All Saints' CE Primary School Alrewas

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The Reception staff understand the expectations will be individualised to accommodate each individual to ensure each child will meet their personal goals and the learning expectations.

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Accidents and Incidents:

As children develop physically, accidents can occasionally happen. In this event, the majority of staff are trained in first aid. Only qualified staff will ever administer first aid to your child. If your child has an accident, you will be informed upon collection and will be given an accident slip. The accident will be recorded in our accident book along with details of the first aid administered and by whom. In the event of a more serious accident or bump to the head, you will be informed immediately by telephone. Your child will be monitored and, in most cases, will be able to continue with their day as normal. In the event of an accident causing concern, you could be asked to collect your child for further medical attention.

Collection of Children:

Children are to be picked up from the Reception gate at 3.15pm. They are released one at a time to a known adult. A child will only be released into the care of their parents/guardians or other authorised persons. You will be required to write a letter/email giving permission for any person other than yourself to collect your child. We will not release your child unless we have your written/verbal permission in advance.

Late Collection:

If you know you are going to be unavoidably late to collect your child please contact the school office. Please inform us of your intention to collect. If an unknown person is to be collecting your child, please send a photograph (wherever possible) of the person who you authorise to collect them.

Lunch Time:

Lunch is served in the school hall for Reception children. Teachers accompany children for lunch in the hall for the first 15 minutes of the lunch break. Each day children can choose either to have a hot school meal (free of charge) or bring a packed lunch. Please ensure that your child’s lunch box is clearly labelled with their name. Thank you.

Assessment:

At the start of Reception, children will undertake the statutory Reception baseline assessment. This is administered in the first 6 weeks of your child starting school. It is administered by your child’s class teacher on an individual basis. It helps staff to understand what your child already knows and can do when they start school and also set next steps and targets for your child. At the end of Reception, children are assessed by their teacher, against the Early Learning Goals (a copy can be found at the bottom of the class page). You will receive a report to tell you whether your child is at the ‘expected’ level required or are ‘emerging’ which means they have not yet met the required standard for the end of Reception. They will receive support in year 1 if this is the case so please don’t worry. Assessment plays an important part in helping parents, carers and practitioners to recognise children’s progress, understand their needs, and to plan activities and support. Ongoing assessment (also known as formative assessment) is an integral part of the learning and development process. It involves practitioners observing children to understand their level of achievement, interests and learning styles, and to then shape learning experiences for each child reflecting those observations.

Health snack at breaktime:

During our morning session, Reception have their snack time. During this time the children will be pick some fruit that we have available that day and optional milk and they will sit either outside on our seating area or on their carpet spot inside during this time because it is an expectation that children are supervised by an adult whilst they eat. Items from a lunchbox will not be consumed during this healthy snack time (Crisps, biscuits etc). The fruit provided by school may not be suitable for all children, if you would like your child to eat preferred fruit from home during this time then please make a member of the reception team aware. Please ensure the box of fruit is labelled and this will be collected by a member of the Reception team and placed with the fruit available, ready to be eaten by the child.

8:35-9:00 - Registration Session: The EYFS/KS1 playground gate will be open, and children may come straight to the classroom. The registration provision will begin by being greeted at the door, followed by putting their belongings onto their peg and updating the personalised self-registration display. The children will then accurately update their zones of regulation display, ready to then access the registration provision linked to the current learning. At the start of the year there will be fine motor tuff trays for the children to come in and access on the main carpet, alongside a mark making activity and cutting activity set up on the back two tables. As the year progress there will be 5 activities that children complete in the morning according to their group which rotate across the week so that all children access them. The 5 activities include - a fine motor activity, cutting activity, mark making activity, counting activity and pattern activity. At this part of the year, children will come in and find their group picture and the children will know that is the activity they complete on that morning.

9:00-10:30 - Session 1: Assembly / Phonics / Snacktime

On Monday children will engage and take part in the whole school assembly after the register. On Tuesday Reception will have a whole class assembly within the classroom where we further discuss the topic from the Monday assembly and answer any question they may have. On Wednesday, Children will have a whole class worship opportunity.

Our first learning session of the day will be our phonics. Children will engage and follow the Twinkl Phonics scheme. Within our phonics session the children will explore new sounds and letter formation and practice their reading skills. During our phonics, the children will enjoy a 'disco'. We break our session up with movement breaks and the children really enjoy this. We may practice writing a sound, hop to the disco for a movement break and then practice another sound and we repeat this cycle. After our phonics session, the children will engage with the provision set up within Reception. Children will also engage with a small adult focus group to practice the sound and letter formation from the session.

At 10:15 the children will sit in two small circles on the carpet and we will begin our snack time where they will be offered a healthy snack and milk. As discussed, children are more than happy to bring in their own fruit or vegetables within a named plastic tub that the children can choose to have at this time. After our snack, the children will have their play time on the main playground where they will play alongside Year 1 and Year 2 to finish our first session of the day.

10:30-12:00 - Session 2:

After the children's playtime, we will have a look at the story they have voted for. This short story session after play time allows the children to come in and settle before starting the maths learning session. After the maths learning session the children will choose their activities and children rotate accessing the adult led focus group that will further consolidate and extend the learning from the maths session. at 11:45 the children will have another opportunity to explore a story that relates to our topic. After this, children will engage in a range of nursery rhymes as children gradually get ready for lunch which starts at 12:00. We are a nut free school, therefore please ensure any packed lunches do not contain nuts.

1:00-3-15 - Afternoon Session:

After lunch time, children will take part in dough disco where we engage in a range of activities involving playdough to help build their fine motor control and hand muscles to aid in their writing journey. After Dough Disco the children will engage in provision focusing on name writing. In the afternoon session children will explore sessions across the week alongside the opportunity to choose. These include: Indoor and outdoor PE, art, music, understanding of the world, PSED. When possible we will always try to end the afternoon session with an opportunity outside on the playground/field/pirate ship. After this playtime outside the children will collect their things and we will finish the day with a story and the children will then be dismissed from the reception gate.

PE Kit:

1) Plain white t-shirt (with our without school logo) / 2) Black or navy shorts, joggers or leggings

3) Pumps / trainers / 4) Optional navy or black plain zip-up top / 5) Long hair should be tied back.

Children need to bring in their PE kit into school, as the children will be getting changed PE as part of our curriculum. Please can you label all your child's clothing. The PE kits will be sent home at the end of every half term.

We are passionate about reading. We will change reading books once a week. We will be reading Rhino Readers, which are part of our Twinkl phonics scheme. Please can you record what and how your child has read in their reading record at least 3 times a week. 5 (or more) entries will mean that tokens will be awarded to your child for their house. Please can your child bring their reading book and reading record to school every day to utilise reading opportunities within school.