Reception
Welcome to Reception
Miss Whitehead, Mrs Vasiliou and Miss Cardell
We learn through creative play and exploration with emphasis on independent learning and choice. The activities are fun and interactive and always link to the children’s current interests. Our curriculum covers 7 areas of learning and development: Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language, Physical Development, Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design.
The learning environment is always set up with a variety of exciting activities that the children can freely access. We record the children’s progress through observations that are recorded on each child’s Tapestry profile. The children enjoy sharing things they particularly enjoy that they would like included in their Tapestry profile.
During the Autumn term our topics are Ourselves and Festivals. The Spring and Summer term topics rotate and are adapted based on the children’s interests. Some topics we may cover are Space, Journeys, Traditional Tales, Water and Growing. We also visit the Forest School three times throughout the year!
Each child in Reception has a Year 6 buddy who provides them with fantastic support. The children become great friends with their buddies and really look up to them. These relationships help to develop their confidence, self-esteem and social skills.
Phonics
At St Saviour’s we encourage children to fall in love with reading. We want them to develop a positive attitude towards reading and recognise that it is an important life skill. We hope that children value reading as an enjoyable activity but also understand that they can read for information.
Initially we teach reading through phonics. At St. Saviour’s we follow GES Simply Letters and Sounds. Children are taught to split words into sounds (segment) and put sounds together to make words (blend). In Foundation Stage and Year One, children are taught phonics daily. Our phonics lessons follow the same structure across the school. We also teach ‘tricky’ words which are not phonetically plausible within phonics lessons. Children are encouraged to use their phonetic knowledge and understanding in reading and writing. We find that the children are more confident at using a range of engaging vocabulary in their writing thanks to their phonetic skills, knowledge and understanding.
Please find below a list of websites that you can use to help support Phonics learning at home. There is also an attachment below of the presentation used in the Parent Phonic Workshop.
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