St Mary's Church of England School
Nurturing Creative Thinkers
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Kendal Road,Kirkby Lonsdale,
Cumbria LA6 2DN
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
World book Day
We loved coming to school dressed as our characters from our favourite books. We read a new story, The day the crayons quit; we pretended we were crayons and created speech bubbles giving reasons we couldn’t be used anymore and made fantastic pictures using crayons.
Exploring with the musical instruments
We were tapping out beats on the drums and the claves. We tried to copy different beats, we made loud sounds, quiet ones, fast ones, s!ow ones. It was really good fun.
World Book Day
Harry Potter, Katie Morag, Hairy Maclary, White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Gangsta Granny and Mr Twit were just a few of the fantastic book day costumes. Every class had a fun day reading Oliver Jeffer’s books and responding through drama, writing opportunities, Art work and music. My favourite Oliver Jeffer’s book is Lost and […]
Chinese New Year
What an amazing time we have had taking part in dragon dance and playing our instruments. We then took part in a special Chinese Banquet.
Reception- Robots everywhere
In reception we have been learning about all things robot. We have been learning how to move and speak like a robot, making tin can robots using lots of recycled metal objects from our houses and even robots for our snacks, they tasted delicious.
Reception- frozen bears found.
We read the book ‘Lost in the Snow’ where a small bear is lost in the snow. We walked up to our school woods and discovered three bears that had been frozen in ice. The children then set about finding a way to defrost the bears. They choose warm water, tools and salt. We had […]
Art Club – Silver Award
WOW – we have held another arts club – the children have been learning to draw cartoon pigs today! Thank you to everyone running the club, students from QES, we really appreciate your time and energy.
Adventure and Challenge Club
Our children in Year 3 and 4 have been taking part in their first team building challenge. Their task was to create the tallest tower for a toy soldier. This challenge was designed to not only explore their engineering skills but to see how well they worked and communicated in their group. We may have eaten […]
Happy New Year from Nursery and Reception
From Nursery and Reception Hope you’ve all had a lovely restful holiday and are excited for the new term. We will be thinking all about toys. Please can you bring in a favourite toy that Father Christmas brought you for us to look at.
Christmas Carol Concert
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Carol Service on Tuesday night. We sang together and each class performed wonderful songs or carols in the beautifully lit, St Mary’s Church. The service was interspersed with readings, read by Year 6 pupils. It was a lovely evening together with school community. Thank you […]
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