Reception - Mrs Greaves

Welcome to Class Reception.

At Lowdham Primary School the Reception year builds on the learning and experiences that your children will have already experienced at Pre-School and at home.

We have a very experienced staff team - Mrs Greaves, the class teacher, Miss Colson our amazing Teaching Assistant, and Mrs McNichol (who teaches one morning a week) - all of whom have as much fun every day as the children! As a staff we believe that children learn best when they are interested and engaged in fun activities.

Our Curriculum

All Nursery and Reception classes follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) Curriculum, which is delivered through 7 areas of learning:

Communication and Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts & Design

Each area has Early Learning Goals (17 in total), which are the standards that a child is expected to achieve by the end of their reception year. These are reported to the Local Authority in June, to parents in July and are passed onto the Year 1 teacher.

A usual guide for parents can be found by following this link -

EYFS curriculum guide for parents

At Lowdham Primary School our curriculum is built around general topics each half term, whilst also incorporating any special interests the children may have:

Autumn 1 - Special Stories

Autumn 2 - Celebrations

Spring 1 - Fairy Tales and Traditional Stories

Spring 2 - Dinosaurs

Summer 1 - All Creatures Great and Small

Summer 2 - Amazing Adventures

We have purposeful play at the heart of our learning and make full use of our fantastic school grounds, including Forest Fun Fridays.

We teach phonics through a program called Bug Club and run a reading workshop for parents early in the Autumn term.

Useful Links

Teach Your Monster - reading, phonics and maths games

Teach Your Monster

Numberblocks - maths learning and games