Welcome to Reception

THE Reception TEAM

Read our Spring 1 letter : Here

 Read our Project Map Here

Ways to get in touch: Messages Via Seesaw (We may respond to these outside of teaching hours) - in an emergency please phone the School Office 01242 512792). 

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework (EYFS Statutory Framework) sets the standard for learning, development and care for children from birth to five. 

There are seven areas of learning and development and all areas are important and inter-connected. 

At Gloucester Road Primary School, we build upon the children's previous knowledge, skills and experiences and provide a happy and fulfilling Reception year. We aim to ensure the children are keen and motivated learners as a firm foundation for future learning as they enter Key Stage One and beyond. 

We aim to foster an 'I can Do It' attitude from the very beginning. Our curriculum is carefully planned to take into account the different rates at which children develop. We acknowledge, understand and carefully plan for effective teaching and learning for our children through activities that promote engagement, motivation and thinking: 

Playing and Exploring (Engagement)

• Find out and exploring
• Playing with what they know
• Being willing to 'have a go'

Active Learning (Motivation)

• Being involved and concentrating 
• Keep trying
• Enjoying achieving what they set out to do.

Creative and Critical Thinking (Thinking)

• Having their own ideas
• Making links
• Working with ideas. 

Our Learning Environment

We are proud to support and develop our children's progress and learning through interesting and exciting opportunities both in our indoor and outdoor classrooms with our enabling environments. The Outdoor Classroom is a space where children can be actively involved without the restrictions of noise and space. Outdoor Learning provides opportunites for:

• Developing gross motor skills (essential to help develop fine motor skills such as for writing or using scissors)
• Creating large scale projects using large construction materials
• Taking risks
• Problem solving skills
• First hand experiences of nature and the environment
• Gardening
• Forest School 
• and many more ...

The children will be taught in a variety of whole class, small groups and individually depending on the learning intention and individual needs. 

We teach reading and writing through Read, Write Inc (Phonics) and Maths is taught through CanDo (Maths). We plan the majority of the learning and experiences through a Key Text or story to help foster links between the inter-connected areas of learning.