Reception Class

Teacher – Neelum Khan
TA support – Janet Gordon and Patrice Francis
PPA Cover – Marsha Duke

Welcome to Reception!

We are really excited about starting our St. Jude’s journey, using all the areas in our classroom to embed our new skills and knowledge.

Our curriculum is cross-curricular, with overarching topics which foster links and connections across the different areas of learning and development.

We look forward to getting busy each day, learning through play, whole class teaching and guided groups.

In our classroom, you may find us enjoying our learning in the small world area, role play area, creation station or the malleable zone.

We also love to spend time outdoors; this could be in our mud kitchen, water tray, construction area or nature garden.

We value reading so much in our school. To develop our love for reading, we have our own reading day where we read 1-1 with an adult and have our home reader changed weekly.

We can also choose a book from our classroom library. We bring in our reading record everyday and ask for adults at home to record what we have read and our thoughts on it.

We use Tapestry, an online app, to record our significant achievements and share these with our families. This is also a key way we can track our progress and know our next steps as learners.

To support and continue our learning at home, we receive home learning tasks on a Thursday and hand it back in electronically on Tuesday, via Tapestry.

Please take a look at our topic webs each half term to find out more!