Welcome to Reception! 

Our Reception children are taught in Apple Class.

The teaching staff in Apple class are: Miss Andon, Mrs Miles, Mrs Indge and Mrs Sheikh. 

Mrs Miles is our class teacher on Monday and Tuesday. 

Miss Andon is our class teacher on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

On this page you will find some key information about Reception.

PE takes place on Fridays. All children will need to come to school wearing their PE
kit on Fridays.

Woodland Learning will take place weekly on Monday and Friday afternoons. On Mondays, children will come to school wearing school uniform as usual (recommended trousers that day) Woodland Learning kit will be put on over the top. This is kept in school. On Fridays, we will put Woodland Learning kit over the top of our PE clothes. 

Woodland Learning kit should include:

Waterproof trousers and jacket or all in one
Warm socks
Wellies
Hat and gloves
(please send clothes according to the weather, extra layers in the winter and sun hat in the summer)

Phonics – In the Reception year, we teach Phonics daily using Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS).

Bookbags are sent into school on a Thursday for resources and books to be changed and sent home for children to practise at home. It is the expectation that children read and practise their phonic sounds and ‘Harder to Read and Spell Words’ (HRSW) each day. Every child will be given a reading diary for parents and staff to record their progress. It is our expectation, in line with ELS fidelity, that every book is read FOUR times by a child. This is to enable decoding, reading with fluency and reading with expression. 

Children will need the following in school:

Woodland Learning kit
Spare change bag containing a full change of clothes (doesn’t need to be uniform)

Named water bottle containing water

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email us at apple26@fairford.gloucs.sch.uk