Nursery and Reception

Welcome to Bumblebees Class

Welcome to our Early Years reception class, Bumblebees. Bumblebees are taught by Mrs Griffiths and Mrs Lowe. We are a team of passionate Early Years educators committed to fostering each child’s unique potential. Our approach is centered around nurturing their innate curiosity and creativity.

Through a rich tapestry of activities, we aim to spark a lifelong love for learning. We provide a diverse range of experiences that cater to different learning styles, ensuring that every child feels valued and inspired.

Our curriculum is designed to develop confident, inquisitive learners who are not just prepared for the next stage of their education but are eager to embrace it with enthusiasm.

Our Early Years classroom is set up to enable independence in the children’s learning with provocations set up to entice learning through play.

In Bumblebees we are proud to part of the Tilstock family and we have high expectations for everything we do. From smart walking, demonstrating our school values to following our school rules ‘Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Resilient, Be Safe’.

Every morning we all enjoy daily sessions of Phonics following the Read, Write, Inc programme. We learn English, Maths, Reading, and Handwriting every morning too.

In the afternoons, Reception enjoy enriching activities such as art, cooking, continuous provision based around our theme and English topics. Alongside child-initiated sessions to enable them to develop the key strands of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Curriculum Planner

Bumblebees Autumn Term Curriculum Planner 2023 – currently being updated, please check back soon

Bumblebee Planning Autumn 1 2023 – currently being updated, please check back soon

EYFS guidance for parents/carers – currently being updated, please check back soon

The development statements and early learning goals can be found here: Development statements

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Homework – Reception: Expectations and links

Reading

Please hear your child read regularly, ideally every day. Please then write in their reading diary and teachers will sign planners each day. Your child’s book will be changed every Thursday.

Handwriting

Your child has begun their handwriting journey. Each week we will send home letter formation homework for them to practice the skills they have been learning in class. We always love to see children’s writing so please allow them to continue in their books if they wish to show further practice.

Doodle Maths

There will be weekly homework set onto MyMaths, where your child can complete a task related to the math’s concept they are currently studying. Please follow this link: DoodleMaths | DoodleLearning

Topic

Each half-term the children will receive homework based on the current topic that we are covering in school. Activities will be posted in your child’s homework diary.

We want to share this work in class – Please post pictures of these pieces of homework onto your child’s portfolio onto Class DoJo and children will be awarded DoJo points for every piece of homework that they complete and share. On the last week of half-term, class teacher’s will review all the homework and children will have the opportunity to share these pieces with their classmates.

Our class video

Here is one of our wonderful Bumblebee Class children in Reception reciting his Poetry by Heart poem entitled ‘At The zoo’ by William Makepeace Thackeray.