The reception year (Class R) is the final year of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum which covers Birth to Five. In Class R we develop and embed the prime areas of learning that underpin everything else to come. These are Communication and Language, Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Physical Development. With quality adult support and interactions, play is the best way for children to develop these skills and so we give it the time it deserves. The continuous provision allows children to follow their own interests and adults engage with the children and model and teach through playful interactions. We love to be outdoors and take part in forest school on site.
The specific areas of learning are Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design. In Class R children develop their early reading skills through a structured phonics programme (Read Write Inc) and through the sharing of many wonderful stories. They learn to form letters and write simple sentences. In Maths, children investigate the numerical system to 10 in detail and explore shapes and patterns. Understanding the World is the foundations of Science, History, Geography and RE. Children begin to understand and explore their world through learning about farmers and food, space and planet Earth and how different people celebrate.
Class R perform a Christmas nativity every year and go on visits within the village and beyond!
Maths
Class R have been exploring shape arrangements 🔵🟩 #eyfsmaths
Reading
KS1 and Class R have had a fantastic afternoon taking part in the National Storytelling Week activities. They had some amazing ideas for their own stories. #eyfsreading #eyfswriting #y1reading #y1writing #y2reading #y2writing
Class R are really enjoying phonics and we are very good at it! #eyfsreading #eyfswriting
With adults, to our friends or quietly by ourselves…we just love to read in Class R! #eyfsreading
Class R embed their learning through their play. It’s fun pretending to be the teacher! #eyfsreading #eyfswriting
This week Class R have been on a space adventure in a cardboard box rocket! Whatever next! #eyfsreading
Writing
Class R watched the England highlights and wrote some fantastic sentences afterwards! 🦁🏴#eyfswriting #eyfs
Practicing our set 2 sounds and tricky words! #eyfswriting
Class R really enjoyed a trip to the park for their pebble pot treat!! 🥳 #eyfs
Class R watched the England highlights and wrote some fantastic sentences afterwards! 🦁🏴#eyfswriting #eyfs
Class R enjoyed their first school trip yesterday! 🕶☀️🌳🐧#eyfs #ourschool
Class R keeping cool in the sunshine ☀️#eyfs #ourschool
In class R we know how quickly germs can spread, last week a nurse came to visit to show us how important it is to wash our hands #eyfs 🦠🫧🧴
