Freehold
Reception
We have two Reception classes. Reception Green and Reception Yellow. You can find information and learning resources below.
Staff in Reception Green
Class Teacher: Mrs Sharman and Miss Lees
Welcome everyone! We are so excited for our year ahead in Reception. We have so many fantastic learning opportunities to come and our aim to ensure every day is full of exciting activities and active lessons to support your learning journey throughout school 🙂
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Saddique /Mrs McKay
Staff in Reception Yellow
Class Teacher: Mrs Schofield
Hello Reception Yellow! I am so looking forward to a fun filled year with lots of amazing learning opportunities. We are going to do lots of exciting activities to support your learning journey and make lots of memories together 🌞
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Tarbuck /Mrs McKay
Class information
To see some of your child’s super learning and exciting provision please follow our school twitter and EYFS Instagram account below …
Little Learners Big Imaginations Instagram
You can see our fabulous learning environment and some of the exciting resources and opportunities indoors and outdoors.
The school day
School starts at 8.40am and the doors will be open from 8.40am. Learning starts straight away, so it's very important to be punctual. Children can feel quite upset when they arrive to school late so please help them to have a good start to their day. Breakfast club is available for Reception children from 8.15am, where they can take part in some activities and have some breakfast before school.
The children have their lunch at 11am and go home at 3.15pm. You can collect your child from 3.10pm to help you get to any other classes to pick up your other children. Children must be picked up by someone known to the staff and named on the contact form. If this is going to be different you must let the school office know in advance or we will not be able to let your child go home until we have permission from you.
Good attendance is 96% or above. It's very important to bring your child to school every day so they do not miss any learning. More information about attendance can be found here.
Class Timetable
Newsletter
Reading in Reception
Our class author is Chloe Perkins. This year the pupils in Reception will be reading a number of diverse fairy tales written by Chloe. Here are some below..
This half term, our quality texts are...
Reading is such an important part of your child's learning and we want children to love books and stories and enjoy sharing them with you at home. As well as learning to read themselves, it's just as important for them to hear other people read. Here is a link to the BookTrust website where you will find stories that can be read aloud for you or links to videos. You can also read the stories to your child yourself here too. We also use Collins E-books and assign the guided reading books read in class for you to share at home.
School uniform
Children in Reception wear our school uniform and it helps them to feel part of the school community. Please make sure you label all items of clothing with your child's name to help them look after their own clothes. The images below show examples of our uniform and you can buy our jumpers and cardigans here.
For the full uniform policy please go to the Parent section of the website and look for the subheading School Uniform.
Snacks
In reception children can bring a range of healthy snacks to school these include;
- Fruit
- Dried fruit
- Vegetables e.g. carrot sticks
- Tube yogurts
- Crackers
- Yogurt covered fruit e.g. raisins
- Cheese e.g. cheese-strings
You do not need to send your child to school with a water bottle as cups and fresh water is provided throughout the day within the classroom that the children can help themselves to. We will also provide a milk and a healthy snack in the afternoon that we share together this is an integral part of learning about new food and keeping healthy.
Trips and Visitors
Autumn
We will have lots of visitors in school to talk to us about who can help us. We will also see the Pantomime in Autumn 2.
Spring
We will have our very own eggs to hatch this half term and a trip to the farm.
Summer
We will have a visit from the Creepy Crawley Show!
Vocabulary
Please see our vocabulary pyramid and key vocabulary mat for this terms theme.
Phonics
We follow the Little Wandle scheme for phonics and there is a useful parent section on the website that will give you all the information about which sounds we learn each half term, the tricky words, pronunciations and blending strategies. Please take a look...
https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Maths
This half term we will be learning to match and compare, create and identify patterns and will revisit our knowledge of shapes. For more information about the White Rose Maths scheme we use at Freehold please click the link below...
https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths
Homework
Your child will bring their homework bag home every Friday and this will have a decodable book at their reading level, that they should be able to read with a little help and a story book they have chosen to share with you. We will also be sending some tricky words to practice along with some words to look at that will appear in the following week's guided reading book. We will be inviting parents into school for a reading and phonics workshop this half term, where you can pick up some tips on how to support your child to read and where you can ask any questions about other ways to help them at home. We will inform you of the dates closer to the time.
Reception information
Please see below for further information about Reception.