WELCOME TO RECEPTION

To contact us please email - receptionteachers@asquithprimary.org

in September 2023!

We are delighted that you have been offered a Reception place for your child for September 2023.

Please email admin@asquithprimary.org or phone the school office on 0113 3075550 to accept your child's place.

In the Summer term we will be having a welcome meeting for new children and parents. We will contact parents to let you know the date and time of the welcome meeting.

Information about Reception:

In Reception, we love learning through play, making friends and having lots of fun.

Staff

There are two Reception classes at Asquith, Red Butterfly Class and Green Butterfly class.

Mrs Ellis is the teacher in Red Butterfly Class.

Miss Hornegould and Miss Sheard are part time teaching assistants in Red Butterfly Class. Miss Hornegould works at the beginning of the week and Miss Sheard works at the end of the week.

Mrs Trolley is the teacher in Green Butterfly Class.

Miss Dolby is the teaching assistant in Green Butterfly Class.

PE

On a Monday we have a PE lesson with Mr Henshaw, the sports coach. The children come to school wearing their PE kit:

Royal blue shorts (in the warmer weather)

Black tracksuit bottoms or leggings and Black Hoodie

White T-shirt, with or without the school logo

Phonics and learning to read

At Asquith we follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Phonics programme.  

Please click the link below to find information videos about how we teach phonics, posters with the sounds we learn and how to pronounce them correctly and information about how to support your child with reading at home.

Topics

These are the topics we learn about and the books we love reading in Reception.

At the start of each half term we share a newsletter and a parent friendly plan which gives more information about what we are learning in Reception.

Our topic is about starting school. We learn to talk about our feelings and the 4 Zones of Regulation. We also learn about each other by looking at our All About Me sheets and talking about our families and what we enjoy doing.

Once we are settled in our new classroom we begin our topic, The Three Little Pigs. We have fun making houses for the three little pigs. We learn songs about the three little pigs and have fun singing these songs to our parents. We also learn about what houses were like in the past.

To finish our topic we read a different version of the traditional tale, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig!

Our topic is how to be healthy. We learn about making healthy choices in what we eat and drink. When reading the story Oliver's Vegetables we learn about different vegetables and design our own vegetable patch.

After reading the books Oliver's Fruit Salad and Oliver's Milkshake we have fun following instructions to make a delicious fruit smoothie. 

To end the half term we learn about Easter and look for signs of Spring!

At the start of this half term we learn about Diwali, the Festival of Light.

On Bonfire Night we find out about people who help keep us safe. We enjoy using the Topsy and Tim meet the... books to learn about the different people who help us in our local community.

We also enjoy reading the story, The Little Red Hen and have fun following instructions to make our own bread. We all help to make the bread, unlike the animals in the story!

In December we join our Nursery friends and sing Christmas songs and Christmas number rhymes to our parents.

We start this term celebrating St George's Day and learning about the patron Saint of England.

After that our topic is farm animals and learning about a contrasting locality to where we live in Morley. We enjoy a visit from farmer Richard and his farm animals. We learn the names of baby animals and the produce we get from farm animals.

We enjoy retelling the story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and have fun working in our teams to make a bridge for the goats. 

Our topic is Owls. We have an exciting online visit with different types of owls from SMJ Falconry and learn that not all owls are nocturnal! We learn about the life cycle of an owl and have fun dissecting an owl pellet. We read fiction and non-fiction books about owls.

In the Spring term we go to the Alhambra Theatre with the rest of school to see the Pantomime. We have the best time on our first ever school trip!

We also learn about Chinese New Year and how people celebrate. 

In the last half term, we have fun reading different Supertato stories.

We engage in Science investigations about freezing and explore different materials. We work in our teams to make a trap for the Evil Pea and make Wanted posters to put around school. 

Also in this half term we visit the Year 1 classrooms and meet our new teacher. We enjoy spending time in our new classrooms so that we are confident to start Year 1 in September.

Finally, we plan an end of year party to celebrate our achievements in our first year of school!