Welcome to Reception 2025-2026!

In Reception, we love to learn and play! We have lots of different areas that we can explore and we like to challenge ourselves with our COOL learning challenges. We have very high expectations and are striving to meet the Early Learning Goals. This includes writing super sentences, learning our numbers, counting and reading books. We have daily phonics sessions where we learn the sounds of the letters and use actions to support our learning.

The staff who help us to learn and challenge ourselves are:

Mrs Warner who teaches us Monday and Tuesday. (Mrs Dolman is on maternity leave but will be back in September 2026.)

Mrs Kerry who teaches us Wednesday-Friday.

Mrs Telford who supports us as our High-Level Teaching and Learning Assistant all week.

Miss Colclough who supports our class in a morning and Miss Callon supports our class in an afternoon.

Mrs Harry supports our class on a Wednesday when Mrs Kerry and Mrs Warner have their PPA time.  

What a lot of amazing adults we have!

Teaching in Reception is organised through a range of approaches and provides a balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities:

• Planned focused activities where adults work with a small group of children at a time. Teachers will differentiate the activity to meet the needs of every child participating.
• Small group teaching of early reading and writing through a phonics-based programme called Read Write Inc. Phonics
• Whole-class teaching for short periods of time such as shared story time, direct teaching (for example of maths), songs and rhymes, discussions and sharing work.
• Opportunities for teachers to work alongside children as they develop their own interests in particular areas of the curriculum.