Reception Parent Meeting 2023-24

All children in reception will take part in a baseline assessment within the first 6 weeks of starting school. The baseline assessment is a short, interactive and practical assessment of your child's early literacy, communication, language and mathematics skills. Your child cannot 'pass' or 'fail' the assessment. Its main purpose is to create a starting point to measure the progress schools make with their pupils.

Provide children with a book bag. A word wall will be sent home with high frequency words on it that match the phonics phase your child is working in. When your child progresses to the next phonic sound then they will be given a set of new words. Reading Challenge.

Please ensure that your child arrives on time every day. If the class reception door is closed , it means your child is late and will have to go through the main reception door. Please do not use the nursery door. Staff will bring children out to the playground at the end of the day and release children when parents/carer are seen. Please speak with staff at the end of the school day (for safety) or telephone or email the office No dogs in the playground. Safety on the road and car parks. Security. Access during school hours – main office. Healthy Eating and packed lunches. Water only in bottles. Free milk and fruit. PE kit stays in school and staff will send home every half term. Jewellery – watches and stud earrings only. On PE day take out earrings or cover with a plaster at home. Holidays and attendance. Exceptional circumstances.

Please ensure that names are in all items. Send coats everyday, as weather changes, hats, scarves, gloves (all named). Sensible shoes (no trainers) Sun hat in summer months. Wellies for welly walk, letter will go out.

Numicon resources Taught daily Practical Mighty Maths and focus groups Number formation Numbers and patterns Numbots (after Autumn half term)

Welcome to Denton West End Primary School

Reception Parent Induction Meeting 2023-24

Mrs Garlick Deputy Head Teacher Safeguarding Lead

Mrs Hart Class Teacher Assistant Head

Mrs Abbott Nursery Teacher EYFS Lead

The website is full of useful information for you to read. Every class has its own web page under 'Children's Area'. On the Reception page you will find useful documents to read and photographs of the children learning.

The staff will send tweets out to show you the amazing learning your child has been doing in class or on special trips.

Build fine motor skills&nbsp;- using tweezers,&nbsp; pipettes, beads, pegs Dough disco - to build up muscles in hands Writing bag sent home Handwriting practice – Martin Harvey Letter formation sheets will be sent home Lower case letters initially&nbsp;

Begin with a group read progressing to 2 guided reading sessions per week. A small group of children learning with the same book. Teach a specific&nbsp;reading skill. Develop understanding of characters, settings, events. We use a variety of reading scheme books for individual readers. Books are linked to the phonic phase the children are learning in. Reading strategies – using the pictures, blending the letter sounds, see what word will fit. Individual reading later in the year, books will be sent home when a child is ready. Books sent home will be at a lower stage than the book they are reading at school. Change twice a week when reading diary has a comment and signature from parents at home. Books will not be changed until signed.

Classroom helpers, welly walk, listening to readers. Friends of Denton West End – cake’n’bake sale, Valentines disco – give details to staff if you would like to be involved. Skills, occupation, recycling resources. Information to parents termly. Letters etc. will be sent by parent mail. Ensure that you have signed up and downloaded the app so that you don't miss important messages. .

If you have any worries or concerns please come and speak to a member of staff. We look forward to working with you and your child throughout Reception. The Reception Team

Come in sit down for the register. Register and carpet input. Rotation of activities - Focus activity, independent learning, outdoor learning, workshop and continuous provision. Phonics Toilet and lunch time . &nbsp;Mighty Maths Continuous provision, topic work and handwriting practice. Story/Guided reading/Individual readers.

Daily differentiated phonics sessions. Teaching new sounds through practical activities. Children will need to have a good understanding of phase one phonics (rhyming words, segmenting and blending, hearing sounds in the environment) before they can move to phase two phonics.

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