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

Kings Food Bank – Harvest Delivery

Our children have helped fill a Volvo estate full of food kindly donated by our children as part of our Harvest giving.  We are really trying to express our value of responsibility in as many practical ways as possible. This year we wanted to provide a bumper delivery of food although we support throughout the food bank […]

Nursery and Reception Harvest Celebration

Revd Snow came to celebrate Harvest with us. He thanked Nursery for their Harvest display in church. The children listed foods that might be harvested and spoke about vegetables they’d tried in school and told Revd Snow about the baking they’d done with the school apples – apple crumble and apple muffins. We sang Hallelujah […]

Signs of Autumn

Excitedly, we went on an Autumn walk. We spotted falling leaves and collected lots of different colour leaves. We used the parachute to toss them in the air and watch them fall. We used great describing words eg fluttering, swirling, crunchy… We saw but didn’t touch berries. We looked for signs of squirrels and built […]

Early Years Outdoor Area

Over the Summer holidays, we’ve continued to make developments to the Early Years outdoor space.  We now have new small world resources, a cascading water feature with taps and a writing den easily adapted to follow the children’s interests.  These areas are to add to our mud kitchen, Maths area, gardening area, sand and gravel pit, role play […]

Reception and Nursery visit Leigton Moss

Reception and Nursery had a fantastic day at Leighton Moss. In the morning, we found lots of minibeasts in the hideaway using our magnifiers and tiny paint brushes and later went pond dipping to find pond creatures. We asked some fantastic questions and made lots of observations. In the afternoon, we climbed the sky walk […]

We have started school HOORAY!

We have welcomed our children to their new classes today and have got off to a superb start.  Welcome everyone!

Infant Sports Day

What a fantastic morning of sport with our EYFS and Infant children.  Thank you to everyone who came along to support and also help raise funds for Macmillan Care and the PTA.

Fair Trade Coffee Afternoon

We have held another successful Fair Trade Afternoon, hosted by Mrs Neale in the Year 3 Class for all of our parents. During the afternoon children and volunteers served teas and coffee and also sold fairly traded goods from Tradecraft.  During the time we sold £91 of produce for Tradecraft and had a a great […]

New Home for the our Hens

The children have been helping take care of our hens and are doing a wonderful job. They even provided our three buff orpingtons (Joanne, Wendy and Sarah) with hanging baskets for their new home. Thanks once again to Miss Robinson helping build and look after the hens with our children.

Hens have arrived!

The nursery and reception class have been helping with the school hens. The have named them, Joanne, Wendy and Sarah. The children have been learning to care fore the hens and learn what they need to eat and maintaining their water.  They have become a real hit with the children who are taking care of […]

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

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Year 3

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Year 4

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Year 5

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Year 6

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