1. How to help your child succeed in Reception!
Welcome
How to help your child succeed in Reception!

2. Great start The children have made an excellent start!!!!
Taking part in activities.
Getting to know rules and routines.

3. Keeping in touch! You can expect to be kept informed-
Planner – please sign consent - looked at daily
No news is good news
Parent’s Evenings, Oct, March & July
Red Letter-every Friday and our Weekly newsletter/ blog online
Reports
Web-site
DO NOT worry alone!

4. Please share Who is picking your child up if not already done so
Any medical concerns/general wellbeing/appointments e.g. nits
Food allergies – please avoid bringing in all nuts
Hot Dinners
Snacks, please do not send in too much
My World Books …

5. Our expectations We expect a high standard of behaviour/manners.
5 Classroom Rules (sharing, listening, kind & careful hands and feet, good manners and hands up)
Traffic Light.
Stickers, Certificates, Raffle tickets, star of the day, star writers.
Increased independence.

6. A typical morning 9.00 Registration/Book change (see planners)
9.20 Phonics
9.45 Wizzy Word Work – literacy
10.20 Frog Time
11.20 Handwriting
11.45 Lunch

7. Typical afternoon 1.00 Registration & Guided Reading
1.30 Number Crunching- Mathematics
1.50 Frog Time
2.45 Playtime – fruit & milk
3.00 Hall of Fame/Story/Singing
3.30 Home-time

8. Early Years Curriculum
There are 7 areas of learning, they are all equally as important.
Prime areas
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Communication & Language
Physical development
Specific areas
Literacy
Maths
Understanding of the World
Expressive Arts

9. Mathematics
Numbers Number recognition. Number formation-see sheet. Counting Objects reliably 1-1. One more/one less. Combining groups. Learn its…. Shape Space and Measure Recognise 2D shapes. Using language to compare quantities/weight/length/size Use language of time – sequence events Use positional language

10. Literacy Writing To reach the ELG they must be able to..
Use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
We will begin with the simple segmenting & blending of words then look at captions and sentences before trying more creative writing later on in the year.
Reading
To reach the ELG they must be able to…
Read and understand simple sentences.
Use phonic knowledge accurately to decode regular and read them allowed accurately.
They read common irregular words (tricky words)
Demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read (comprehension)
Please see reading prompt books

11. Planning and Assessment
We plan using Foundation Stage Curriculum.
There are 17 Early Learning Goals that your child is assessed against. More details throughout the year.
We carry out both informal and formal assessments.
Each child has an online Learning Journey that you can contribute towards (WOW Stars in ‘My World’ books).

12. Thankyou for coming… Do be proud of your child. Do come and see us.
Questions?