Reception Environment
- Imaginative play through storytelling.
- Our mud kitchen area provides opportunities for children to explore and learn together inspiring new conversations through social play.
- Our diverse range of bicycles builds on core muscle strength, team work and helping children to become physically ready to learn.
- Our garden area provides safe opportunities for the children to engage in body and movement play.
- Under the shelter is a small world area, providing numerous opportunities for storytelling and imaginative play. Also provides opportunities to become creative and seasonal investigations.
- Our garden area provides open ended exploration that the children can access independently.
- Seasonal mud kitchen exploring.
- Every morning the children engage in a busy finger activity.
- The writing area is always a favourite that sparks imagination and curiosity.
- At The Ryde we provide an environment that is engaging and fun for the children.
- Curriculum Information Reception Spring 2025 (548.64KB)
- Curriculum Information Reception Autumn 2024 (580.80KB)
- Curriculum Information Reception Spring 2024 (552.67KB)
- Reception Curriculum Overview 2023 - 2024 (687.10KB)
- Reception Maths Information for Parents (107.07KB)
- Early Years Reading Information for Parents (499.68KB)
Learning Links
Mathshttps://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/ey-numberblocks-at-home/ |
Phonics/Readinghttps://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/ |
Jan 312025
Chinese New Year
On Friday 31st January, Reception had a special visit from a parent called Jenny. We have been learning about Chinese New Year and the story that explains how the year of the animals came to be. We discussed as a class and explored the zodiac wheel which led us to finding 2025 is the year of the snake.
Jenny planned lots of fun activities for us to take part in, such as using chopsticks, exploring different animal masks, crafting lanterns, and writing in Chinese! Jenny taught us how to say hello (Nǐ Hǎo 你好)and thank you (Xiè Xiè 谢谢) in Chinese too!
We had so much fun learning these new skills and enjoyed taking home our special goodie bags! We thanked Jenny for this fun filled workshop she prepared for us!
Dec 052024
Parent Forest School Activity
At the end of Autumn term parents and carers joined the class for a creative activity using card with dried seed heads, petals, evergreen leaves and wood slices to create their own calendar for 2025 and campfire with smores.
Here are some photos of the session.
Nov 142024
A visit from the Hedgehog lady
We had a special visit from a local Hedgehog lady, called Pat. Our focus text in literacy is ‘The Prickly Hedgehog’ and we have become hedgehog experts completing lots of research about them. We discussed different ways of finding information out, such as online and in books. As a class we produced some questions to ask Pat.
We have learnt new vocabulary such as nocturnal and hibernate. We know that hedgehogs like to eat crunchy beetles and earth worms. They hibernate in winter months because it is cold and beetles and earth worms stop coming out, therefore they would have no food. Overall, we really enjoyed this visit and it inspired some of the children to want to become vets and hedgehog experts.
Oct 222024
Real Superheroes
On Tuesday 22nd October Reception had a special visit from a paramedic. Our focus text in literacy is ‘Real Superheroes’ and we have been discussing the different people who help us such as paramedics, teachers, postal workers, and supermarket workers. We know that these are some of the occupations that have impacted our lives in some way.
As a class we wrote some questions for the paramedic and had a virtual tour of inside an ambulance. We got to see and hold some of the equipment that the paramedic uses on a daily basis. He explained how he worked with other services such as the police and fire crew, that we linked back to our focus text. His work is based in London which fascinated the children in asking how fast his ambulance could go in such a busy place. Overall, we really enjoyed this visit and it inspired some of the children to want to become paramedics when they are older.
Mar 272024
Reception Forest School Parent Activity
At the end of term parents and carers joined the class in two creative activities using recycled or sustainable natural products.
One was using recycled card with dried seed heads, petals, ferns and silver birch twigs to create their own picture or bookmark.
The second activity was using recently harvested willow withies from the willow tunnel on the field to create a wreath or crown, decorated with ribbon or wool.
Mar 202024
Planting
As part of our Reception learning we explore and learn about how seeds grow. This year we have planted a flower bed in our garden area and we are learning how to care for our seeds and the signs to look for when they are growing. We have also planted potatoes, beetroot, spinach, peas, parsley and coriander. Also, we have planted popcorn kernels for the school guinea
pigs – I wonder what will happen to them?
Mar 052024
Ark Farm visit
It is always exciting when a farm visits you at school! After learning about each of the animals, how to care for them and how to pat them safely, we were allowed to explore and interact with the different variety of animals. From small to big, pointy horns and fluffy wool, our senses helped us to engage with each of the animals providing new experiences for many of us. This experience gave us the opportunity to write animal clues for our friends to guess who we are.
Dec 182023
PE sessions
To keep ourselves healthy and ready to learn we have weekly PE sessions. We know the importance of warming our bodies up first and stretching. We have a different activity each week that teaches us new skills and helps build our stamina.
We also had a dance session with Miss Lisa.
Dec 112023
Dinosaur Adventure
We were very lucky to have Dr Polet come and have a dinosaur adventure with us. He shared some fossils with us and then we became palaeontologists! We had to excavate our dough, match the dinosaur and then classify our picture to the correct time period. Dr Polet even let us take our dinosaurs home.
Nov 242023
Visit from the Guinea Pigs
We had some very special visitors to Reception – our school Guinea Pigs! Mrs Thompson brought Poppy, Daisy and Bluebell to visit. We learnt how to care for them, what they can eat and we all were able to hold and stroke them. They were very friendly.
We now help care for them.
Nov 092023
Pumpkin Soup Making
This week was all about pumpkins! After reading the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’, we explored what was inside pumpkins. We mixed two colours (red and yellow) to make orange to paint a pumpkin and finally we followed instructions to make pumpkin soup! This created an algorithm. Mrs O’Connor taught us how to dip fresh bread rolls into the pumpkin soup to have a taste. The majority thought it was delicious!
Sep 152023
Seaside Day
Reception class spent the day at the seaside! It was a glorious day building sandcastles, paddling in the water, making kites, exploring rock pools and designing vehicles that we could use as transport. No beach trip is complete without an ice cream at the end of the day!
We enjoyed reading these 2 books:
May 252023
Eric the Hedgehog
Reception class was very lucky to have a special visitor – Eric the Hedgehog. In our local school community, we have Pat and Corinne who look after poorly hedgehogs before returning them to the wild. They bought Eric the Hedgehog for us to meet before he was released. We learnt what Eric likes to eat, how to look after a poorly hedgehog and how to help hedgehogs in the wild. We also found out that hedgehogs can swim and they have a tiny tail.
After meeting Eric the Hedgehog some children decided to design and create hedgehog homes.
After meeting Eric the Hedgehog some children decided to design and create hedgehog homes.
Mar 222023
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Reception class had an exciting trip to Stockwood Discovery Centre to explore transport from the past using the story ‘Mrs Armitage On Wheels’ as inspiration. We spent the morning in the galleries investigating different sizes of wheels and we even spotted Mrs Armitage and her dog Breakspear. After our picnic lunch we had a treasure hunt around the grounds using our senses to spot the clues. It was a great day!