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: Dialogue and Encounter

Children will be learning about the importance of St Peter and St Paul to the Christian Church and the life of a local parish community. They will then learn about the celebration of Shabbat, the Jewish sabbath, and about the importance of prayer, Salah, in Islam.

At home you could help your children by:

• reading to them a story about St Peter or St Paul.

• talking to them about what they might use to help them pray

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