Reception / Dosbarth Derbyn
Welcome to Reception / Croeso i'r Dosbarthiadau Derbyn
Class Mantras
'We all work together' RS
'The sky is the limit' RE
The Reception Team / Tim y Dosbarthiadau Derbyn
The class teachers are:
RS: Mrs Rayer (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) & Mrs Street (Thurs, Friday)
RD: Mrs Evans (Monday-Friday) Maternity leave covered by Miss Taylor
The teaching assistants are:
Mrs Morgan, Miss Kearle and Mrs Jabaransari.
Times / Amserau
Reception pupils are brought to the lower playground (Foundation Phase playground) to enter school between 8.45 and 8.55am
RS pupils enter via the steps from the lower playground leading to the double doors
RE pupils enter via the classroom door, by Nursery
Pick-up is at 3.15pm
RS pupils are picked up at the steps from the lower playground leading to the double doors
RE pupils are picked up at the classroom door, by Nursery
(Reception PE lessons will take place on Fridays)
Snacks and Lunch / Byrbrydau a Chinio
Snacks
Please could your child bring a reusable bottle full of water and fruit or vegetables for snack. If they bring small fruit such as grapes or cherry tomatoes, please could these be chopped in half. NO NUTS please. This includes any foods that contain nuts such as peanut butter, Nutella etc.
Lunches
Reception pupils are entitled to Universal Free School Meals, which you will need to order by 8am each morning or at the beginning of every week. Children may bring a packed lunch, if preferred.
What & How we learn / Beth a Sut yr ydym yn dysgu
Learning Projects:
Autumn 1 - Getting to know you
Autumn 2 - Do you want to be friends?
Spring 1 - Dangerous Dinosaurs
Spring 2 - Puppets and Pop-ups
Summer 1 - At the beach
Summer 2 - On the Farm
Personal Equipment
Everything that your child needs will be provided for them, so please ensure that they do not bring any personal items to school.
It would assist us greatly in school if you could ensure that your child's name is clearly marked on all items of clothing, especially cardigans, jumpers, coats, bags, lunch boxes and drink bottles.
Homework
Reading books will be sent home at your child's level. We will also then be able to assign books to their Bug Club online library.
Outdoor Learning
Reception's Outdoor Learning session will be on a Tuesday. Please can you send your child into school with a pair of wellies, or you can send in a pair to keep on their pegs.
The Curriculum in Reception
The Curriculum consists of What Matters Statements which are found within these Six Areas of Learning
Languages, Literacy and Communication (which aims to support learning across the whole curriculum and to enable learners to gain knowledge and skills in Welsh, English and international languages as well as in literature)
For each Learning Project, we have key texts to inspire each writing journey.
We teach phonics in groups each week, following the Letters and Sounds programme.
Handwriting is taught weekly using the Penpals scheme.
Welsh is taught through daily Helpwr Heddiw sessions, in which the teacher chooses a helper to assist with Welsh games, vocabulary and commands for that day.
Maths and Numeracy
In Reception, maths is taught practically using a range of physical resources e.g Numicon, 5s and 10s frames, multi-link, counting items etc. to develop their visual and pictorial learning skills.
‘Maths Mouse' helps develop mathematical application and reasoning skills.
In the Spring Term, we begin to work on Big Maths CLIC and Learn-its each week.
Science and Technology
This area draws on the disciplines of biology, chemistry, computer science, design and technology, and physics to enhance learners’ knowledge and understanding of the world.
These are carefully planned within a broad and balanced curriculum.
We teach science through all our Learning Projects, for example, during the Learning Project 'Dangerous Dinosaurs' the children work out how to rescue a toy dinosaur from the water, during our 'Puppets and Pop'ups' Learning Project, the children design and make a variety of puppets based on stories that we have read.
We use digital technology through all our learning projects alongside discrete digital/IT lessons, for example, in our Puppets and Pop Ups Learning Proejct we use Chatterpix to record what the characters from the story are saying.
Health & Wellbeing
Heath and wellbeing is at the heart of all learning. To support the health and wellbeing of the children, we teach weekly Jigsaw lessons.
Weekly PE lessons: PE will be taught every Friday.
There is an area in classrooms for the children to freely access calming resources.
Reception has a large outdoor learning area which children have access to during the day as a part of our daily provision.
Reception children run a minimum of 2 laps on our running track daily.
Expressive Arts (this spans five disciplines: art, dance, drama, film and digital media and music)
Throughout the year, children have the opportunity to study different artists within each Learning Project e.g. the Welsh artist Gwyn Jones and land artist Andy Goldsworthy.
Dance and music is taught through each Learning Project. For example, in Puppets and Pop Ups, the children create music to act out a story with the puppets they have made. During Diwali the children learn and perform a special dance.
Reception pupils enjoy role-play throughout each learning project as they re-enact scenes from stories like Room on a Broom and Goldilocks and the Three Bears and imagine and illustrate how characters are feeling.
Humanities (this Area encompasses geography; history; religion, values and ethics; business studies and social studies)
Geography is taught through our Learning Projects Getting to know you and Do you want to be friends? The children learn about people that help us in the school and locate them in our school community. They also look at the features of a beach in our Learning Project At the Beach.
History is taught through Learning Projects like At the Beach. We start by visiting the beach, we then look at photos of the beach from the past and compare now and then.
We learn about different religious celebrations and how they are celebrated and ‘special books’ and ‘special places’.
Teacher/TA reads a story to the class every day (voted for by pupils)
2 Bug Club books are allocated weekly.
Physical Education / Ymarfer Corff
Physical Development
Every Friday Reception pupils will have a PE lesson, either outside or in the hall.
On their PE day, please can your child come to school in their PE kit so that they do not have to change in school. (Black or navy shorts /joggers/leggings, t-shirt/school polo top, school jumper/cardigan and trainers.)
Learning Areas / Mannau Dysgu
Reception Classrooms are located in the right hand corridor as you walk down from the main office.
RS is the first classroom in the corridor. We have our learning area where we do focussed teaching and interventions. The next classroom is RE and at the bottom end of the corridor is a second learning area.
The small hall (opposite the main office) is used for lunches, assemblies & PE lessons as well as some of Letters and Sounds group work.
We have outdoor learning on Tuesdays. Learners are given the opportunities to explore and discover various aspects of their natural environment outside. The outdoor activities planned often link to their indoor learning projects.
We do many activities that involve being out exploring the wider school grounds e.g. collecting natural items.
Trips: we visit the National Museum of Wales as part of our Dangerous Dinosaurs Learning Project, Barry Island Beach as part of our At the Beach Learning Project and the farm as part of our On the Farm Learning Project.
Communication, and sharing with Parents/Carers / Cyfathrebu a rhannu
Reception use the platform Seesaw as a tool for home school communication as well as setting homework and recording their digital learning journeys in school.
We will send out any announcements and reminders using the messaging part of Seesaw.
Parents & Carers can also use the messaging part of Seesaw to communicate with class teachers.
Staff greet the children every morning at the door of the classroom and dismiss them here at the end of the day. Parents have an opportunity to speak to staff then and can also send messages via Seesaw or Lakeside School email. Please be mindful that teachers may not see messages during the teaching day, so please telephone the office for urgent messages.
Homework
Reading books will be sent home at the appropriate level for your child. We will also assign books to their Bug Club online library.
Homework will be set every fortnightly, using Seesaw, whereby teachers can set homework digitally for children to complete on a device at home, which can then be sent back for the teacher to respond to.
Please make sure that you only complete the work in the homework folder, not the class folder.
The class folder contains work that they will complete in school and it is uploaded for you to look at.
When we mark the work, we use A for achieved, PA for partly achieved and MS for more support / work needed.
Your child will bring their reading folder home once a week. The day it needs to be returned will be clearly marked on the reading folder.
Helping Your Child at Home / Helpu eich plentyn
Reception hold a Curriculum Meeting in the July before you child starts school.
Reception hold a reading meeting on Thursday October 3rd at 14:30 in the small hall to inform y ou how we teach reading in school and how you can help your child with their reading at home.
There will be Parent sharing sessions through the year for which parents are invited into school to see what the children have been learning in their most recent Learning Project.
Parent consultations take place twice a year - in October and March
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Rayer, Mrs Street, Miss Taylor, Mrs Evans and the Reception Team
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