Welcome to Autumn Term in Reception
(2025-2026)

Welcome to Reception!

We are excited to welcome you and your child to our Reception class. This is a special year where your child will be discovering new skills, making new friends, and developing a love of learning through play and exploration. Our team is here to nurture, support and celebrate each child as they grow in confidence and independence. We look forward to working in partnership with you to make this a happy and successful start to school life.

Our Reception Team

Class Teacher: Mrs Van de Weg 

Support Staff:

Mrs Warner - Monday am/pm, Wednesday am, Wednesday pm PPA Cover, Thursday am/pm, Friday am

Ms Wilson - Tuesday am, Wednesday pm

Ms Thomson - Tuesday pm

Additional Information

Please ensure your child has the following items in school every day:

A named water bottle for classroom use. This is additional to a lunchtime drink if your child is bringing a packed lunch from home.

A warm waterproof jacket as our learning environment includes being outside in all weathers.

A named warm hat or sun hat, as appropriate.

Wellie boots - please send in a pair of named wellie boots to be kept at school for outdoor use.

Puddle suit - please send in a puddle suit or waterproofs to keep in school. As the weather changes the playground becomes slippery and often stays wet for extended periods of time. Waterproof clothing prevents several changes of clothes during the school day and keeps their coat dry to go home in at the end of the school day.

Optional items

Long scarves can get caught up on playground equipment. Snoods are suitable.

Gloves may be worn if your child can put them on independently. Mittens are suitable.

Monday - Please return your child's library book.

Tuesday - PE day (Children come to school dressed in PE kit. Usual school jogging bottoms or shorts with their House T-shirt and trainers. No lace-ups please.)

Wednesday - Please return the reading book from our reading scheme along with your child's reading record.

Library day (Your child will come home with a new library book.)

Friday - Your child will come home with a new reading book from our reading scheme.

Curriculum

Children in our Early Years phase follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Curriculum, which consists of seven areas of learning:

3 Prime Areas - Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED).

4 Specific Areas -  Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design.

We teach children by ensuring challenging, playful opportunities across both the prime and specific areas of learning. We recognise that all children develop and learn at different rates and so our EYFS curriculum is designed flexibly to mee the needs of all individuals. We support individual learning through our skilful interactions and observations which lead to detailed next step planning.

The Characteristics of Effective learning underpin our curriculum. The ways in which the children engage with others and their environment, playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically underpin learning and development across all areas and support children to remain effective and motivated learners.

At the end of Reception, children are assessed against the Early Learning Goals (ELGs), which describe the knowledge, skills and understanding expected at this stage.

Please see the pages below for further curriculum details such as the curriculum newsletter. 

Tapestry

Our school uses Tapestry, an online learning journal, to share your child's learning journey with you. Through Tapestry, we record special moments, progress and achievements, and we love being able to give you a window into your child's time in Reception. We also encourage you to get involved by uploading your own photos and videos from home, helping us to build a rich picture of your child's learning and experiences.