Class Teacher & Early Years Leader  = Miss Peers
Nursery Nurse = Miss Brown
Early Years Practitioners = Ms Dawson
PPA Cover = Mrs Ball

Welcome to Reception - September 2026

Reception class places have been allocated by Bradford Council. 

Please remember to accept your place by April 30th. 

We will then be in touch to invite you to a 'Welcome to Reception' meeting where we will inform you about the transition process.

Staff in Reception class have created their 'all about me' profiles to help your child to get to know them a little bit more about the adults who will be working in their class.

If your child is Catholic, please make sure you bring a copy of your child's baptism certificate to the office. 

staff profiles.pdf

 Our Class Saint

Our class saint in Reception class is St Patrick. 

Our feast day is the 17th March. 

 Our Learning

Please see below an overview of our focus in Reception class this half term. 

Reading Journey

Please see below our Reading Journey for the year.

reception reading journey.pdf

 Phonics

This term we are learning Basics 3 phonemes and consolidating our knowledge of Basics 2 phonemes.

* We are learning to recognise the sounds in the following order:

Basics 2
- 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, l
- Set 6: ff, ll, ss

Basics 3

- Set 7: j, v, w, x
- Set 8: y, z, zz, qu
- Set 9: ch, sh, th, ng
- Set 10: ai, ee, igh, oa
- Set 11: oo, oo, ar, or
- Set 12: ow, oi, er, ur
- Set 13: ear, air, ure

English

This term we are building on our Phonics knowledge to read and write captions / sentences. 

We focus on using our phonics knowledge to make words decodable. 

This term, our key author is: Giles Andreae.

This term we are learning the following in Maths:

- To count to 20 and beyond.
- To recognise when an amount is odd / even.
- To know and recall 1 more / 1 less than and double facts. 

This half term our topic is: To the ends of the Earth

Children will be learning about what happens after the Resurrection. They will hear accounts of Jesus’ Ascension, the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and the early community that formed and is now called the Early Church. They will then go on to learn some things about modern Christianity, think about what happens in a church, and make simple links between Christian beliefs and showing care for others.

At home you could help your children by:                                      

• reading the story of the Ascension and Pentecost with them
• when travelling about or on walks point out churches and ask ‘I wonder what happens in a church’.

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