Reception

Reception

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to Reception. In Reception, we are always busy; exploring our fantastic classroom, our outside areas and our wonderful woods. Learning is fun, practical and play based. We love learning new things, asking fantastic questions and having a give it a go attitude!

Lots of our learning takes place outside and we have a good balance between child directed play and adult initiated tasks.  Our curriculum was developed around our knowledge of child development, inspiring stories, our values, knowledge of our community, the statutory guidelines and our thirst to provide inspiring learning opportunities for all.

We follow the Read Write Inc scheme to help teach children to learn to read and write.  Gradually, we will guide you through each step of the phonics and reading scheme to help support every child to love reading.

Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Wadsworth are the class teachers in Reception Class and they are supported by Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Rickart and Mr Watson.

Please see our EYFS Page for essential documents and information. 

Reception Staff

Miss J Broome BA (Hons) QTS MA - Reception

Miss Broome is our Y4 teacher along with Mrs Arnold and teaches in Reception Class.

Mrs D Rickart BSc. Dip SpLD - Reception

Mrs Rickart Profile Mrs Rickart is a highly experienced practitioner with working in a range of settings. She he also has a specialism in Speech and Language and SEND and supports our children with Speech and Language difficulties.

Mrs C Chalmers - Reception

Mrs Chalmers Profile I’ve worked in St Mary’s Early Years for the last eleven years and I still love coming to work! I enjoy the challenges that the younger children bring – every day is different! I love seeing the progression throughout the school, especially as I work with most of the children when they […]

Mrs K Jamieson, BA QTS - Reception

Mrs Jamieson Profile I have two young children so when I am not at school I enjoy swimming, biking, going to the beach, reading lots of stories and watching Strictly Come Dancing! As a family, we enjoy listening to and playing music (some tuneful and some not!) as well as going to the cinema and […]

Latest News

Early Years Harvest

Rev Richard Snow has been with our Nursery and Reception class this week celebrating harvest. We retold the story of The Little Red Hen and then sang some Harvest songs and prayers.  Rev. Snow then taught us a new song saying thanks for the crops and we all performed a poem about our amazing world.  We are […]

European Languages Day

Our children have had a wonderful day exploring different languages and countries. They have learned where countries are in the world. The languages spoken in that country as well as the capital cities.  They have explored activities to celebrate that country as well as dress up in the colours of the country. In school we […]

Comic Art Festival – Please Vote

Our children have been hard at work preparing for their contribution to the Comic Arts Festival. Mrs Day has been working on presenting the children’s work which is displayed at Highgate’s Vets in Kendal. Please go and have a look at the fantastic window display!  Very well done to our Year 1 children.  It would […]

Healthy Traffic Lights

We’ve been making healthy snack. We thought about the fruits we could use to make traffic light colours. Carefully, we chopped, peeled, halved, positioned and tasted. Yum! Yum!

Reception Reading and Phonics Meeting

Thank you for attending the Reception Reading and Phonics meeting.  We hope you’ve been busy rehearsing with Mr Thorne!  Here’s the PowerPoint…Reading and Phonics If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask one of the team.

Annual Review – Parents Information

We have published our annual review. This document provides a short review of the school year and our improvement priorities for the  school in the coming year. We have had a very exciting year and we look forward to another exciting time starting in September.  Please read through our review and share some of the […]

Annual Review 2016

This document provides a review of our year for parents to reflect on what has been a fun and exciting year.  We hope you find the information in the review interesting. It is a very brief summary of the huge amount of learning experiences that have taken place this year. You can dowload this document […]

Clay faces

On Friday we went up into the woods, to make clay faces. We had a brilliant time finding natural materials for the features. As you can see they looked brilliant.

Crown making

As part of our celebrations for the Queen’s 90th birthday we were making paper plate crowns. Children from around the school came together to different activities. We had brilliant fun and created some crown masterpieces, with added sparkle.

Our assembly

We had a brilliant time sharing our assembly with our family. We retold the story of Jack and the beanstalk, sang songs and showed the work we had created around the book. Everyone enjoyed the show.

Reading List

We’re Going on a Lion Hunt
By David Axtell

The Naughty Bus
By Jan Oke

The Train Ride
By June Crebbin and Stephen Lambert

Jolly Christmas Postman
By Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Reception Calender Events

Reception Curriculum

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Year Groups

Nursery

Reception

Nursery and Reception make up the Foundation Stage

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Year 1

Infants

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Year 2

Infants

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Year 3

Juniors

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Year 4

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Year 5

Juniors

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Year 6

Juniors

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