Welcome to Reception

Mrs Wright & Miss Shoesmith

Mrs Wright is the teacher in Reception from Monday to Wednesday and Miss Shoesmith is the class teacher on Thursday and Friday. Mrs Griffin is our teaching assistant every day except on a Friday afternoon when Mrs Cruse will work with us. 

Each Wednesday morning we will have Mrs Field, Mrs Wellock and Mrs Ellis for our TENS learning where we will have outdoor learning, art or a focussed intervention. Please make sure children have wellies in school at all times!  Children will be going outside whatever the weather, so please send your child in appropriate clothing. We do have some outdoor overalls and some spare clothes in school as some children find it challenging not to get too muddy! If you know that your child is particularly fond of getting messy, sending a change of clothes in a spare bag would be handy!

We read daily with the children and we use the same book for a full week. This really supports your children with their fluency in reading and builds up their confidence when learning new sounds and new words.

For this reason we ask that you bring their books to school every day in their bookbags so we can read and change them as needed. 

Please remember to look on Seesaw. This closed platform allows us to share your child's learning across the year and also allows you to contact class teachers easily. You can also contact any staff member via the school office email address: mail@addingham.bradford.sch.uk

Routines for Reception

PE- Monday (PE kits can stay in school for the full half term).

TENS- Wednesday morning

Reading books-every day

Water bottle (named) - every day 

Wellies in school for the full term please (named!)

Key Dates

NSPCC Number Day Friday 6th February

Music and Performing Arts Week 9th-13th February

Come Dine With Me Thursday 26th February - come into school at 11:30am and join us for lunch! Details and how to book / pay will be on Arbor.

Sports Day Wednesday 20th May 

Showcase Monday 6th July- come into school at 2pm - 3pm for some activities and to look at everything we have been learning.

Timetable

Here is our timetable.

Our Curriculum 

Here you will find an overview of the year ahead. This shows the coverage of our curriculum across all areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Although you can use this to look at what we are learning each term, you will also receive a newsletter at the end of the half term to explain what we will be learning about in the next. This will enable you to have discussions at home about all of you child's exciting new knowledge and if you have anything to bring in or share on Seesaw to add to our topics then that would be fantastic.