Welcome to our Reception Webpage!
We would like to tell you all about Reception and the exciting things we do. We will update this webpage to keep you informed of the exciting things we do and to give you some tips on how you can support your child. Please use your child's Tapestry account too!
Mrs Kimitris Miss Marsden
(Teacher and EYFS Leader) (Teacher)
Mrs Woodcock Mrs Edwards Mrs Owen
(RK Teaching Assistant) (RM Teaching Assistants)
Organisation of classes within Reception
We are a two form entry school which provides 60 places within each Reception cohort. Each Reception cohort is broken down in to two classes of 30 children. Both classes share an open plan indoor and outdoor learning environment.
Our Aims
At Woodhey’s our aim is to provide children with a wide range of stimulating, creative and challenging early learning experiences within a secure, caring and inclusive environment, both within the classroom and outdoors. Our school values of together we achieve more, challenging ourselves to grow and flourish,happy and passionate to learn and caring for and respecting others are at the heart of what we do.
We provide children with opportunities to explore and enquire: developing their understanding of the world around them through 'real life' experiences, stimulating resources, and adult led and child-led activities.
We aim to offer every child a consistent and personalised learning experience to ensure that all children who attend our EYFS department make good progress from where their learning journey started and are not left behind. During carpet sessions and continuous provision, we focus upon each child's personal next steps to ensure they are given the best possible opportunities to excel within our environment and achieve their age-related expectation (Good Level of Developement).
Please find more information in our EYFS Policy.
Our Curriculum
Our early years setting follows the curriculum as outlined in the 'EYFS Statutory Framework' and the 'Development Matters' guidance material.
The EYFS framework includes 7 areas of learning and development that are equally important and inter-connected. However, 3 areas known as the prime areas are seen as particularly important for igniting curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building children’s capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.
The prime areas are:
- Communication and language
- Physical development
- Personal, social and emotional development
The prime areas are strengthened and applied through 4 specific areas:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
Parent- School Relationships
We strongly believe that positive parent-school relationships can influence a child's school experience and ensure they continue to flourish. We aim to keep parents up to date with their child's learning through a variety of ways. These include:
- Tapestry (Online Learning Journey that has at least 2 observations added each week)
- Personalised Next Steps that are released 4 times a year (Autumn, Spring and Summer Term)
- End of Year Report (Summer Term)
- Parents Evenings (Autumn and Spring Term)
- Parent Workshops ( Autumn, Spring and Summer Term)
- Stay and Play Sessions (Spring and Summer Term)
- Weekly Parent Home Learning Guides
- Reading Records that are updated weekly
- Daily Contact at the start and end of school
- Home Library System
- Tree-mendous Behaviour Leaves (Home Learning Link)
- Golden Certificates from our Celebration Assemblies
Please do not hesitate to speak to a member of staff if you have any problems accessing Tapestry.
Reception Tour Videos
We have made two Reception tour videos to show our new parents our Reception setting. Both Reception classes share the same outdoor and indoor continuous provision but they have separate carpet and tray areas. Please play the videos below to find out a little bit more:
RM1 Tour Video
RM2 Tour Video
Parental Support
Welcome Workshop (Start of Year)
We run a Parent Welcome Workshop before children start at our school, to ensure we help parents learn about our school systems and key information. Click on the links below to open up the PowerPoint.
Tapestry and Systems Workshop (Autumn Term)
For those parents who would like to recap on our parent workshop or who were unable to attend, please find a copy of our parent workshop Powerpoint below. Click on the links below to open up the PowerPoint and the Booklet.
Reading and Phonics Workshop (Spring Term)
We ran a Parent Reading and Phonics Workshop to support parents with home reading. Click on the links below to open up the PowerPoint.
Stay and Play Sessions
Please remember to check our ParentMail messages to see when our next Parent Stay and Play session is scheduled for.
Phonics
To help you assist your child with their phonics, we have attached two videos below - one shows the correct way to say each sound, and the other shows our jolly phonics songs that the children learn as part of their lessons. We are thrilled with the progress that the children are making with their sound books and we thank you for your support at home. As they begin to get reading books, we ask you to encourage them with simple words that can be sounded out, and help them with some of the trickier vocabulary that they won't yet be familiar with. Let them make up their own stories and use the picture clues to help them decipher the words. If you can sign the yellow reading record each time you hear them at home we can then change their books on a Tuesday. The children are also making good use of their sound books and practising writing out their sounds - this is a fabulous way to help them become independent writers!
Our News
Please log in to your Tapestry account to view your child's personal learning experience at our school. It is a good system to support home discussions about school days. Your Tapestry login email has been sent to you. If you are unable to access your child's account, then please let our EYFS team know and we will be happy to help.