Reception 2023 - 2024

Welcome to Reception

Miss Jackson & Miss Archer

We are a fantastic team of children starting their school journey at The Quinta. Miss Jackson and Miss Archer are the teachers of Reception. Mrs Frodsham, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Hurley and Miss Morris are our amazing teaching assistants that help us all. We have two classrooms; an outdoor classroom and the Quinta woods with a den and a mud kitchen!  

Pete the cat helps us on our journey through school as we learn to rock in our school shoes. His stories help us settle into school and make friends. ‘Is he afraid?’ ‘Goodness No!’ ‘It’s all good!’. He rocks in his school shoes and he will be our mascot all through our first year in school. 

Pete will enjoy finding out about our families. It will be good to find out more about you all. We will draw our families and create self portraits in the style of the artist Mondrian, find out the different ways our families celebrate special events.  As summer turns to autumn we will go on welly walks to observe the changes in the trees and find our school orchard. I am really looking forward to the apple biscuits that we will make. Delicious! It's going to be a very busy first term but full of lots of fun as we will play, laugh and learn with our friends.

We will also meet Granny Fantastic who loves words and is always there to help us learn lots of new vocabulary.  

We will use the read, write inc phonic activities everyday to help us learn sounds and oral blend with Fred the frog.  We also love to strengthen our muscles ready to write with daily dough disco and a bit of squiggle while you wiggle.

In mathematics we encourage the childen develop their noticing and subitising skills to support them in securing a deep number sense which they will build upon during EYFS and then into the Year 1 maths curriculum.  The numberblocks help us along our maths jouriney and we are always very excited when one arrives at The Quinta.