Our Reception children are in Red class and are grouped into four learning groups: Poppy, Cherry, Ruby and Berry. These groups are flexible to allow children to make friends across the whole cohort and to ensure our Reception staffing team know and understand all the children very well.
PE
PE will be on a Monday and a Friday morning. Please send your child in dressed in their PE kit on Mondays and Fridays.
Reading
Please share simple stories and rhymes with your child daily to build their love for reading. Children will be sent home with sounds to practise each week or a phonics reading book as they develop in their level of reading. Books should be read daily for the week; we will change it every Wednesday.
Phonics
In Reception children learn these sounds:
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, th, sh, ch, ng, nk
When they are confident and accurate with these sounds, children go on to learn ai, ee, igh, oa, oo.
Sounds are sent home regularly with links to helpful videos. Additionally, you can visit our phonics page for parent guides to help you support your child with learning phonics at home.
Our Learning
Details of learning in our class can be found in Our Learning pages. The curriculum map below is a summary overview for the year.
RECEPTION CURRICULUM MAP 25/26
Our Reception Welcome Booklet
Here is a link to our Reception Welcome Booklet with information about the Reception Team and our curriculum.
Welcome to Reception September 2025.docx
Parent Workshops
In Reception we run several parent workshops throughout the year. These informal sessions provide parents with opportunity to come into class and experience their child’s learning alongside them. We talk about the skills your child is learning through the playful experiences we provide, how this links to the Early Years Curriculum and the underpinning early years research into child development. The topics range from fine motor skills development for writing, how we teach phonics, Drawing Club to our very popular Christmas Crafts workshop. We have had great feedback from our parents!
I attended phonics and Christmas crafts. Phonics was eye-opening and I feel it has really helped me understand how to support R in his learning. Christmas crafts was brilliant fun, very well organised and we both really loved it!
The workshops were really special and I really loved having the opportunity to join my daughter at school and see her having fun with classmates and teachers. Was especially impressed with the dough gym! Thank you 🙂
We really appreciate the time the Early Years Team is taking to put on these extra sessions. Thank you.
It’s so lovely to be included. It’s lovely to get to see how my child learns along with all his friends.
The children looked amazing dressed in their animal costumes. They chose to support Bath Cats & Dogs Home as one of the school’s chosen charities following a talk from some of our Pupil Voice students earlier this term.
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This morning in Reception we came together for the 2 minute silence. The children were very respectful and all remained silent for the whole 2 minutes. We watched wreaths being laid at the Cenotaph, listened to Big Ben’s chimes and …
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We took all of Reception into the hall for PE this morning. It was an amazing sight to see nearly 60 children happily engaging in our guided dance session with amazing team work. We learnt about how our hearts and …
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The children worked really hard to learn all of our Harvest songs. What an amazing first performance in front of an audience.
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All children have settled well into Reception and are becoming more confident and independent with our routines and learning. We have now started formal phonics and maths lessons as well as pre-writing in drawing club. We are very proud of …
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This morning the children have enjoyed being independent artist. They can now confidently select their own brushes and paint, explore colour by mixing their own colour palate and clean the brushes and table by themselves. Today they have chosen to …
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It was wonderful to welcome so many inspirational visitors into our school this morning as part of our annual Careers’ Day. This is always an exciting day and an opportunity for children to see our CARE values demonstrated by professionals …
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Today in Reception we were scientists. Our first experiment was to make a rainbow using kitchen towel, felt tips and water. We started a felt tip rainbow at each end of our kitchen towel then placed each end in a …
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It was lovely to see so many parents joining us in Red Class to read with their children on Wednesday. The children looked amazing in their costumes today. They started their day with a whole school parade in the main …
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Reception have made the most of the cold weather this week. We have enjoyed making snowballs, snowmen and an igloo! We have explored ice with paint, glitter, shells, sea animals and tools frozen in it. The children used their problem …
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