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
Tim Farron Visits School
Today we have had a visit and question and answer time with Tim Farron who talked with our children today. We have been electing our School, Worship and Sports Councillors this week. It has been lovely to hear Tim’s responses and to hear about how passionate he is about the constituency he has represented.
European Languages Day
Each year we celebrate European Languages Day. Each class looks at a different country and explores the languages, culture and geography. We have had a super time! Many classes like to try and explore a new country, this year Belgium was the choice of Year 6.
Mia has a great time on This Morning
Wow look at what Mia has been doing…
End of Term
The Year 6 Service will start at 9:30am at St Mary’s Church concluding at around 10:30am. The Summer term will end at 1:00pm pm after lunch.
Conference Visit to Rydal Hall
Some of our children from Year 5 have attended the School Vision Conference at Rydal Hall this week. We have taken part in a whole range of activities to help us think about the children’s involvement in our school vision. We were joined by many school from all over Cumbria. It was lovely to see […]
Welcome Back to Summer Term
We are pleased to welcome our children after the Half Term Break.
Half Term Break
We look forward to welcoming our children back after half term on June 3rd.
Kenya Day Challenge
The staff at St Mary’s have supported the Kenya Day fund raising by doing sit ups and pres ups throughout the day. The target was 500 then we increased it to 600. With a target of 1500 sit ups and then 1500 press ups we are well and truly smashing to target. Thank you to all of […]
Thank you for supporting Red Nose Day
Thank you so much for supporting Red Nose Day! We have had a great time together for a very important charity.
Spelling Bee Finals Results
Initially we encouraged all of our children to learn new spellings which were taken from the year expectations. After a fun spelling bee in classes each year group put forward finalists for our school spelling bee. The whole school came together to celebrate learning spellings. We had a wonderful time with what turned out to […]
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