Welcome to Reception’s Class Page          2026-2027

Class Teacher: Miss Briggs 

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Trousdale

Hello and a big welcome to Receptions's class page. 

This year we will be participating in lots of exciting activities and challenges. We will be using this page to share and celebrate your child's achievements along with important school updates. 

In our Reception environment, they will learn independence, social skills as well as the wonderful maths, writing and reading they learn along the way. We always teach the child it is good to make mistakes and how to build confidence through a play-based, vocabulary rich curriculum. During our time together, we aim to give them the best tools and support to advance in these areas and to be ready for starting Year One. 

For a full and detailed breakdown of each area of learning, please read the half termly Newsletters that have been sent home and the 'Medium Term Plan’ document that is attached below. This details this half terms learning intentions, including the vocabulary that will be taught.

Reading Books - The children will not bring home a reading book within Autumn Term 1.  

Phonics and Reading- Autumn Term 1

The children have already started to learn their Set 1 sounds based on our scheme ‘Read Write Inc’ within Nursery. This will now continue in Reception with a six week daily whole class session with the class teacher. The children will not come home with a reading book until they are starting to confidently segment and blend the sounds they have learnt independently.

Assessments will take place at the end of this half term (once all Set 1 sounds have been taught) and if the children are assessed to be ready, books will start to be sent home at the start of Autumn Term 2. Learning links and QR codes will be shared via the Evidence Me app each week to share what your child has been learning that week. We ask that you share these with your child at home too to help support their strong start in phonics and reading within Reception.

However, the children will continue to have a reading for pleasure book; the children are not expected to be able to read this book, but we ask that you read, enjoy and share this book with your child. If the children return these books back ito school, they will be changed each Wednesday. 

Homework- The children in Reception will not have Homework books until the Spring term.

I am sure that they will be very excited to share their new learning with you at home.

Please take some time to keep updated on the schools facebook page and Evidence Me app - this is a fantastic tool to give you insight of what your child is busy doing in class. 

We love to see what the children get up to when they are not in school, so please do send us any photographs so we can share them in class. These can be uploaded onto 'Evidence Me' or emailed to the email address below. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to speak to us on the door or contact the office and we will get in touch.

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Diary Dates

Although we try our best to stick to what we have originally put in place, sometimes diary dates have to change - please see the weekly newsletters for the most up to date school events. 

Thank you for your continued support!

Miss Briggs