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Welcome to Reception

Parents Induction Meeting: 3rd July

Welcome

Mrs Thelwell –Deputy Head EYFS Key Stage 1

Mrs Morrey –Inclusion Manager

Mrs Green –Deputy Head EYFS Key Stage 1

Mrs Hales–Deputy Head Key Stage 2

Mrs Mansfield–Office Manager

Support Team

Senior Management Team

Inclusion Manager –Mrs Morrey

Thursday 5th at 9.00am for all Reception children with siblings and children who are booked into Darby’s. 9.30am start for children without siblings and new

starters.

Please make sure you drop off and pick up your children promptly. 8:50am Morning drop off, at EYFS door next to Reception outdoor area.3:25 pm Pick up, this will be from KS1 playground, Children will be brought to their classroom gate.

School Start Times

Normal Drop Off and Pick Up

Uniform

• Please ensure that names are in EVERYTHING!!!

• Send coats EVERYDAY• Sensible shoes and no jewellery• P.E. kits in school everyday• Forest School kit• Palmers or Early Years

Good attendance is vitally important to your child’s education. We monitor the children’s attendance ½ termly and will write to you if it drops below 90%. Following this it will be referred to the EET(Education Enforcement Team).

If your child is ill please inform the school office that your child will be absent. For sickness and diarrhoea we ask that the children are kept away from school for 48 hours to avoid infecting other children and re-infecting themselves. Further advice on other medical conditions is available on our website ‘Illness Actions’.

Attendance

Illness

Did you know you can pay your school online?ParentPay is the school online payment system that lets you make secure online payments by credit and debit card. It’s used to make cashless payments in schools for

dinner money and activities like trips, clubs and music lessons.

If you haven’t been given a login you will receive a letter that will enable you to log on and choose a password. Although all pupils in Early Years and Key Stage 1 are entitled to free school meals it will enable you to pay for trips and Darby’s wrap-a round.

£30 per child and £50 if you have more than one child attending Dorridge Primary School from Nursery to Year 6.

School Fund

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Mrs Ashe, Mrs Green, Mrs Thelwell, Mrs Hales,

Mrs Fantham

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Tonight’s Meeting

• To meet the Reception team. • To have an overview of the curriculum that

your child will be covering in Reception.• To understand the how we teach in order to

cover the requirements of the EYFS curriculum.• To identify the key ways in which you can help

your child at home and in school.• To understand school readiness

Reception Team

What is the Early Years Foundation Stage?

• The Early Years Foundation Stage (E.Y.F.S.) is the stage of education for children from birth to the end of the Reception year

• It is based on the recognition that children learn best through play and active learning

Seven Areas of learning…

1. Communication and Language2. Physical Development 3. Personal, Social and Emotional Development4. Literacy5. Mathematics6. Understanding of the world7. Expressive Arts and Design

3 Prime Areas

• Children should mostly develop the 3 prime areas first, which are…Communication and language; Physical development; Personal, social and emotional development.

These prime areas are those most essential for your child’s healthy development and future learning.

Communication and Language

• Listening :Attention span, concentration and response

• Speaking:Extending vocabulary, exploring new words, language to express themselves, talking to organise and sequence to clarify thinking, ideas and feelings

Physical Development

• Gross Motor:Using a range of large equipment, to develop a sense of space around themselves and others, Encourages balance etc.Moving energetically such as running, jumping.

• Fine Motor Skills Developing fine motor skills, using simple tools, form letters correctly, holding a pencil correct etc..

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Self Regulation :Understanding own feelings and regulating their own behaviour

• Manging Self: To have basic hygiene, going to the toilet, dressing self and understand healthy food choices .

• Building relationshipsworking and playing cooperatively.

4 Secondary Areas

• As children grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in 4 specific areas.

• Literacy (LD); • Mathematics (MD); • Understanding the world(UW);• Expressive arts and design(EAD).

Literacy

• Reading comprehension and word reading To read & understand simple sentences. Use phonic knowledge to decode regular words & read them aloud accurately and some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when reading

• Writing:To write simple sentences which can be read by themselves & others. To spelt some words correctly & others are phonetically plausible.

Literacy

Mathematical Development

• Number:• Recognising numbers, counting in groups,

recalling number bonds to 5 and then 10. • Numerical Patterns:• Exploring number patterns up to ten.

Mathematics

Understanding of the World• People, Culture and Communities:

Talking about the past and present, to know about similarities & differences between themselves & others & among families, communities & Traditions.

• Past and Present :Talk about peoples roles in society and know similarities and difference between the past and now.

• The Natural World:To explore the world around them and to make observations of animals and plants and to understand the effect of the changing seasons.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Creating with materials • sing songs, make music & dance, & experiment with

ways of changing them. To use & explore a variety of materials, tools & techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form & function.

• Performing • Children use what they have learnt about media and

materials in original ways, thinking about uses & purposes. They represent their own ideas, thoughts & feelings through design & technology, art, music, dance, role play & stories.

A typical day in Reception…

• Come in and self-register• Busy books• Phonics• Continuous Provision• Assembly • Dough Gym & Funky Fingers • Literacy • Lunch• Register • Maths• Continuous Provision • Story/ collect bag etc.

Self- Register

Reading

Virtual Base- Phonics• We teach phonics through • ‘Letters and Sounds’ Daily.

• Phases 2- 4

Phase 2 • GPC - This is short for Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a

GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa

• Set 1 - s a t p

• Set 2 - i n m d

• Set 3 - g o c k

• Set 4 - ck e u r

• Set 5 - h b f ff l ll s ss

• Jolly Phonics Phonic sounds

Phase 3

• Phase 3 continues in the same way as Phase 2 and introduces more new GPCs. By the end of Phase 3 the children will know one way of writing down each of the 44 phonemes.

• Set 6 - j v w x

• Set 7 - y z zz qu

• Consonant digraphs - ch sh th ng

• Vowel digraphs (and trigraphs) ai ee igh oa

oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er

Phase 3

Phase 4

• To help children to blend and segment words e.g. truck, help

• To know and understand phase 4 tricky words e.g. said, like, come, was etc.

• To begin to use phonic knowledge in their writing

Continuous Provision

Assembly

Dough Gym & Funky Fingers

Dough Gym & Funky Fingers

Handwriting

Literacy

Lunch Time

School Meals

Our school meals are cooked on site and provide the children with 4 choices every day. Our team of experienced cooks are able to meet all dietary needs of individual children.

Self- Register

Mathematics

Continuous Provision

Story Time/ Bag collection

Forest School‘Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor play and learning.’

FootieBugs

Wraparound

The first few weeks

Settling in and getting to know one another.

We will find out what the children already know and what they can already do

and use this information to help us develop an profile for each child.

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2Simple

2Simple

Date: 20-Jun-2017

Notes Rosie and Darcy are working nicely together to

make their own potion in forest school. Darcy, "Its

a freezing potion, for everybody, all the people."

Rosie, "But not everyone, not everyone, only the

people who aren't nice to us. The ones that

everyday are unkind."

Darcy, "Yeah only bad people not the good people.

So not you Mrs Walker."

The girls are searching for petal and leaves to add

to their potion. They work together and listen to

each other's ideas about how to make their potion.

Observed by Catherine Walker

General Matters…

• Morning Routine • Milk/ water and snack- free flow • Lunch time play • No toys or personal• Bags and pump bags • Book bags (key chains) and reading book

in school each day • Photos throughout Reception • Sickness

The EYFS defines school readiness as…

‘The broad range of skills, knowledge and attitudes children need as foundations for good future progress.’

(Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, page 4).

Dorridge Primary School adopts UNICEF’s description of School Readiness as consisting of three pillars –

Children’s readiness for school

Family’s readiness for school

School’s readiness for children Together, these pillars maximise each child’s likelihood of success as they progress through their

time in school.We believe that…

Children are ‘school ready’ when they are resilient and confident, with a keenness to learn and have effective

personal and social skills.

School Readiness

And Finally…

• If you would like to come in to school to help out in we are always grateful for volunteers!!!

• If you have any worries or concerns please come in and see us and we will do our best to help you

• Home Organisers to be signed on the first day in the hall after drop off

• Facebook • Parent questionnaire about tonight• We look forward to working with you and your child

in September

Reception Team

Parents at Dorridge School

• The school has a strong & open relationship with its parents

• Parent Council encourages the on-going evaluation & improvement of the school environment

• In 2018 DPS obtained its Leading Parent Partnership Award (LLPA)

• Parent volunteers are a vital part of school life

Parents at Dorridge School• There are many ways for parents to get involved in school life:

How to get

involved:

What that means

Parent Teacher

Association (PTA)

Organise a program events to raise funds for the school

Parent Council Join a dedicated forum of staff & parents, who work together on

mutually important issues to enhance school life

School Governing

Body

A number of elected Parent Governors sit on the Body, which

works in close partnership with the Head & staff to set the

school’s aims & policies & to promote high standards of

educational achievement.

Volunteering Give as much or as little time as you have to support the day-to-

day running of the school

Showing your support by attending events is as important as holding a role

Dorridge Primary School PTA

PTA Supports Curriculum Enrichment

Enhancing Learning Environment

PTA Supports School Projects

How can you help?