Reception 2024 - 2025

Miss Ingman

Mrs Atherton

Welcome to Reception!

Class teachers: Mrs Atherton (Cygnets Class) Miss Ingman (Goslings Class)

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Aspinall Mrs Gauterin Mrs Capper

Welcome to Hartford Manor Primary School and Nursery. We are very excited to welcome you to Reception!

Autumn

Who is in our family?

Can you catch a star?

During the Autumn term, children will be exploring their new classroom whilst making new friends and getting to know their teachers. Children will be spending time learning where to put their belongings and will start to recognise and write their name when self registrating. We will be encouraging children to be more independent during snack time by washing their hands before accessing a healthy snack. During 'busy time' children will learn how to play in each area and will use the term 'choose it, use it, put it away' to help when tidying up.

Throughout Reception we will be exploring different themes within our provision. In Autumn 1 we will be learning all about the season of autumn, why Christians celebrate Harvest, and will be talking about ourselves, our families, and things we like and dislike which links to our topic 'Who is in our family?' We will also be playing lots of games to get to know each other and learn all about our school rules and expectations. In our literacy lessons we will be using the text 'The Gingerbread Man' and will be learning the poem 'I'm a Little Hedgehog'. In maths we will be looking at sorting, matching and comparing objects and will be creating simple patterns.

In Autumn 2 we will be continuing to learn all about the season of Autumn, exploring space, light and dark which links to our topic ‘Can you catch a star?’ We will also be looking at the different festivals and celebrations families celebrate this term from Diwali through to Christmas. In our literacy lessons we will be suing the text ‘Star in the jar’ and will be learning a story with a Christmassy feel to perform to our grown-ups. In maths we will learning our numbers to 5 by looking at their composition, subitising and one more and one less.

We use the Floppy Phonics scheme to teach our daily phonics lessons which has two sessions for each sound.

Children need to come dressed in their PE kit every Monday.

Celebration Assembly

Celebration Assembly will be on Friday at 9 am, every third week. You will get a message from school if your child is receiving a reward.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday. This will be uploaded on Tapestry every Friday, along with the weekly snapshots.

Tapestry

Each week you will be able to see photographs of your child's learning on Tapestry.

Important Dates

Wednesday 18th September - Meet the teacher

We use the Development Matters guidance document to plan our curriculum. Please click here for Development Matters.

If you need to get in touch with a member of the Reception team, please phone or email the school office, speak to one of us when you collect your child or send us a message via Tapestry.