Welcome to Reception
Our class page is here to support both children and parents. On this page, you will find useful information on what happens in school each week. You will also find the latest class newsletter which gives you an overview of the current term. To showcase the children’s fantastic work and our wonderful classroom, we have a class photo gallery below – we hope you enjoy!
Teaching Staff
Our Reception class teachers are Mrs Woodhead and Mrs Vanacore.
Reception Curriculum Overview
We use sequenced modules to activate prior learning, build on skills and deepen knowledge AND understanding. Learning, vocabulary and content is cumulative; content is learned, retrieved and built upon.
In Reception, we have themes that aim to hook our children in and expose them to a wide range of experiences, we also support our children to take the learning into whichever direction they wish. During each theme, we aim to answer big questions, which will support us being active, independent, and resilient learners.
To see our Reception curriculum overview please visit our dedicated EYFS page: https://staugustines.npcat.org.uk/eyfs/
PE Days
Reception has PE every Monday and Thursday. On PE days, children should come to school wearing their full PE kit:
Bottle green t-shirt with St. Augustine’s logo
Non branded black shorts – Tight lycra style shorts are not allowed
Non branded plain black tracksuit bottoms for winter months
Branded or non branded bottle green school cardigan/ jumper
Black 1/4 zip sports top with St. Augustine’s logo
Black or white trainers (multicolored trainers are not permitted)
All St. Augustine’s kit and uniform can be purchased from Lollipops –
https://lollipops-middlesbrough.co.uk/product-category/s/st-augustines-school/
Class Newsletter
Each term, you will receive a class newsletter detailing the wonderful teaching and learning happening in our class.
Read all about it here –
Extra Information
Reception-Recommended-Reads-Checklist-2024
Reception-Recommended-Reads-Poster-2024
Welcome Meeting powerpoint 2026
Class Gallery
Click on the first image to see some of the amazing things happening in Reception.
Reception Curricular Goals
Throughout our time in Reception we will play, explore, investigate and question to enable each of us to reach our Reception Goals. This is not our curriculum but are the key goals that will enable our children to go on to be curious, resilient and independent learners.
Phonics
In Reception, we follow the synthetic phonics programme ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’; this is a method of learning letter sounds and blending them together to read and write words.
Please follow the link to a useful parent PowerPoint that explains how we teach early reading in Reception.
You can also access all documents and further information on the Little Wandle website:
