Life in Reception is an exciting journey filled with creativity, exploration, and learning. Our Reception classrooms are vibrant and engaging environments where the children are welcomed and encouraged daily. Our two Reception classes focus on building strong friendships, communication and language skills and instilling a love of learning.
Reception follows an enriching curriculum that aims to motivate and inspire our youngest children. The classes follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum which is divided into seven areas of learning and our signature ‘Nurture’ programme takes learning outside of the classroom.
Prime areas:
Personal, social and emotional development
Our children learn to make friends, understand their feelings and develop independence.
Communication and language
We provide a language-rich environment and encourage meaningful conversations. Our children are exposed to new vocabulary through books, storytelling, circle time and daily phonics lessons.
Physical Development
In addition to regular sports, gymnastics, swimming and ballet lessons, our children engage in activities to enhance their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills.
Specific areas:
Literacy
The children work on a class text each half term initially working on labelling pictures and writing captions before progressing to independent sentence writing. Our daily phonics sessions promote the use of phonics skills such as decoding, segmenting and blending. We aim to enhance the children’s vocabulary, reading speed and sight-reading skills through listening to every child read each day.
Mathematics
We aim for our children to adopt a love for numbers. We have daily lessons to enhance the children’s understanding of number, shape, space and measure. All children have opportunities to consolidate their Maths learning through hands-on, practical experiences throughout the week.
Understanding of the World
We create opportunities for the children to explore the similarities and differences between the world around them. The children develop an understanding of people, communities and what makes us special and unique. Children start learning French and Spanish from Reception and enjoy learning through songs and pictures.
Expressive art and design
The children enjoy exploring a range of mediums and expressing themselves through creating models, collages, pictures and much more. We also support children to develop skills in this area through weekly lessons in Music, Drama, Gymnastics and Dance lessons.
