1. St. Paul’s R.C. Primary School Welcome to Reception!

2. Reception Staff Mrs Eddleston Mrs Smith Mrs Evans
Class Teacher Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant

3. What is the EYFS?
The EYFS document combines Early Years and Foundation Stage. This creates a national curriculum for 5s and under
7 areas of learning through areas of provision and directed activities
All areas of learning are reflected inside and outdoors.

4. PSED Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Making friends
Learning rules
Learning daily routines
Learning about other
cultures and respect
Understanding boundaries
Making relationships with adults

5. PSED - How can you help?
You can help by encouraging your child to use the toilet independently, wash their hands, put on and fasten their coats.
Playing games which encourage sharing and turn taking will help your child to build their social skills.

6. PD Physical Development
Gross and fine motor skills
Malleable area
Mark making area
Shoes and coats
PE – getting changed too
Dance
Outdoor area
Pencil control

7. Physical Development – How can you help?
Give children time to run, jump, climb and play outdoors
Encourage children in activities such as building, drawing, threading beads, or filling and emptying containers in the water – all of which develop manipulative skills.

8. Communication & Language
Speaking
Listening
Role play

9. Communication & Language - How you can help?
Singing songs and nursery rhymes
Taking time to listen to them talking about things they’ve done and answering and their questions

10. Literacy
Phonics
Recognising and writing name
Reading
Writing

11. Literacy - How you can help?
Reading books (stories, information books, newspapers, magazines, comics etc), encouraging your child to join in and talk about books
Modelling correct letter formation and pencil grip

12. Mathematics Counting Recognising numbers and what they mean
Calculation
Shape
Pattern
Problem solving
Measuring

13. Mathematics How can you help?
Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment
Comparing things which are heavy and light or long and short
Pointing out numbers all around
Singing counting songs and rhymes
Counting, adding and subtracting anything and everything - socks, cars, shopping, cutlery, fingers and toes!

14. Expressive Arts & Design
Role play
Art
Painting
Drawing
Dance
Music
Singing
Story
Imagination

15. Expressive Arts & Design – How can you help?
Talk with your child about their imaginative play and join in if possible!
Encourage them to be flexible in their thinking and use of materials and praising them for their efforts or ideas as well as the end product

16. Understanding the World
Exploring
Investigating
Learning about other cultures, places, things that happened in the past and living things
ICT
Constructing
Educational visits
Outdoor area

17. Understanding the World
How can you help?
Talk with your child about the places they go and things they see in the world around them
Answering and asking questions - what if…? Why do you think…? How did you…?
Letting children join in with everyday activities - washing up, cooking, shopping, helping in the garden...
If possible let them have access
to ICT, CD players, mobile phones,
computers etc

18. General Information School day 8:55-3:20pm Breakfast club 8:00-8.55am
School dinners are free
Water bottle – water only

19. Jolly Phonics Actions
Letter formation

20. Timetable Afternoon Break Morning Break Milk and Fruit Lunch time
8.55 – 9.15
9.15 – 9.45
9.45 – 10.35
11.00 – 11.50
11.50 – 12.10
12.15-
1.15
2.30 – 2.45
Mon
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Whole School Assembly
Literacy
Milk and Fruit
Morning Break
Maths
Phonics
Lunch time RE
Makaton
Afternoon Break
Topic
Story time and home time
Tues
Name writing
Infant Assembly
P.E
R.E.
Wed
Class Worship PE
PPA
(Music)
Thurs
Library
R.E. Topic
Fri
Reading
Show and Tell
Garden
Whole School Celebration
Assembly

21. Uniform Reminder
Uniform and bags need to be clearly labelled with names please!

22. Thank you! Tonight Plastic wallet to take home Look around Reception
Feel free to ask questions!
Thank you!