Class 1 2025 - 2026

Reception 2025-26

     Mrs Bennett            Mrs Cupples          Mrs Legg            Mrs Marsden         Mrs Macaulay

Mrs Bennett and Mrs Cupples are the teachers in Reception. Mrs Bennett works Monday, Tuesday and alternate Wednesdays, and Mrs Cupples works alternate Wednesdays, Thursday and Friday.

We also have wonderful teaching assistants, Mrs Legg and Mrs Marsden who work with us in Reception across the week.
Mrs Macaualay also covers the class during the week. 

Autumn Term 2025

A very warm welcome to all of our new Reception children and parents starting with us this term. All of the staff in Reception are really looking forward to welcoming the children into school and spending time getting to know our new families. 

Below you will find some information about the different areas of learning we will be covering in Reception this term - we will continue to plan using the children's interests each week. We provide our children with creative provision to ensure they develop the necessary skills across all areas of development. We encourage a love of learning, play and the outdoors. Please don't forget to send P.E. kits into school - these will remain in school for the whole half term. 

Each Monday the children will bring home a weekly newsletter giving any updates and information about how you can help with your child's learning that week.

Topics

We will start this half-term by reading the books, 'Stanley's Stick' and the 'Gingerbread Man. We will plan our provision around these topics and the children's interests. We will focus on creative play and story language. If your child has these books at home and has already read them, don't worry! Children will have the opportunity to explore lots of different activities linked to these books. 

Snack and Lunch
The school lunches have always proven popular with Reception children and we will be supporting all children to get to know the routines and systems at lunch time. We offer at least two choices for lunch each day, which children all choose each morning. Children can also choose to have a piece of toast at snack time, or a bacon sandwich on a Friday. Children are more than welcome to bring their own healthy snack in too. Parents can pay for snack by logging into ParentPay, all school lunches are free. During the first few weeks, you will receive information about how to set up a ParentPay account if you don't have one. Your child will still be able to order lunch and snack without access to your ParentPay account. 

If you have any issues accessing ParentPay, please get in touch with the school office on [email protected]

Phonics and Reading 
We follow the Read Write Inc. programme for phonics. With help from Fred the Frog children will soon have daily phonics sessions. As the children become more confident, they will learn to blend sounds in order to read words. In the next few weeks, we will begin to send home reading folders. At first, children will just bring home books for pleasure that an adult will need to read to the children. We will also be running a Reading and Phonics Workshop in the next few weeks, information about this will be sent out soon. 

We encourage parents to read lots of stories with their child at home.

Maths
Once children are settled in, they will begin to take part in daily Maths sessions. The daily Maths session include direct teaching, carpet time, an investigation or practical activity, as well as continuous provision activities linked to the lesson. This term, we will begin the 'Mastering Number' programme to help deepen children's understanding of early number. Part of this programme follows the 'Numberblocks' series on CBeebies so feel free to watch any of the Numberblocks videos at home, or download the free app on a tablet or other device. 

How to help my child at home
We encourage learning through play wherever possible in Reception so if you would like to help your child at home, allow them opportunities to explore their surroundings, learn new vocabulary and grow from their interests. If you want some quieter time with your child, you can practise writing their name, reading a book, number or letter recognition and formation, or practise forming letters and shapes using ribbon, sand or with a pencil. 

P.E.

We will have P.E. on Wednesdays and Fridays. P.E. kits can be kept in school each half term and children will get changed in school. As the weather starts getting colder, it might be worth sending in some long trousers/jogging bottoms and a jumper for your child to wear during their P.E. lessons. Please remember to label all clothes and shoes.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of us either by email or at drop-off and pick-up, and we will always be happy to help. 

Thank you,

Mrs Bennett and Mrs Cupples 

Please also use the following websites and resources (which can be downloaded at the bottom of the page) to help with your learning at home.

Practise your letter formation:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv80XE_mA4uy5WO-mMcUQ2vX6AdVpIPEk&si=m7SgoH7jl388HOi4

Practise some special friends: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=VoZlPKvL2ZA