Welcome to Our Reception Page
On this page, you will find staffing information and all of our lovely news, along with photographs of what we have been getting up to.
Staff in Reception
Mr Beech (Phase Leader and Bluebirds Class teacher on Monday and Tuesday)
Miss Beestin (Robins class teacher)
Mrs Holland (Bluebirds class teacher Wednesday – Friday)
Mrs Papworth (Teaching assistant in Bluebirds – Not in on Fridays)
Mrs Marriott (Teaching assistant in Robins – Not in on Thursdays)
Mrs Holgate (Phase Teaching assistant Thursday and Friday)
EYFS Phase Governor: David Pass
Physical Education (PE)
Children in EYFS are taught their physical development through both our outdoor and indoor provision. Please can your child come to school in their PE kits, in a pair of trainers they can put on by themselves.
Bluebirds PE – Monday
Robins PE – Friday
Book Bags
The children should bring their book bags into school every Monday and Thursday. It will be returned to you on a Monday and Friday. This year we would like to encourage the children to empty their own bookbags, so if you have written a message for staff, please can you make sure your child is aware so they can show it to us.
Reading Books
Your child will bring home s free choice book on a Monday. Please read this with your child and return it on a Thursday. Each Friday your child will bring home two reading books. One of these will be a free choice book and one book will be from our school reading scheme. The free choice books are selected by the children. These are to support our work on ‘Reading for Enjoyment.’ It is not expected that your child will read these books totally independently but it may be a book that you share together. Please make a comment and sign in your child’s home/school diary to indicate that they have read their book. You may also use the front of your child’s diary to record any messages for us to read. We may also use them to record messages for you, so please check these regularly.
Take a look at our video: Reception, A Day in the life!
Learning at home
It is expected that all Reception children read with their parent/carer at least twice a week. In order to gain a new book, the children must have a signature and comment in their reading diary from an adult to say that they have read their previous book. They will also have a variety of homework tasks (that can be chosen from a list by you – see below).
Please feel free to make Comments on your child’s homework to let us know how your child managed with the task.
If you have any queries, please contact a member of the
Reception team.
Homework
Each half term, after the October half term, the children will receive homework, which will be available on the website. It is
expected that your child will complete the activities set. We ask you to mark and talk about your child’s homework, so any misconceptions can be picked up straight away. If you can return your child’s homework on a Monday in their bookbag we can then share their achievements.
Hometime
The school day finishes at 3.15pm. Please can we ask anyone who is picking up to stand to the left of Robins door. This will ensure the safety of us handing the children to you, as the pathway can become very congested at the end of the day due to it leading out to one of the main gates.
Please ensure if you have made any new arrangements for picks e.g. your child is going out for a tea, or a last minute alteration to your normal pick up
routine that you inform the class teacher or school office either in writing or by telling the teacher that morning.
This week’s homework
Maths Homework
This week in maths we have looked at 2d and 3 d shape. Over the weekend see if you can find any objects around the house that are 3d. See if your child can name them and write a label for each object. We have also sent home an activity sheet for you to create …
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Maths Homework
This week in maths we have looked at 2d and 3 d shape. Over the weekend see if you can find any objects around the house that are 3d. See if your child can name them and write a label for each object. We have also sent home an activity sheet for you to create …
This half term’s Knowledge Organisers.
Reception Knowledge Organisers Spring 2
Please use the links below to see what we are learning this half term. Apologies for the slight delay – we were all having too much fun at Skipton Castle! Topic Knowledge Organiser – Feed Me Please – Spring 2 English Knowledge Organiser Reception Spring 2 Maths Knowledge Organiser – Spring 2
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Reception Knowledge Organisers Spring 2
Please use the links below to see what we are learning this half term. Apologies for the slight delay – we were all having too much fun at Skipton Castle! Topic Knowledge Organiser – Feed Me Please – Spring 2 English Knowledge Organiser Reception Spring 2 Maths Knowledge Organiser – Spring 2
Latest class news – Click the title for more.
School Council – World Poetry Day Competition
Today is World Poetry Day! To help celebrate, School Council have hosted a poetry writing competition. There were lots of amazing entries and they found it incredibly hard to judge! In assembly this morning, 2 winners were announced… Ruby from Herons and Luca from Woodpeckers. A huge well done to everybody that entered! Below are …
School Council – Chill Out Tuesday
After a successful term of running ‘Chill Out Tuesday’ for KS2 children, School Council have now swapped their club to allow Reception and KS1 children to attend. So far, it’s been very popular! The children have loved mixing with each other through playing board games, building models, reading, drawing, crafting and dancing (thanks to DJ …
British Science Week
This week is British Science Week. We read a story called The Most Important Animal of All. When reading, we talked about how different animals bring different things to our environment and the world around us. We thought that tigers were the most important. We found out lots of facts. Did you know a tiger …
Reception Muddy Puddle Day!
We have had a super day learning all about birds. We took to the school fields and outdoor classroom to make our own binoculars and then quietly waited to see which birds flew by. It was really nice to sit and hear the birds singing. We learnt about where a bird would build it’s nest …
Robins PE
In PE this morning we use showed off our ball skills. After a quick warm up we learnt how to throw, catch and kick the balls with great control.
Bluebird’s Drop In
At Bluebird’s drop in children were taking part in activities linked to Handa’s Surprise e.g. making fruit skewers, turning old CDs into a piece of fruit (!) and clipping the correct number of pegs onto pictures of fruit. We then had a quick dough disco and finished with the French song ‘Deux Petits Oiseaux’. They …
World Book Day – LKS2 and Reception Buddy Up!
As part of World Book Day today, 3/4 and Reception have buddied up to read, share stories and draw/colour their favourite book characters.
Big Battery Hunt Update…
Thank you to those who have been bringing in their dead and used batteries across the past few weeks. So far, we have recycled a total of 2553! A big thank you also to our school council team who have been out recycling the batteries at various recycling points after scores have been totalled in …
Skipton Castle
We have had a lovely day. The children were very excited as we boarded the coach. We enjoyed our own VIP tour around Lord and Lady Clifford’s castle. We learnt so much! We even pretended to be knights and got to defend the castle with our pretend bow and arrows. After lunch we took to …
EYFS have a visit from the Leeds Library Bus!
Today saw the first of three visits from the Leeds Library Bus. Each of the children in Robins and Bluebirds spent time on the bus this afternoon, listening to stories being told by the onboard librarian, singing songs and exploring the wonderful array of books. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and are already looking forward …
Big Battery Hunt Competition – Recycle your used batteries with us!
The school council have signed us up to join in with Duracell’s big battery hunt. Duracell are encouraging pupils up and down the country to recycle their batteries instead of putting them in landfill to help make our planet greener and cleaner. They’ve set schools a challenge to try and collect and recycle as many …
Reception Entry – Feed Me Please!
This term our new topic is called Feed Me Please! Throughout the topic we will be finding out where our food comes from, looking at how we can grow our own food, discussing changes around Spring and changes in the weather. Today we started by making our own pancakes. We added different healthy fruits, along …
School Council Celebrate Pancake Day!
Happy pancake day! As part of our school council meeting today, we were given a very special treat as a thank you for all of our hard work so far this year. They were delicious!!
Reception Exit Point – ‘Let’s Pretend’
As another term comes to an end we have finished our topic about ‘Let’s Pretend by learning a Medieval Dance. We learnt to count and move to the rhythm of the music and even pretended to be kings and queens. We can’t wait to visit Skipton Castle to preform our dance again in a real …
EYFS Puppet Making Workshop
Lots of parents and other family members attended our puppet making workshop this morning. Our guests were given a brief overview of the EYFS Expressive Arts and Design curriculum and then challenged to release their own inner creativity and make something from a variety of small wooden pieces, matchsticks or lolly sticks! Next, Bluebirds and …
School Council – Food Bank Collection
Ed and the School Council would like to say a HUGE thank you to Team Tranmere for all of the wonderful donations that have been given for the food bank. Everyone has been so generous and we know that this donation will make a big difference to those in need.
Children’s Mental Health Week – Woodpeckers, Red Kites, Bluebirds and Robins make buddies!
This week is children’s mental health week, and the theme this year is all about making connections. This afternoon, Woodpeckers, Red Kites, Robins and Bluebirds decided to get together and do just that! They had lots of fun playing and exploring together. They even had a go at creating portraits using the natural materials around …
Music in Bluebirds
Bluebirds played along to Rock a Bye Baby on the chime bars. They all played D beautifully!
Safer Internet Day
Today we have celebrated Safer Internet Day. This year’s theme is Want to Talk About it? We talked about different apps we use and how this leaves a footprint.
Reception – Muddy Puddle Day
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf… Reception are certainly not! As part of our Muddy Puddle Day we read the story of The Three Little Pigs. It was great fun playing circle games and singing on the banks. We re-told the story and talked about the different types of materials each house was made …
National Storytelling Week Competition
This week is National Storytelling Week. To help celebrate this, the School Council have hosted a storytelling competition. Those who wanted to enter needed to write a story (true or made up) and hand it in to their class councillor. On Friday, the councillors got together to choose a selection of their favourite stories. These …
Reception Muddy Puddle Day!
Muddy Puddle Day Muddy Puddle Days are our outdoor learning days and are part of a whole school initiative. Please send your child in non-uniform, but in clothes that you DO NOT MIND GETTING DIRTY OR WET. It may also be cold, so make sure that your child has plenty of layers, including gloves and …
Party, party, party!
We have had a wonderful day. Lots of festive cheer. The children enjoyed the Christmas Party, playing games, dancing and of course eating!
DT – The Little Inventors Christmas Challenge
Over the past couple of weeks, all children, from EYFS to Year 6, have been working hard on their Little Inventors Christmas Competition task. Children were given the following brief and had to come up with their own original, weird and wonderful ideas! ‘Tis the season to hang the stockings, roll up the snowmen, and …
EYFS Nativity Programme
We are all so excited to show you our nativity tomorrow. Here is our programme in case you would like to print a copy to keep and some pictures of a few of our costumes when we tried them on! Baaarmy Bethlehem Programme
Anti-Bullying Week: Odd Sock Day
Today marks the start of Anti-Bullying week for 2022. To show our support, we have all come to school dressed in odd/crazy socks! In classes, we have discussed that this represents how is it cool for us all to be different, and how we should never be unkind towards others because of their differences. Throughout …
Armistice Day.
This week we have talked about remembrance day. We found out that it marks the very day that World War One ended in 1918. We also talked about the Purple poppy. We discovered the purple poppy is often worn to remember animals that have been victims of war. Animals like horses, dogs and pigeons were often …
Reception Entry Point – Celebrations
We made a wonderful start to our ‘Celebrations’ topic this week. We learnt about Divali and made diya lamps, rangoli patterns and Divali biscuits. We even made firework fruit kebabs! We learnt a Divali dance and ended the fun with a (digital) firework display!
School Council – Suggestion Boxes
This week school council have been decorating their suggestion boxes! These will be placed in their classes after half-term, ready to be filled with pupil suggestions. Thanks to our year 6 helpers who also helped us decorate these at lunch.
Reception Exit Point – Making faces.
What a wonderful term we have had. We are so proud of all the children. They have settled into their new routines and become part of Team Tranmere! We have enjoyed our topic learning about ourselves, different families, our senses and painting pictures of our faces. To complete our topic we made some fantastic face …
Mrs Armitage on Wheels.
This week in English we read the story of Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake. We found out how she turned one ordinary bike into an eye-catching contraption as she went for a bike ride. We re-told the story by completing story maps and using props to act out the story in order. We …
School Council 2022/23
Today our newly appointed school councillors received their badges in assembly! They were all very excited and proud to show themselves off to the whole school. They also took part in their first school council meeting at lunch time, and have been tasked with their first job of finding a box suitable to turn into …
Reading Books
Tonight your child will bring home a reading book. These books have pictures and come with a guide for you to support your child as you look at them together. Please encourage your child to talk about the front cover enabling them to think about what the book might be called. As you move through …
Having Fun With Instruments in EYFS
Bluebirds and Robins had fun tapping and scraping and shaking instruments and trying to keep the beat. They were SO good at stopping and being quiet when they needed to as well. See if they can sing you the ‘Shake and Stop’ song!
All smiles!
This week in our topic work we have learnt all about how to look after our teeth. We used some of the teddies to demonstrate how to move the tooth brush up and down, whilst placing small amounts of toothpaste on our brushes. We have even made our own dentist in the classroom. We would …
Brand New Robins and Bluebirds!
Today, the first half of our brand new Robins and Bluebirds classes joined us in school. We are all so impressed with how they settled so quickly. They were investigating the provision in the classrooms, beginning to learn their new routines and are starting to make new friends too! The children even enjoyed their first …
Reception Muddy Puddle Day
Today we have taken part in different activities and enjoyed the outdoors. We have created pictures using natural materials. We also learnt the Green Cross Code. Then we drew a road with a zebra crossing and took it in turns to cross safely. We took part in different problem solving tasks making our own ramps. …
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What a super day we have had! We were all very excited as we got onto the coach. When we got to the park we became little explores spotting giraffes, leopards, tigers, lions, and even a polar bear or two. Well done Robins and Bluebirds your first school trip. What an adventure. We are so …
EYFS Trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Didn’t we have a wonderful time the day we went to Yorkshire Wildlife Park! It was amazing seeing all the animals and the children were a credit to school and their families. Here’s a taster ~ more pictures to come soon.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
This summer, Queen Elizabeth II has her platinum jubilee – the longest reign of any British monarch! In the 70 years that she has been queen, the world has changed in many ways. Each year group at Tranmere Park have researched a decade and created a collage. These collages, collected as one, tell a story …
Tigers Came to Tea in Reception! (Entry Point)
As part of our entry point for our new topic of ‘Amazing Animals’ we read Judith Kerr’s ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea.’ We then decided to write invitations, make masks, have our faces painted and even have a wonderful picnic lunch in the sunshine. What a super way to start our topic and get …
Snowy Day!!!
What a surprise this morning. A lovely white blanket of snow. We decided to bring the outdoors in. We collected some snow and played with our Antarctic animals. We found out some interesting facts and talked about why the snow melted as we were playing.
Reception Exit Point – Food & Plants
This term we have learnt about where our food comes from, talked about healthy and unhealthy foods and even looked at planting and caring for plants. As our exit point we used different foods to create pictures. We started by learning how to use the ‘bridge’ technique when cutting our fruit, the grating techniques for …
Shapes all around!
This week in Maths we have learnt all about shape. We first learnt the names of 2-d and 3-d shapes. We then went on a shape hunt to discover the different shapes in and around our environment.
Planting Beans
This week, as part of our topic we have planted some Broad Beans. We observed the different sizes and described how they felt. We then talked about what plants need to help them grow. We are going to take very good care of them and watch to see all the changes that take place. We …
Reception Entry Point – Food & Plants
This week we have started our new topic all about Food and Plants. As part of our entry point we discovered more about our senses. We first had to smell different types of food and plants. We had to guess what we were smelling and decide if we liked or disliked the smell. We smelt …
More Music in EYFS
Here are some pictures of Bluebirds adding music to We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
Reception – World Book Day
We all looked fabulous today as we celebrate World Book Day. We shared some of our favourite books with our friends talking about the characters and events that happened in the stories. We then made book marks, designed our own book covers and even went on a book scavenger hunt. As part of our music …
Reception – Let’s Pretend Exit Point
We have completed our topic about Let’s Pretend this week. We have continued our theme pretending to be Kings and Queens preparing for our banqueted on Tuesday. We baked bread using a kneading technique. We were very excited on Tuesday, as we all came dressed up and one of our parents, Mrs Lee came …
Reception – Children’s Mental Health Week
This week we have carefully thought about our mental health and wellbeing. We talked about how other people support us when we ‘Grow Together’ (the theme of this week). We looked at different emotions and how these emotions can make us feel. We found out that we have lots of people who like to help …