Reception

Welcome To Reception

 

    

                                                                    Miss Murgatroyd              Mrs Murray                     Mrs Keegan

Welcome to our class page. Reception builds on the experiences that our children have had prior to starting in school. In Reception we learn through play and there continues to be an emphasis on language acquisition and understanding across all areas of the curriculum. At St Peter’s we are incredibly fortunate to have a fantastic outdoor learning area that can be accessed by the children at all times of the school day. It is through these creative and open ended opportunities that we are able to further develop our children’s ability to work together, problem solve, risk take and become independent learners.

In Reception we love to read and share books daily developing our children’s language, understanding and a love of books. We teach reading in a variety of ways, through book talk, systematic teaching of phonics and interactive experiences. Read Write Inc is our chosen phonic scheme and the children engage in daily phonic sessions led by an adult and pitched at an appropriate level for each individual child. We follow our sessions with opportunities throughout the day to revisit what we have learnt earlier in the day and have a Book Bag Book that goes home to help us practice. We are also lucky to have access to videos that we are able to share with parents and carers to support reading at home. This partnership with home is really important to us and we look forward to getting to know all our children through the trusting relationship we develop with the wider family.

We use our online platform Seesaw as a window into the classroom and will upload videos, photos, paintings and lots of other wonderful work that we are sure all our parents and families will love to view.

As with all our classes in Reception we have an open door policy and look forward to welcoming you into our classroom and working together to ensure that the children in our care feel safe, supported and enjoys all aspects of school life.

The Reception Team.