Welcome to Reception

Is your child starting at North Marston CE School in September 2025? 

Firstly I would like to offer you a warm welcome to our school. I hope you'll very quickly feel part of the community.

You will be receiving lots of information from the school over the next few months. This is to help your child have the best start to their school carer. Please see the dates below for transition days and meetings for both you and your child, where you will be able to talk to myself and other staff about your child's interests and any information you would like to share with us. You will also be able to see our newly refurbished classroom. I will be speaking with your child's current setting and visiting them where possible to help with the transition process.

In the meantime you may wish to read through Starting Reception booklet. This will give you ideas of things you could do with your children between now and September or reassure you that you are already doing everything you possibly can to help your child with their next step.

Looking forward to meeting you and your child soon.

Mrs Avery, Reception Teacher

Summer Term Dates for your diary

Dates for September 2025 Cohort

Wednesday 18th June at 6pm New Parents Evening (parents/carers for children starting in September 2025

Wednesday 25th June 2-3pm Stay and Play event for new starters and their parents/carers

Tuesday 1st July 1.15-3pm New starters transition afternoon (just children)

Dates for Current Ruby Class Reception Children

Thursday 12th June - Rabbi Zvi to visit

Thursday 26th June 2.45pm outside reading event

Thuirsday 17th July - end of term reading event - more details to follow

Reception this year is combined with Year One and is known as Ruby Class. The children will be taught as a group of reception children and some of the time as a whole class. Mrs Avery and Mr Armstead along with classroom assistants Mrs Jackson and Mrs Hunter will be teaching the children.

Monday -  PE (Mr Lambert)                  Please come to school in your PE clothes.

Wednesday -  PE  (Mr Armstead)        Please come to school in your PE clothes

Friday - Forest School (Mrs Hunter)   Please wear your uniform to school and bring Forest School clothes to change into. 

Home Learning in Reception

Phonics

In reception we use the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Phonics scheme. Each week you will receive a sheet via their book bag explaining the phonemes that have been taught that week, together with the rhymes to help them form the graphemes. It will also give you examples of words and sentences that have been read in class using the new phonemes as well as the tricky words we are focusing on that week. Please review these at home and practise writing using a variety of media, this could be using felt tips on large paper, chalks on the pavement or water and paint brushes on the shed. For more information on how you could help your child at home please click on the link below:

Little Wandle for Parents

Reading

Please read regularly with your child.  The books that they bring home are the ones that they have chosen and while they may not always match their reading level exactly they will give opportunities for creating conversations about vocabulary and building skills on comprehension, as well as decoding the words. The children will bring home another book, which is linked to their phonic knowledge and key word progression, these will be a physical book which is also available as an ebook to give you more flexibility. 

The children will also visit the school library at least once a week and will bring home a book to share with you on a Friday.

Useful websites and information for Early Years Parents