Welcome to Reception!
The staff who work in Reception are:
Class Teacher & Early Years Leader = Miss Peers
Nursery Nurse = Miss Brown
Early Years Practitioners = Ms Dawson
PPA Cover = Mrs Ball
Welcome to Reception - September 2025
Reception class have settled in well to Reception class this year. Please see below our Autumn newsletter.
welcome to reception newsletter sept docx.pdf
Staff in Reception class have shared with the children their 'all about me' profiles to help your child to get to know a little bit more about the adults working in their class.
Starting school - September 2026
Please see the powerpoint below for parents whose children are due to Reception class in September 2026.
It is nearly time to apply for your child's Reception place.
If your child is Catholic, please make sure you bring a copy of your child's baptism certificate to the office.
Please make sure you complete a supplementary form which can be collected from the school office in addition to the online application.
If you have any further questions, please contact the school office: office@olv.bcwcat.co.uk
Many thanks, Miss Peers
reception open morning 2024.pdf
Our Class Saint
Our class saint in Reception class is St Patrick.
Our feast day is the 17th March.
Our Learning
Please see below an overview of our focus in Reception class this half term.
Reading Journey
Phonics
* This half term we are recapping Phase 1 phonics. We are focusing on oral blending and segmenting where children hear the sounds in the words and then blend to read / say the word. We are learning initial sounds of our names and other objects.
* We are learning to recognise the sounds in the following order:
- Set 1: s, a, t, p
- Set 2: i, n, m, d
- Set 3: g, o, c, k
- Set 4: ck, e, u, r
- Set 5: h, b, f, l
- Set 6: ff, ll, ss
English
We are learning how to recognise and write our name. We are starting off by building our name and then writing the individual letters, using our name card as support.
We are focusing on writing pre-writing shapes. These help to form the foundation for handwriting. It is important we start at the correct place and go in the right direction. Please see the picture below.
pre writing shapes with age ranges.pdf
Maths
We are:
* learning how to count to 10 and beyond.
* recognising numbers 1, 2, 3 and knowing how these numbers are composed e.g. 2 is 1 and 1, 3 is 2 and 1.
* sorting and matching objects into different groups e.g. groups by colour, size and/or shape.
R.E
This half term our topic is: Creation & Covenant.
In this topic, we will look at how God has created our world and look at the beauty of the things that he has created. We will use our senses to admire the 'wow' moments of our world.
We will learn that God made us and made each one of us special. We recognise that God loves all of us and is always with us. We will be learning how to make the sign of the cross. Please see the correct way to do this below and practise this at home when you say your daily prayers.
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