told us all about how our letters get from the post box to their houses.