Our Wonderful Nativity Cast
Children In Need Day
Celebrating Diwali
Hello Yellow Day
Fun in Reception Class
Exciting Explorers at Forest School
This is updated by Mrs Thorogood.
Hello and welcome to Reception class at Taxal and Fernilee CE Primary School. Starting school is a big step in the life of your child. Our Reception class is a happy, nurturing and exciting place to learn and grow. Your child will have lots of support to help them to settle into school quickly and happily and to help become familiar with the new routines.
In Reception, learning is creative and fun. The children are at the heart of everything we do. We aspire to have happy, inquisitive, confident and independent learners. Activities are planned to develop the children’s learning by building on their interests, abilities, ideas and experiences. In developing a growth mindset, we encourage the children to have the confidence to ‘have a go’ by giving them time to play and explore both indoors and outdoors. We support the children to persevere and therefore build resilience.
In Reception, we begin to build the foundation of our school ‘SCRIPT’ values of: Strength, Compassion, Respect, Integrity, Peace and Tenacity. We have a saying, “Team work makes the dream work” and children work together, taking turns and respecting each other. We celebrate and praise each child’s achievements so they can be proud of themselves and others. It is a privilege to share these experiences and to see each child thrive, develop and achieve both individually and as a class.
We look forward to a strong partnership between home and school throughout the year. If you have anything you would like to discuss, please feel free to come and see us. Our door is always open.
Here's what we've been up to this half term:
We're so proud of our Reception class children each one is making super progress as a result of their enthusiasm and hard work! It's great to see them all coming into school with big smiles and so much confidence.
We've been working hard in phonics and already the children know so many letter sounds and are beginning to blend and read words. We love listening to lots of stories and our book focus this half term is 'Star in a Jar' by Sarah Hays. We've used this to spark lots of ideas for writing and created stars from all sorts of media. I particularly liked the sparkly play dough creations.
In maths we are becoming experts at subitising and all know the rhyme "Don't count see the amount!". We have been looking at composition of numbers using Numicon in play dough, making shapes with cubes, counting objects and much more!
Lots of celebrations too including Diwali, bonfire night, Children in Need and of course all our exciting preparations for Christmas and our upcoming production of the Nativity. We certainly have lots of super singers and dancers. You certainly are shining stars Reception!
Termly Planners
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Reception Letter Autumn 2025
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Upcoming Trips and Production
Nativity Production - Tuesday 9th December at 6.30pm
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