Reception Parents Welcome Message
Reception - Autumn Term 2023
Welcome to our Reception website page. We will be adding photographs on to the class Twitter page and here on a photo subpage. This will help you to see what we are doing in class. There will also be class letters added. If you have any other ideas of things you would like to see on this page then please let myself, Mrs Spencer-Peck or Mrs Hulton know.
This Reception homepage gives details about the class.
Select 'Reception Photographs' sub page from the class pages menu bar if you would like to see slideshows of photographs from class.
There is also a sub page containing all the 'Pre September' documents that were provided on the website previously as part of the pre September induction.
If you have any photographs or news from home that your child wants to share with class and put in their 'Learning Journey' file please e mail them to receptionclass@st-saviourringley.bolton.sch.uk
Letters Home This Term:
Click on the links below to access copies of letters that have been sent home to Reception this term:
ICT Permission Letter Part A - Handed Out 6.9.23
ICT Permission Letter Part B - Handed Out 6.9.23
End Of The First Week! - Handed Out 8.9.23
School Apps For Payments and Communication - Handed Out In Welcome Pack - 18.9.23
Internet Help / Activity Links / Useful Documents
Click on the links below to access internet link / documents.
Literacy, Phonics, Maths Internet Link Ideas.
Maths Internet Activity Links.
Mini Mash/Purple Mash Introduction Letter
Purple Mash Parent Introduction Guide/Letter
Phase 2 ELS Sounds (phonemes) - How to Pronounce Each Grapheme. Click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/641445921
Phase 3 ELS Sounds (phonemes/digraphs/trigraphs) - How to Pronounce Each Grapheme. Click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/642342878/59d233684c
Early Learning Goals - An A4 sheet which outlines all the Early Learning Goals.
Development Matters Objectives For Each Area of Learning - Birth - Reception - Produced by Twinkl
Welcome From Percy.
Hi it is Percy here!
I can't wait to meet you all this term. I am sure we are going to have lots of fun together.
I have to let you into a little secret. I sometimes find my learning a bit tricky. Mrs Bowman has told me that you will all be able to help me. Thank you sooo much. I think I might need a lot of help.
I know your teachers have lots of fun things planned for us all this term. This term also includes Harvest, Remembrance Day, Bonfire Night and Christmas. I always find these super exciting. I hope it snows near Christmas so that we can build some snow parrots.
I had better go now in case Mrs Bowman, Mrs Spencer-Peck and Mrs Hulton need me.
Speak to you again soon.
Squaaaawk
Percy xxx
Meet The Staff
Mrs Bowman - EYFS Lead + Class teacher. Mrs Spencer-Peck - Teaching Tuesday mornings and all day on Thursdays.
Mrs Hulton (full time) + Mrs Meachem (Wed' afternoons) Teaching Assistants.
Early Years Policy, Curriculum Intent Statement + EYFS Yearly Curriculum Map
Below, there is a link to the 'Early Years Policy', the EYFS Curriculum Intent Statement and the yearly curriculum map for Reception.
We now follow the White Rose maths planning as a school. We use the long term overview that they provide, as an outline and then use a combination of their lesson plans and our own resources. The fourth link below will take you to the Reception part of the White Rose website.
Early Years Policy - January 2023
St Saviour EYFS Curriculum Intent Statement - 2023 2024
Termly Coverage Overviews
There is a copy of our Autumn Term coverage sheet below. This outlines some of the objectives we will be covering in class this term.
The second document below, gives more of an outline of the types of activities that will be undertaken across the term.
Below are downloadable copies of the termly coverage overviews and activity overviews for the Spring and Summer Term:
Phonics and Reading Books in Reception.
Phonics - We deliver 'Essential Letters and Sounds' (from the start of the Summer Term 2022).
Essential Letters and Sounds is a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme which has been validated by the Department of Education
Phase 2 ELS Sounds (phonemes) - How to Pronounce Each Grapheme. Click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/641445921
Phase 3 ELS Sounds (phonemes/digraphs/trigraphs) - How to Pronounce Each Grapheme. Click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/642342878/59d233684c
Demonstration Video - The video below demonstrates myself and last years Reception class sounding out a word using the ELS spelling sequence. This is a strategy that the scheme uses to encourage the children to listen to all the sounds (phonemes) they can hear in words before they write them. Children will not have to do this with every word they write. However, if there is a word they are struggling with or in the early stages of writing, this is a strategy we will now be using throughout EYFS and KS1. I apologise for it being quite quiet. We could not get it any louder. I am sure your child will be able to help though as they are becoming more familiar with this strategy already.
Reading - The reading scheme/books that we use are produced by Oxford University Press and are linked to the programme mentioned above.
Children are assigned physical books and eBooks from Oxford Owl weekly. www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Children have their own individual logins to enable them to access books that have been specifically assigned to them in correspondence with their phonics learning in school. The decodable books provide opportunities to practice the letters and sounds taught that week and/or revise previously taught sounds.
Below are some examples of the range of books available:
Little Blending Books Words Sparks Project X Phonics Hero Academy Hero Academy Non-fiction Alien Adventures Traditional Tales Story Sparks and inFact
Sepember Welcome Meeting - 18.9.23
Below, you will find a copy of the PowerPoint that was shared during the parent welcome meeting and a copy of some information that was shared / mentioned but was not included in the welcome pack.
We will ensure that welcome packs are sent home with any children whose families were unable to attend the meeting.