Reception

             ^{Mrs Laura Hallett - Reception Teacher and EYFS Lead}

        Mrs Linda Lockyer - Early Years Practitioner                        

Welcome to Reception Class where adventures are a vital part of our day!

Thank you for visiting our class page. My name is Mrs Hallett and I am the Reception teacher and Mrs Lockyer is the EYFS practitioner. We love working as a team with the Reception children and the other staff and children in Nursery. We are an Early Years Foundation Stage Unit which means that children from 3 to 5 years old play and learn together. It is like a happy family in school, with the older children supporting the younger ones and modelling good learning behaviour.

Reception staff believe that it is important to inspire young children and support them in their adventures in the world and in learning. We regularly welcome in parents to share ways to support their chilld's development and learning. We have weekly Welly Time sessions to help children to have mini adventures and believe going on trips outside of class is vital to give children a wider, shared experience of the world.

In Reception we love to learn. We do this in different ways. When the year begins we do lots of learning through play and the staff listen to and support our learning conversations. Once we are settled, after a couple of weeks, we start to do some adult led learning for example learning phonic sounds and early maths. As time goes on we do more adult led learning but learning through play continues to be a large and important part of our day. We have high expectations of ourselves and always put our best effort into our learning.

Learning to work and play with others is a vital part of each day and we also learn ways to regulate our emotions and manage the emotional challenges that we meet. 

For more information about our EYFS, please follow the link below to our EYFS Handbook for parents:

St Sidwell's EYFS Handbook for parents

Please keep a close eye on our Dojo page (only open to family members) to see what Reception have been up to in school. We will update the website page at the end of each half term.