Welcome to Reception 2025/26

A very warm welcome from all the staff

Teachers

Mrs Fortune

Mrs Dollery

Teaching Assistants

Mrs Ashcroft

Mrs Dodd

Mr Anderson

Miss Nikky

Our classrooms provide a calm, stimulating environment that encourages the children to be confident and independent learners.The children have the opportunity to learn indoors and outdoors throughtout the day. We encourage children to 'Learn though Play' and promote communication and language skills. The children experience an enriching and engaging curriculum that dveleops vocabulary, understanding and knowledge.We value each child as an individual and have a child focussed area within our classrooms to celebrate individual interests and experiences. This enables us to drive the learning process through guided play and exploration with individuals at the heart of all that we do.

Each half term we will update the website with information about what your child is learning.. This may include upcoming activities, events and information about topics, books and activities that we are focusing on. We aim to foster excellent home-school links to support you and help your child to get the most out of their EYFS experience at Woodlands Primary school.

Please visit the 'Web Blogs' section to view photographs and images of the activities that your child has been participating in and keep up to date with what your child is learning in school.

Reading books and homework activities

On Thursdays the children will need to make sure that their yellow reading diary is in school and has been signed. as well as returning their reading book. We will change RWI reading books and library books on the same day.. We are promoting a love of reading in Reception and would like you to share the library/picture books with your child and talk about the characters, settings and key events. 

In the Autumn term we will be sending home speed sound cards from the RWI phonics scheme so that the children can consolidate their learning at home. These should be used daily as flashcards to ensure that the children have quick recall and knowledge of all the single letter sounds and special friends. WE send the children home with a sticker and QR code each day so that you know what sound your child has been learning. This will give you access to RWI videos that you can watch with your child. At the end of each week we will also send home the QR codes on a sheet so that you can keep revisiting the sounds that they know.

PLease attend our meeting about RWI phonics scheme on MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER at 5PM

We will be sending home a bingo grid each half term. This will have a selection of activities, games and ideas for you to do with your child that is linked to their learning in school and milestones that need to be reached by the end of the EYFS curriculum/Reception year. We would like you to support your child with these activities. If you wish for your child's work to be celebrated in school we will show and talk about this each week.

Essentials for Reception 

Please can you send the following items into school so that the children have the right essentials for their wider curriculum activities

Pumps

Trainers

Wellies

Waterproofs