WELCOME TO RECEPTION AT NELSON SCHOOL
Spring Term 

Reception staff team

Starfish Class teacher – Miss Moss

Reception Teaching assistants

Monday - Tuesday – Mrs Baran

Wednesday – Friday - Mrs Baker

Monday - Friday Mornings – Miss Smith

Lunch time support staff - Toey

The Reception team are looking forward to a fun and exciting spring term. We hope to continue working in partnership with you to ensure your child’s first year at school continues to be a happy and successful one.

This letter is designed to give you some helpful information about the coming term, specific to Reception. Please refer to the class notice board for more information, reminders and requests and please do not hesitate to see your child’s class team if you have any specific queries.

CURRICULUM

·      This first half term our overall topic is “Where can stories take us?”. We will be exploring traditional and well-known tales which the children may already be familiar with, such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man. In the second half term our topic will be “What is living in our environment?” where, amongst other things, we will be finding out about “new life.”

·      We encourage children to contribute to our topics in school and children may be invited to bring in topic-related items of interest.

·      As well as this, in keeping with Reception good practice and ethos, we also continue to respond to children’s interests and ideas and incorporate them, where possible, into our curriculum and learning.

·      This year, we are happy to say we will be welcoming to Reception the ever popular “ready –to- hatch” eggs. We will be taking delivery of an incubator, with 10 eggs, which will all hopefully hatch into fluffy chicks. During the two weeks, the children will be able to witness the wonder of new life at first hand!

·      We will also be receiving a visit from Mill Farm cottage, and the children will have an opportunity to interact with a variety of animals. 

You can find out more information about the spring term learning by looking at the overviews and programmes of study on the website.

Learning Journeys

Your child will keep their own Learning Journey in class. We invite you to contribute to this with “WOW” moments. More information about this will be sent home soon.

Snacks

In keeping with the wider healthy eating policy of the school, please only send a fruit or vegetable snack. We feel that this not only helps promote a positive attitude to healthy eating but also encourages good eating habits. Please remember that if you are providing this in a container, please clearly name label it. We are a NUT FREE school and have children allergic, so please DO NOT bring in anything containing nuts. 

Lunches

If your child is having a hot school lunch, please remember to select the meal in advance.

Bookbags

We send letters and important information regarding your child’s learning home in their book bags. Please ensure they are bought to school daily and check them on a regular basis.

End of day pick up.

If your child is being collected at the end of the day by someone different, please inform the class teacher. You may also email or phone the school to inform us if there are any changes to pick up. We can only send children home with confirmed adults.

Toys from home.

We ask that children do not bring in toys from home, as we cannot guarantee they will not get lost or damaged. 

We hope you have found this information helpful. We aim to keep parents as involved and informed as possible. Please do not hesitate to email the school if you have any questions.

                Best wishes and thank you for your support

                           The Reception Team