Reception

Hello and welcome to Reception!

We hope you have all had a lovely summer.

We have so many exciting things planned to help the children settle into William Shrewsbury.

If you need to contact your child's class teacher, please put messages

in the blue home-school diary.

Please follow our adventures - @WilliamShrews

Staff

Reception Green
Mrs J Pearson – Class Teacher and EYFS Lead

Reception Blue
Mrs E Hardwick – Class Teacher

Reception Red
Mrs Patrick and Mrs Yeomans – Class Teacher

Our teaching assistants and inclusion staff are Mrs Nobbs, Mrs Adams, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Davis, Mrs Burton, Miss Upton, Miss Broome, Miss Gray, Miss Gilman, Mrs Pearson, Mrs Tricker and Mrs Salt

Useful information

Labelling Uniform

Please label all uniform so it can be returned to your child promptly.

PE

We change for PE on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please make sure your child has a white T-shirt, a white pair of shorts and a pair of black elastic pumps in a PE bag which will be kept in school. Please name these items including the PE bag.

Home School Diaries

Please can you send in your child's Home School Diary every day as we may need to send you a message.

Other Equipment

Please send in a named water bottle for your child everyday filled with fresh water only not juice as keeping hydrated is very good for young brains and good learning. Also make sure your child has a waterproof coat in school everyday. We try and use our outdoor area everyday even if it is a little cold, damp and blowy.

Autumn Term

Marvellous Me
Hello Autumn
Let's Celebrate

Spring Term

It's Cold Outside
Ready, Steady, Grow! (Including a visit to the farm!)

Summer Term

The Perfect Pet
Roar and Stomp!

At the very bottom of the page, you will find attachments to all our Reception topics, as well as some fun activities that you can complete at home with your child to help support their learning at this stage in the school year.

Useful Websites

Phonicsplay Username: williams Password: tigger
Twinkl
Phonic sounds
Hungry Little Minds

How you can help at home

We encourage the children to be as independent as possible. Getting changed for PE can be quite tricky, so being able to undress and dress independently can really help with this. We also spend a lot of time outside, so being able to put a coat on and zip it up independently really helps too. We are very pleased with how excited the children are to taste all the different foods at lunch time and we are so proud of how hard they are trying to use a knife and fork correctly.

The children are having to listen to and follow lots of instructions in school. A great way of developing listening skills is to go on a listening walk. This could be indoors or outdoors, encouraging the children to listen carefully and describe what they can hear.

We are providing lots of opportunities in school to develop the children’s fine motor skills. This will help them to hold their pencil firmly as they draw and write. Threading is a great way to develop fine motor skills, whether it is with beads or buttons, or making necklaces out of dried pasta. As is playing with construction toys, small toys and cutting and sticking activities. The children also love playdough which is great for strengthening little fingers! Please see below for a playdough recipe you can make together at home.

It is very important that children are able to recognise their name. Look out for the individual name cards we will be sending home shortly. These cards contain dots and arrows to show the children how to form each letter correctly. You could also write your child’s name on pieces of paper and hide them around the house for them to find.

We are sharing lots of lovely story books in school and the children love listening to them.

‘Reading aloud with children is known to be the most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.’ (Marilyn Jager Adams)

Please try and make time to read to your child every day. These are also special moments your child will always remember.

Topic Webs

Fine Motor Skills Activity Ideas Fine Motor Skills Challenge Cards Fine Motor Skills Threading Cards Pencil Control Sheets Scissor Control Sheets Letter Formation Sheet Hello Autumn Let's Celebrate Marvellous Me Roar and Stomp Ready, Steady, Grow!It's Cold Outside Curriculum Overview phase-3-sound-button-powerpoint /docs/The_Perfect_Pet_.pdf