Welcome to Reception
Teacher: Miss Marsden
Teaching Assistants: Miss Kitchen, Mrs McEwan & Mrs Russell
New Starters Information: September 2026
Please click link below for new starters information outlined in our recent information evening.
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Our Curriculum
Our Reception curriculum encompasses all seven areas of learning (including the three prime areas and four specific areas).
Prime areas of learning:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development (including Building Relationships, Managing Self and Self-Regulation)
- Communication and Language (including Speaking and Listening, Attention and Understanding)
- Physical Development (including Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills)
Specific areas of learning:
- Literacy (including Comprehension, Word Reading and Writing)
- Mathematics (including Number and Numerical Patterns)
- Understanding the World (including Past and Present, People, Culture and Communities and The Natural World)
- Expressive Arts and Design (including Creating With Materials and Being Imaginative and Expressive)
Children are taught foundational knowledge and skills which can then be built upon throughout their school and adult lives. Teaching is through a range of specifically taught lessons, small group work, individual work, open ended provision tasks, guided provision tasks and home learning tasks – all of which can be indoor or outdoor based.
Phonics
In Reception we teach the children to read using the Little Wandle phonics scheme.
Autumn Term
Children will be taught phonemes (letter sounds) and towards the end of them term, they will learn digraphs (two letters which make one sound e.g. sh in sheep) and trigraphs (three letters which make one sound e.g. igh in night). The children also learn how to blend letters together in order to read simple words (e.g. r-e-d becomes red). This is when the children learn letter formation for each phoneme – there is a rhyme for each letter.
Spring Term
The focus is on recognising more digraphs and trigraphs. The children also begin to learn how to ‘chunk’ in order to read longer words (breaking a long word into smaller sections) and begin to write simple phrases.
Summer Term
The focus is on consonant blends (e.g. st / br / cr) which appear in words and children become confident in writing sentences.
Throughout the year the children will also learn many tricky words – these are words which sound differently to what they would when sound talked and blended (e.g. my, the, be).
More information on our phonics scheme can be found using the following link:
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