Welcome to Reception

Nurturing bright futures 

Respect    Responsibility    Resilience  

​Meet The Reception Team

Miss Moore - RP Class Teacher and EYFS Lead
Mrs Nowosad - RG Class Teacher Monday-Wednesday

Mrs Dickson - RG Class Teacher Thursday-Friday

Mrs Taylor - RG Teaching Assistant

Miss Wathen - RP Teaching Assistant

Email RP - Miss Moore: RP@pottersgreen.org.uk

Email RG - Mrs Nowosad and Mrs Dickson: RG@pottersgreen.org.uk

Welcome to Reception!

We are Miss Moore (RP) and Mrs Nowosad and Mrs Dickson (RG).

We are very excited to be a part of your child's early learning journey. 

The work outlined on our class pages will be updated each term and this will inform you about what your child will be learning in school.

General Information

Drop off and Pick up

Reception children are to be dropped off between 8:40-8:50am at the green gate - towards the top of the car park. Children are then collected from here at the end of the day. The green gate will be opened and you are invited to wait outside your child's class at 3:20pm.

Lunches 

All children are entitled to a free school lunch. Every morning children choose what they are going to eat. They have a choice from a meat or vegetarian meal, jacket potato or a sandwich (Tuesday and Thursday only).

All meals are served with a pudding choice of the day or fruit or yogurt.

There is also a daily salad cart that the children can access. 

Water Bottles and Snacks
Children can bring their own water bottles into school to help keep them hydrated throughout the day.

Children will be offered fruit and milk throughout the day. 

Incentives: Positively Reinforcing Good Behaviour

Based on the principle/expectation that good behaviour will be the expected norm, teachers, support staff and the school’s management structures will have a range of formal and informal methods of reinforcing good behaviour. We have a range of school-wide means of rewards which can be used and applied to children following any of our school rules in all areas of school.

Star of the Week

'Star of the week' certificates and stickers are presented to 2 children (1 girl, 1 boy) on a Friday during our whole school celebrations assembly. An award is earned by a pupil who has stood out that week for either their work, behaviour or upholding the values of the school. The teacher will explain clearly why that child has been chosen. The child will receive a certificate which is taken home to parents and a sticker to wear during the day.

Headteacher’s Awards

Children can receive a Headteacher’s Award for an excellent standard of work or when a pupil has improved their work considerably. A sticker is placed on the child’s work and another for them to wear throughout the day. The headteacher also has postcards which can be sent home to parents as a surprise.

Attendance Award

Children who have 100% attendance in a term will be presented with an attendance badge during the end of term celebrations assembly.

Termly Awards

At the end of each term, a Child of Excellence award will be presented in assembly to celebrate a child who has consistently demonstrated the schools core values.

PE 

Your child will need a P.E kit in school. Please send in a named PE kit for your child to get changed in to. They will need pumps, t-shirt and shorts.

PE kits stay in school and will be sent home at the end of each half term.

P.E for Reception is every Friday.

Home Learning

Children will take home their reading folder each night with their RWI books in as well as a book for their grown up to share with them. Each Friday children will bring home a new library book to enjoy reading for pleasure. 

Reading Books 

Your child will bring home their reading folder and in this there will be a 'Book Bag Book'. These will be sent home once your child has learnt all of the RWI set 1 sounds and is able to blend with these sounds.

Please support your child with this by writing in their diary so we know they have read or shared a book with you. Our school expectation is that you read with your child three times per week. Please write the title of the book and sign your name to indicate they have read/shared a book.

They will also have a library book.

The children will access the library once a week on a Friday. 

Please ensure your child's reading book is in their bag every day.

Summer Term

This is an exciting but busy time of year for our lovely Reception children as we enter their final term in Reception before they move on to new adventures in Year One. Our children have grown and matured such a lot over the course of the year and have learnt so much and gained so much new knowledge. We can't wait to see the progress they will continue to make this term and to have lots more fun learning together!

In Literacy, we continue to focus on a new story each week with lots of hooks to engage the children in their learning. We also continue to have daily phonics lessons following the Read, Write, Inc scheme. 

In Maths, we continue to have daily sessions following the White Rose curriculum and also the NCETM Mastery in Number. 

The children have daily access to both the indoor and outdoor learning environments. Even though we are entering the summer months (with hopefully warmer weather) we ask that children have a waterproof coat in school and appropriate footwear as they are outside in all weathers. Wellies can be brought into school, named and kept on their peg as they will use these for outdoor play at times.

With the warmer weather we ask that children bring in a named hat, sunglasses and sun cream. 

The children have their PE lesson on a Friday. PE kits should remain in school at all times and go home to be washed every half term. All items of clothing must be named.

Any help you can provide at home with dressing and undressing will be invaluable as we are supporting the children to become independent at this.