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Dear Parents,

Welcome to Reception. 

In Reception, our doors open from 8.40 a.m. until 8.55 a.m. to allow for a smooth start to the day. We learn through play, both indoor and outdoor and follow the Early Years curriculum with its 7 areas of learning: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Communication and Language, Mathematics, Literacy, Understanding of the World and Expressive Arts and Design. Equal importance is given to both our indoor and outdoor learning.

We use ClassDojo as our main communication tool. We will share what the children have been learning in class and communicate all class/school related information with you using this platform. It is essential that you are connected to our class page.

Your children will be beginning their Reading Journey. We follow Read, Write Inc for phonics. Initially your children will be taught as a whole class, learning all of set 1 sounds and learning to read and write the sounds and blending sounds to read the words. By half term, we will have assessed the children and they will be working in smaller more targeted groups.

In English we will be using Ready Steady Write to develop our love of Stories, developing our Oracy skills and learning to write simple sentences.

In Maths we will be following Mastering Number which we are very excited about. Whilst we will be working on numbers beyond 20, learning to read and write number and will begin to add and subtract number we will also be embedding skills to secure our knowledge and understanding of the values of number.

Or Curriculum is thematic and follows the rest of the school, building up in knowledge as the children progress through the years. All our curriculum documents are on the wbsite.

As we are heading towards winter can you please ensure that your children ahve a coat and wellington boots in school and that all clothing is clearly labelled.

I am looking forward to working with you and your children. If you have any concerns or questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you 

Mrs, Thomas