Reception

Welcome to Reception

Our Reception Team

Teachers: Mrs Vallance, Miss Day and Mrs Hadzik

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Fairbairn, Miss Scott and Mrs Boon

CURRICULUM

Please see the document below for this year group’s ‘Curriculum Overview’. This gives parents/carers a brief outline of the content covered in each subject throughout the year. For a more detailed overview of the objectives taught in each subject, please access the progression documents on the relevant subject page. This area can be accessed by clicking here.

Our PE sessions

Please send your child to school wearing the correct PE kit on their allocated day. Uniform days can be found here https://monkscoppenhall.cheshire.sch.uk/virtual-office/uniform/

PE Kit

Your child will need to come to school in their PE kit on a Thursday. When the colder weather arrives please ensure that your child has suitable outdoor PE clothing e.g. jogging bottoms and a warm long sleeved top.

Please can we remind you that for all PE sessions long hair must always be tied back and all earrings MUST be removed or covered over with a plaster.

As we are a healthy school, we encourage all children to bring a named bottle into school filled with only with water.

What does your child need to bring to school?

  • A named water bottle filled only with water (as we are a healthy school).
  • A named lunchbox (if required).
  • Book bag, reading diary and reading books.
  • Named waterproof coat, and gloves/hat for colder weather.
  • A named sunhat (weather dependent) and sun cream if required (please try to ensure that this is applied before school).
  • It would be beneficial for your child to have a pair of named wellies in school all year round.

Our Curriculum

The Reception curriculum at Monks Coppenhall Academy has been developed to provide exciting, engaging opportunities and a safe, nurturing, enabling environment where discovery, creativity and innovation flourish. The needs of our children and the local community have been considered in the development of the curriculum. It is based on the four main principles from the Reception Statutory Framework 2021: a unique child, positive relationships, enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, learning and development.

Every week children in Reception take part in RWI Phonics sessions, White Rose Maths sessions, Literacy sessions, PE with subject specialists, Co-Jo missions, RSHE sessions. Throughout each week additional subjects and topic knowledge are taught through the enhanced environment and small group sessions.

Here are a selection of videos to support you and your child with the Read, Write Inc phonics scheme that we follow.

An overview of the scheme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dSsXkD1wM&safe=true

Correct pronunciation of sounds: How to say the sounds – YouTube

COJO

COJO aims to promote the four British Values and 7 Character Traits through fun and engaging missions linked to 7 different nursery rhymes. Each nursery rhyme has a character and missions to complete which link to the Characteristics of Effective Learning and the Prime and Specific areas of the Reception Curriculum.

Our Co-Jo Characters

Tanisha Teamwork – To work as part of a team.

Charlie Communication – To follow instructions and to listen to others.

Elliot Excellence – To know that we are all good at different things and that it is fine to make mistakes.

Parveen Positivity – To know that we can learn from our mistakes and to think of solutions to problems.

Sophie Self-Awareness – To recognise our own feelings and to have strategies to self-regulate our own behaviour.

Eddie Empathy – To show sensitivity to others needs and to know how our actions may affect others.

Romeo Resilience – To know when to ask for help and when to persevere.

RE

In Reception, we explore concepts from Christianity.  We think about how Christians might describe God and what might happen in a Church.  We find out why the Bible is an important book for Christians and learn about some of the important Bible stories such as the Christmas story and the Easter story.

How you can support your child’s learning and development at home

It is important that you read books with your child every night as repetition is vital for early reading skills to develop and please record this in your child’s Communication Diary. We will be keeping you up to date with your child’s reading progress regularly through the Communication Diary. In class we have a Reading Rainbow and every time your child reads 15 times they will move up the different coloured stars and receive a sticker in their diary. Your child’s book will be changed on a Monday and Thursday. 

Useful websites for the curriculum 

Numberblocks

Numberblocks – CBeebies – BBC – fun counting and number recognition videos/games

White Rose

Home Learning | White Rose Maths – Home learning activities to support consolidation

BBC Tiny Happy People
Activities for 4-5 year olds – BBC Tiny Happy People – A collection of activities to do with your child

ICT Games

https://www.ictgames.com/ – A range of online activities linked to different subjects

National Geographic Kids
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ – Activities and quizzes for younger kids.

Cbeebies Radio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio – Listening activities for the younger ones.

Nature Detectives
https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Activities to try in the garden!

Imagination Tree

School Age Archives – The Imagination Tree – Age appropriate activities to try at home