Our Reception Class is taught by Mrs Molloy, Mrs Begum and Mrs Barber
We are very honoured to have Mrs Joan Lord as our Class Governor. She visits our class on a regular basis.
Please scroll down the page to see all the exciting activities that we have been doing in Reception.
In our classroom, there are different areas of provision that the children can access independently or with their friends. Adults in class constantly model play skills, develop language and move the learning of the children on using next steps. Children also completed ‘focussed activities’ with an adult – this can be 1:1 or in small groups.
Areas of provision include : sand, water, creative, small world, construction, ICT, role play, messy, writing, maths and fine motor.
We also have an enclosed outdoor area which the children access throughout the day during continuous provision.
We have a whole school approach to learning cultures at St. James’. These have been adapted to suit the needs of our children in Reception. Over the year, we will use several of the Kagan structures during our carpet time. We will also develop our thinking skills using De Bono’s thinking hats. The children are constantly encouraged to develop skills to support their learning through the 5 R’s – responsibility, reflectiveness, resourcefulness, resilience and readiness. We have five cute characters to help us with this! The children are constantly encouraged to ‘have a try on their own first’, ‘try again, don’t give up’, ‘show they are ready to listen’ and to ‘choose it – use it- put it away!’
‘GROWTH AND CHANGE’ – The children have been very engaged during this topic. The children’s interest was sparked when they arrived at school to be greeted with the task of going on a carrot hunt! Some of the carrots had been nibbled on; but the question we asked was, “Who by?”
Reception Class have enjoyed the role play in the class ‘Garden Centre’ and have enjoyed a number of stories linked to growing. We have been planting cress heads and broad beans and painting observational pictures of a variety of vegetables.
In maths we have been learning about money and have used coins to buy vegetables from the the farm shop.
The children are very busy in their learning with completing challenges from our class challenge rainbow. At the end of each week children who have completed all the challenges receive a reward.
