Life in Reception

In Reception, children have specialist lessons of Music and PE (twice a week) and PSED and Italian once a week. Swimming lessons are on a Saturday morning.

When children have specialist lessons, they spend the remainder of that session (morning or afternoon) with their own class where they have a ‘focus skills’ session where we teach a specific skill which they can then use independently in provision e.g. woodwork skills, colour mixing techniques, joining and fixing skills.

We have a weekly Reception celebration assembly on a Friday morning in the Rayson Room, where we present our Learning Superhero and Value Champion certificates to the children

We visit Forest School and/or go on an outdoor ‘pop-up classroom’ adventure every week with our class. We have waterproofs in school for Forest School. Our pop-up sessions allow us to explore and learn from our wonderful local area, eg. visiting the Museum Gardens, Homestead Park, York Minster, and local shops and markets.

Children in Reception read 1:1 with the class teacher or teaching assistant every week. We are fortunate to have parent volunteer readers and year 3 buddy readers who also read with the children.