Reception Class
Morning Drop-off
Thank you for your support and patience in dropping your children off at school. We understand that the children entering the cloakroom independently may be quite different to what they were used to at nursery, however all children are ready to be independent in their morning routine of hanging up their things, changing in to their pumps, putting their water bottle away and entering the classroom.
3.15pm Pick-up
At 3.15pm, the children have been leaving the classroom via the ‘Garden’ door in to the Reception play area, one at a time. They are asked to sit patiently until we call their name when we can see their adult. We are getting quicker as we go! If someone new to us is picking up your child, or there is a change to the usual routine, please let us know at morning drop-off, via the office or by email.
At home-time and after school, please do not allow your children to play on the climbing frame or other equipment in the ‘Garden’ area or on the school field. This is for health and safety and insurance reasons. Thank you.
Reading Mornings
As of January 2024, Reading Mornings will be held on a Tuesday. Reading morning is an opportunity to come in to the classroom with your child and share a book together. Reading Morning will start 8.50am and finish at 9.10am.
Outdoor Learning
In Reception we love to be outside in our garden, exploring on the field or visiting our Conservation Area. We try to go outside in all weathers (and particularly enjoy the rain!) so, if you haven’t already, please provide your child with an all-in-one waterproof suit or a waterproof coat and trousers, along with wellies to avoid lovely new uniforms from becoming not-so-lovely. These would be best left in school if possible please. Please provide a named coat hanger on which we can hang the wet waterproofs! Thank you. For indoors, we ask that each child keeps their pair of pumps in school, we will send these home at the end of a term for you to check their fit. Please name everything that comes in to school.
PE
Reception’s PE days will be on a Tuesday & Wednesday. Please can all children come to school in their PE kit on their designated PE days.
Milk and Water Bottles
The children have a snack (fruit or vegetable) each day and are always encouraged to try all new foods. They will also receive cow’s milk each day until they turn 5. This will begin at the start of the children’s first full week of school, Monday 18th September. If you would prefer your child not to have milk, please let the school know. Once children are 5, their milk will need to be paid for as outlined in previous information received. Please be aware that there is a delay between your payment happening and your child being added to our school milk order. Children have access to their water bottles throughout the day and are encouraged to drink regularly. Please ensure children have their names on their water bottle and bring fresh water to school each day. The children are able to re-fill their bottle throughout the school day as needed.
Menus
After receiving a menu in your child’s book bag, please select a food choice for each day with your child and return to school the following Monday in order for us to process their lunches. Please ensure your child’s menu is named before returning them to school.
Book Bags
It is helpful if children can bring a book bag to school each day so they can bring home drawings and books etc. We would also appreciate a spare set of underwear and socks being kept in your child’s bag. This could be in a spare bag, left on your child’s peg, or inside their book bag.
Staff
Monday – Miss Griffin & Miss Smith
Tuesday- Miss Griffin & Miss Smith
Wednesday- Miss Griffin, Mrs Milne & Miss Smith
Thursday- Mrs Milne & Miss Smith
Friday- Mrs Milne & Miss Smith
Communication
As of Wednesday 13th September, you should have received your invitation to log on to ‘Tapestry’. This will be where you can see your child’s individual learning and progress recorded. Further information will be on our class page on the school website as well as weekly blog updates about our whole class learning and experiences.
Our email addresses are given below. Please be aware that we may not be able to check these when we are teaching the children but we will aim to get back to you as soon as we can.
anna.griffin@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
emme.milne@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
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Reception Class Blog
17th April
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Last week in school before Easter
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Reception Class have had a great last week in school. After a very soggy start to the week during Monday's Forest School, the weather improved and we have enjoyed lots of outdoor learning. The children walked with their Year 6 buddy to church on Tuesday morning. We have loved the parachute. We have been creating and recognising lots of patterns in maths. Someone even created the Smeds and the Smoos red and blue stone wall under the slide. We have finished our Dance unit with performances to each other including the key ballet skills such as gallops, skips and pliés.
Finding 2D shapes within 3D shapes
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The children enjoyed printing with or drawing around a 3D shape and their friends guessed which 3D shape had been used to create the 2D shape.
Forest School
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Reception have loved their first Forest School this week. Thank you for all your help in getting them suited and booted and your unwavering support, even in the pouring rain.
Stockeld Park School Trip - We had great trip to Stockeld Park. We started off with story telling workshop through the enchanted forest, then we had a superhero workshop and finally a play in the Playhive. We had the whole place to ourselves.
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Reception Class Blog 8th February 2024
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We have been doing lots of learning about Lunar New Year. This year, the Lunar New Year begins with the New Moon on 10th February Festivities will continue until the Full Moon on 24th February. We will be preparing and cooking a dish to celebrate on the first Monday back after half term.
The class are thoroughly enjoying the training from the YMCA on a Wednesday.
We will be starting to learn about telling the time after the half term holiday. Throughout the holiday, you might want to start trying to tell the time with your child (both analogue and digital).
Have a lovely week during half term.
Team Reception
Reception Class Blog 24th January 2024
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We've had a few poorly children this week. Sending health and vitality!
Reception have been loving their superhero learning and we have been rewriting the lyrics to What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor to What Shall We Do With Evil Pea? Evil Pea in the villain from Supertato. We have started to put actions with the words. Please feel free to practise at home. Here are the lyrics...
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
Early in the morning!
Put him in the freezer until he freezes
Put him in the freezer until he freezes
Put him in the freezer until he freezes
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
Early in the morning!
Gobble him up until he’s in your tummy
Gobble him up until he’s in your tummy
Gobble him up until he’s in your tummy
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
Early in the morning!
Flush him down the toilet into the drain
Flush him down the toilet into the drain
Flush him down the toilet into the drain
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
What shall we do with Evil Pea?
Early in the morning!
Mush him up and throw him in the bin
Mush him up and throw him in the bin
Mush him up and throw him in the bin
Early in the morning!
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!
We will share it with you as a performance soon.
We have been working hard on our writing this week and have all composed a sentence that a superhero would say.
I didn't get any pictures unfortunately but lots of children were very creative and helpful in shifting sand and compost in our garden. We had a good conveyor belt to get the heavy bags into place. Bring on Spring! We will get planting soon.
Reception Class Blog 17th January 2024
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Conservation Area
We are going to be taking part in the RSPB bird watch so this morning we got wrapped up to explore our conservation area and look for natural and human placed features which help birds to thrive. It was delightful to get out on such a crisp, bright morning. We spotted nests, log piles, insect homes, trees and bird houses.
We also spotted some signs of early spring. The daffodils are coming up and we’re going to check on the again soon.
Dance
We have been enjoying expressing ourselves through dance together. We practised skipping in time to the music and explored Handa's Surprise and Handa's Hen though dance.
Phonics - we started unit 6 this week
We have been focussing on letter formation in phonics this week.
See the j, w and z on the photographs.
We wrote the sentence ‘Get the dog to the vet.’ with a focus on leaving finger spaces between words.
Superhero Plate
We have been designing plates fit for superheroes filled with healthy foods. We used a program on Mini Mash to create them and then used our handwriting to label them.
Maths
We have been concentrating on one more and one less and started capacity.
Ice
As always, we have made use of the natural environment and have left things to freeze overnight and play with them the next day.
Thanks for coming to the Characteristics of Effective Learning meeting on Wednesday morning. Apologies again for my lateness, I had a two hour journey from Harrogate.
Reception Class Blog
Week Commencing 8th January 2024
Welcome back
This term, our topic is called Calling All Superheroes.
The children seem naturally very inquisitive and fascinated by all things superheroes. This maybe due to Spidey on CBeebies.
The learning will start with all things superheroes but will continue onto people and animals who are real life superheroes. Please see the Long Term Plan on the class page for more information.
PE – YMCA and Dance
Our PE days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
On Wednesdays, we will be having our expert teacher from the YMCA in Lawnswood teaching us ball skills.
As a slight change to the Long Term Plan, we will be doing Dance as our other PE session. I will hopefully share some videos of our choreography with you via Tapestry. Our first session will be based on Handa’s Surprise and the delicious fruit she encounters as part of our healthy eating learning.
Reading Books
Please write in the reading record each week if you can.
School Trip
Very excitingly, our first school trip is also coming up as part of this topic. We are off to Stockeld Park on Tuesday 5th March.
I have these adults down to help with this school trip. If any of you can no longer help, please let me know.
- Henry Musto’s mum
- Daniel’s mum
- Amelie’s mum
- Esme’s mum
- Kamran’s mum
- Jake’s mum
Allergies
Just as a reminder, we have allergies in the classroom so please do not send chocolate in for birthdays (sweets are fine – preferably gelatine free).
We welcome Emma Milne to the class. She's enjoying getting to know all of the children.
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Week beginning 18.12.23
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What a wonderful final week of 2023 we have had at school. The children have enjoyed their Christmas party, Christmas Service, final reading morning of the year and today have enjoyed Toy Day (alongside their Year 6 buddies) as well as a whole school Christmas sing-a-long!
During our Christmas Service, led by our school Worship Committee alongside Reverend Alison, nine of our Reception children were chosen to add special items to the nativity scene. This was lovely to see!
The children have been working hard on creating Christmas cards for their families. We hope you like them. They have worked especially hard on their writing, with everyone showing good progress since their start at school! Our classroom has turned in to a glitter ball!
Rosie and Jim were collected today by their Mummy and Daddy. Mr Routledge came in to collect them. He passed us a letter that their Mummy and Daddy had sent. It read, ‘Dear Reception, thank you so much for looking after Rosie and Jim. You have all done an excellent job of keeping them happy, healthy and safe and we are very grateful! We are now here to take them home for Christmas with our family. We hope you all have a very special Christmas with your families and share many moments of wonder and joy. Love, Rosie and Jim’s Mummy and Daddy. x ’ Mr Routledge them took them to Mrs Dean and Mrs Ramsden in the office, who let them out of the front door to their parents. Thank you to our Reception families for your support in this throughout this half term!
We would like to say another big thank you to you all for your support this year. Your children are a pleasure to teach and Miss Griffin and Mrs Milne are looking forward to sharing a new topic with them in the New Year. Mrs Quinn will be starting her maternity leave after Christmas and will miss everyone!
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas time full of joy and a very happy and healthy 2024.
Miss Griffin, Mrs Quinn, Mrs Milne and Miss Smith
Week beginning 11.12.23
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We have been enjoying many Christmas activities this week, including our Christmas Jumper Day and our very special Christmas Lunch! Our nativity performances were a huge success, we hope you enjoyed them. Thank you for the lovely comments we have received. We are all so proud of all of the children, they were fantastic. Each class involved received the Gold Award in Celebration Assembly this week for their efforts. Well done, children! Thank you for all of your support in pulling it together!
Our preparations for Family Morning are almost complete. We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday morning. Our final Reading Morning is next Thursday. Please note the change of days following the Christmas break. Reading mornings will move from a Thursday morning to a Tuesday at the same time, 8.50-9.10am. We hope to see as many of you there. Thank you for the huge support in this, this term.
Next Wednesday afternoon we have our Christmas party! On this day, the children are able to come to school in party clothes. They are also able to bring in a small snack. Please see last week’s blog for more information. Thank you.
As a staff team, we would like to say a huge thank you for our lovely cards and gifts. You have been so generous with your words and gifts for each of us and they are very much appreciated. We have loved teaching your wonderful children this term. Thank you again.
We hope you have a lovely final weekend before the Christmas break.
Miss Griffin, Mrs Quinn and Miss Smith