Reception

At Springfield, we understand that starting school is an important and exciting step in every child’s life. We work hard to ensure that children and their families settle into school life as quickly as possible and can start enjoying the process of making new friends and learning new skills.

Communication with parents and carers is an important part of the settling in process and you will be encouraged to use Tapestry, our online learning journal, to find out and share information about your child. You will also be invited in to meet your child’s class teacher during the first half term and will receive regular feedback via their Springfield home communication book, which each child brings home each day.

In Reception, your child will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. This sets the standards for the learning, development and care of your child.

Your child’s learning in Reception will be organised into three main areas of development:

• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Personal and Social Development

And four specific areas of learning:

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Play will form an important part of your child’s time in Reception, with much of the learning being introduced through structured play and some adult-led activities. As the year progresses, the learning will become a little more formal in preparation for Year 1.

During Reception, your child will be taught to read using Phonics, an approach to reading that focuses on building words using sounds. At this age, your child will also be introduced to numbers, counting and some simple sums.

You can find out more about our Phonics programme, Read Write Inc. by looking at this RWI PowerPoint presentation which will also show you how you can support your child’s learning at home.

16th October 2024

Thank you to all our Reception parents who were able to make our writing meeting this morning. Please see below for all the information that was presented.

Autumn Term- Traditional Tales

11/11/2024

In Early Years we are reading traditional tales.  This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  As part of Science Day on Tuesday we made and tasted porridge.  We talked about what ingredients we needed to make porridge and what they looked like. Then we mixed the ingredients together and discussed what they looked like when they were combined and how it changed when the porridge was cooked.

We tasted 4 different bowls of porridge. We noticed they all tasted different and tried to use words to describe them.  We tried porridge that had been flavoured with salt, cinnamon and honey and one that was plain.

In Early Years we have been learning about people who help us, both in school and in our local community.  We have been visited by the fire service and we spent time looking at and learning about the fire engine. We looked at some of the equipment they have on the fire engine that they use to help rescue people or put out fires with. We saw the flashing light and loved having a look inside the fire engine.  Back in the classroom we listened very carefully to what the Firefighters were telling us about keeping ourselves safe. They told us to ring 999 if we discover we have a fire and to check at home that we can find our smoke alarms…they even asked us to ask our grown ups to test that the smoke alarms are working!

Dr Brown came to visit and talked to us about what he does to help people. He told us how important it is for us to eat lots of vegetables and have lots of exercise to help keep us healthy. He showed us the equipment a doctor uses including a stethoscope, heart monitor and instruments that check our reflexes are working and that look inside our ears, mouth and eyes.

Zoe the vet came to talk to us about how we can look after our pets, she also bought Dylan the dog with her too!  Zoe taught as that if we want to stroke a dog we should stand like a tree, ask our parents/carers permission and the dog owners permission, make slow movements, offer our hand to sniff and be very gentle.  We all had a chance to stroke Dylan. He was very soft and so were we.