Reception 2024 - 2025

🌟 Welcome to Reception Class! 🌟

We are delighted to welcome you and your child to our Reception class at Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School.

Our outstanding Early Years team delivers an engaging and carefully planned curriculum that nurtures each child’s curiosity and love for learning. We place a strong emphasis on:

• Communication and Language – encouraging children to express themselves confidently.

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development – helping children build self-confidence, manage emotions, form positive relationships, and develop empathy.

• Physical Development – supporting motor skills, coordination, and overall wellbeing so children can move confidently and participate fully in daily activities.

Children explore, play, and learn through a variety of enriching, hands-on experiences designed around their interests and developmental needs.

✏️ Our Curriculum

• Phonics & English: We use Read Write Inc phonics alongside high-quality immersive texts to build strong foundations in reading and writing.We also use Drawing club and Ready, Steady, Write to ensure strong foundations in Literacy. 

• Mathematics: We follow a mastery approach using Power Maths and Mastering Number, ensuring children develop deep mathematical understanding in a fun and accessible way.

• We celebrate familiar and new experiences across the year, creating meaningful learning moments that children remember.

👩‍🏫 Meet the Team

• Mrs Ephgrave – Class Teacher

• Miss Burns – Teaching Assistant

• Miss Stanley – HLTA & PPA Cover

📌 Important Information

• Children will bring home phonics sounds and a reading book each week, linked to their RWI group.
  👉 Please ensure reading packs are in school every day.

• PE Day: Wednesday
  👉 Children should come to school in the correct PE kit.

• Celebration Assembly: Fridays at 2:50pm
  👉 Families are warmly invited to join us each week!

• Weekly Learning Sheets are sent home every Monday, highlighting key learning, phonics sounds, and our story, number, and colour of the week.

• Stay & Play Sessions: Held once every half term – a lovely opportunity for you to come into school and play alongside your child.

🏡 What Can You Do at Home?

• Read every day – Re-reading books helps build fluency and confidence.

• Use the weekly learning sheet to:

  • Listen to our story of the week

  • Spot our colour and number of the week

  • Practise the phonics sounds your child has learned (QR codes included)

• Stay connected via:

  • Class Dojo – for regular updates and messages

  • Facebook – where we share photos and moments from our classroom

For more information, please contact the school office.
You can also read our Ofsted Report, where our Early Years provision is rated as Outstanding. 🌟

We’re looking forward to an exciting and successful year ahead!