Reception - The Grove Primary School

Welcome to Reception! Our teacher is Lauren Bowe. She is assisted by Hazel Gaines. We follow an emergent curriculum that is based upon the needs and interests of the wonderful children in Reception.

Most of the children in our Reception class came to our Nursery and so we are lucky enough to have already formed relationships with them by the time they come to us in Reception. We also welcome some children into Reception from other Nurseries and it is always lovely to make new friends.

Early Years can be the child’s first experience of the wider world, outside of the family home. It is therefore essential that this experience is varied, rich and of the highest quality to ensure that strong foundations are built to enable our children to progress through life successfully. We support our children in becoming capable, confident individuals who have high self-esteem and social competence. We have highly skilled, enthusiastic educators who work hand in hand with parents and the community to provide the best start for all of the children in our care.

During the Reception year, children progress rapidly and develop the skills that are essential for lifelong learning. They work on both adult directed tasks and have lots of opportunities for child initiated learning. Reception children begin their day at 8.35am and stay with us until 3.15pm. Lauren and Hazel work very closely with Reception. We have a breakfast and after school club available daily to both Nursery and Reception children. For more information about this service please click here.

If you have any questions or want to find out any further information about our unit, then please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help you!

Useful Information for Parents and Carers:

Early Years Funding Help

Reception Long Term Plan

Reception Long Term Overview 2024 2025

What we are learning in Reception this half term…

Our topic is: How Exciting!

Throughout this topic, we will be looking at various celebrations such as: birthdays, marriage, baptisms, bonfire night, shabbat, Christmas and Remembrance. If you have any photographs or things to share about any of these celebrations, we would love to hear about them via Tapestry or photographs/objects. During this topic, we will be looking at how they are celebrated as well as why they are. We will be immersing the children in real life experiences as well as hosting some celebrations of our own. It is very exciting!

In Literacy, we will be retelling stories related to events using role play. As well as this, we will continue to read books chosen by the children as well as stories about different celebrations. The children will look at fiction and non-fiction texts to gather a wealth of knowledge about different celebrations. The children have now been grouped in Read Write Inc and will be looking at the set 1 sounds as well as applying them in reading and writing. We will begin to introduce the children to Christophers red words; I, no, go, to the.

In Maths, we will be exploring different representations of 0-5 in depth including subitising, composition and comparison. We will be matching numeral to quantity and counting using one to one correspondence. We will be comparing different amounts using vocabulary “more than, fewer than and equal to.”

We will be focussing on various maths skills during our Robots and Rockstars week (4th to 8th November 2024), learning a firework song that is linked to money as well as counting during our continuous provision activities indoors and outdoors.

In addition to this, we will continue to work on gross and fine motor skills every day, we are encouraging the children be independent when putting on their shoes, coats, waterproofs and wellies. We will also be encouraging the children to have a go at zipping up their own coats.

We are very excited for this wonderful half term we have lots of exciting things happening keep an eye on Tapestry for dates for your diary.

Other useful information:

We do P.E. every Monday & Friday. Please come to school dressed in your P.E. kit.

Remember to bring your water bottle each day – filled with fresh water, no juice.

Book bags need to come to school every day.

Children will be listened to read, and books changed on a Tuesday. Please send their reading books in every day as we do have some volunteers that love to hear them read.