Reception Parent Information Session.

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Our first RWInc sound!

Thank you to those of you that were able to come along to the Parent Information session this morning. I will add the slide show for those that couldn't come.

Today we began Read Write Inc. Our first sound is "m", press your lips together and say "mmmmmmm" "m" is a stretchy sound. The rhyme and picture that matches "m" is "maisie mountain mountain". We also practised writing "m" while saying the rhyme. It is very important that they form the letter correctly, start at the top and go down and up maisie then over the two mountains. You could practise this at home or think of words that begin with "m".


Tomorrow we will be learning "a".

We had a big focus on drinking our water today.

See you all tomorrow,

Mrs. Johnson and the Reception Team.

Reception.............first few days!

We hope you all enjoyed your first three days and are energised for our first full week!!!!!!


We had a mysterious suitcase left for us on Thursday with a rather sticky mess of marmalade sandwiches as well as a blanket and pillow, a map and a letter. We were able to match the country to the one on the world map on our TV and discovered it was Peru in South America. Needless to say, our visitor revealed themselves on Friday..........it was Paddington!!!!! The children decided we should make marmalade sandwiches to cheer him up as he was feeling a little home sick!!!!!
Paddington has moved into the house in Reception and we are going to make him feel very welcome!
Edie even designed a raincoat for him!

Congratulations to Henry C and Edie who reached 10 tokens and were able to choose a prize from the treasure box. It was also lovely to praise the whole class during praise assembly, celebrating how settled in they were. Years 1 and 2 welcomed us as we stood and bravely waved at them all.


We are focussing on our tidying up skills and being kind to others at the moment.

You should all have received an email sent yesterday asking you to create an account with Tapestry. This is an electronic learning journey which will track the children's learning against the early learning goals and will notify you of this as well as you also being able to add your own evidence. This is different to Marvellous Me which will be used more for WOW moments.

A junk modelling plea..........please could you collect a few items of card board packaging or plastic containers that are clean, and simply add them to the junk modelling box in the classroom - we would like to replenish it daily as the children love using it and it is such a valuable resource. (NOT toilet rolls - thank you)

We hope you have found time to enjoy your time to talk home learning and look forward to reading what you discussed. There is no hurry for this to be in, but we will be sending home a new one each Friday.

The first Parents Information session is tomorrow morning at 9:00am in the school hall.

See you all tomorrow,

Mrs. Johnson and the Reception Team.

Our first day in Reception!

What a fantastic first day!!!!! The children were so calm, happy and confident.........a real pleasure! Mums and Dads, thank you to all of you for your super smily welcomes and for feeling happy to leave your child so swiftly, they really settled so well.

Strangely, over the holidays, something or someone seems to have moved into the cupboard!!!!!!! We don't know who, but they left a lot of tissues and we were obviously very upset. The children decided they could cheer them up by giving them a big hug and by writing to them and making cards!!!!! Hopefully this works and we may meet them tomorrow if they're not too shy!!!!


Not only did we take part in the daily mile with the whole school, we were accompanied by our year 4 buddies! We went and had our lunch in the dinner hall and used wonderful manners..........lots of us were able to cut up our food with a knife and fork! After lunch we did some yoga which was wonderful exercise as well as very calming! We even went to a whole school assembly!!!!!!!!

Consequently, there were a lot of yawns by the end of the day ( as well as smiling faces! ).

We will be changing for PE tomorrow.

Thank you for waiting patiently at the end of the day, due to the letters we had to hand out. Letters will be coming home electronically from next week.

I will endeavour to use Marvellous Me tomorrow so please do download the app.

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.


Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Cura.

Welcome to Reception!

We would like to wish you all a very warm welcome to The prince of Wales School and to Reception!

The Reception Team and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are ready to start your exciting journey with us...........






It is going to be a fun packed year, full of learning new things, fun, laughter, adventure and happiness. We are all excited and feel very lucky that we have been given the privilege of teaching in Reception...........one of the most important years of your school life!

What will I need to do on my first day????????

1. Come in with a big smile!
2. Find my peg and hang up my coat and bag.
3. Put my book bag in  the book bag box.
4. Put my water bottle and healthy snack in the water and snack box.
5. Choose an activity that I would like to do.
6. Wave good bye with a big smile to the person who brought me in!



We will see you all in the morning for your very first day of school!

Mrs. Johnson and the Reception Team.

Reception - Enjoy The Summer Holidays!

Hi all,

I've already spoken enough words about how fantastic it has been working with your children this year and how exciting it is to have them for yet another year.. Yesterday we had a brilliant afternoon with pre-school that ended the year perfectly. A few pictures from the last day yesterday to send you all off for a glorious summer break.

Reception team, out.

Reception - Tomorrow Afternoon

Hi all,

Tomorrow afternoon we will be having a small end of year celebration in school from 3.15pm. We will be gathered for photographs as well as our 'Most likely to be...' awards. Please feel free to head to school for this time if you would like to. We will also be sending children home with their PE bags tomorrow afternoon.

Big congratulations to all the children who won an award this morning in the end of year award ceremony! Some very tricky decisions we had to make, they all could have been won by so many children.

Reception team