Reception
Welcome to Our Class Page
In our class, we aim to live out our school values every day:
🌟 Care for ourselves, each other, and our world
🌱 Grow by embracing challenges and new learning
💪 Persevere even when things feel tricky
✨ Shine by being proud of who we are and what we achieve
Meet the Year R Team
Your child’s class teacher is Miss Moore and they are supported by Mrs McDowell & Miss Few who help make our classroom a warm and supportive place to learn.
Staying in Touch
Most of our communication is shared via email, so please make sure your contact details—especially your email address—are up to date on Arbor.
We're always happy to speak with you in person, but do bear with us at the end of the school day as our priority is making sure every child gets home safely.
Need to get in touch?
You can email us at: office.3200@crowmarsh-gifford.oxon.sch.uk
The office team will make sure your message reaches us.
Times
School gates open: 8:30am – 8:40am
It is important children arrive on time as learning starts right away!
Collection: 3:00pm from our classroom
Entry & exit via Newham Green path gate. Dogs & phones are not permitted on the playground & please refrain from using the climbing frame during this time.
Curriculum: What are we learning?
To ensure children gain the skills they need to effectively progress through school and the knowledge they need to be successful learners in the future, we have a bespoke Crowmarsh curriculum.
- Curriculum Overviews outlining the learning that will take place each term. can be found here at the bottom of our class page. These can be useful to instigate discussions at home.
- Learning in class will be posted here on our class page & sometimes on Instagram
You can find more information about the subjects we teach on Our Curriculum page of the school website.
We also share some of our wider curriculum events on our website Link
Learning at Home
Children spend only 20% of their waking hours in school. So, your support with learning at home is integral to your child’s success.
Reading
When we feel the children are ready, encourage:
- Reading at home daily, recorded in their reading record.
- Please make sure your child has their reading book and log in school every day.
Phonics
We used the All Aboard scheme for phonics. It is a crucial KS1 building block. You can read more about Phonics to enable your support at home on our Phonics page Phonics
Homework
Year R - 4: At the start of the new term, you will find here on our class page a Homework Grid with a range of tasks/activities. These activities are intended to be done as a family and link to what we are learning in school.
As you complete the home learning, take pictures and/or videos and email them to the class teachers so they can see them and share your achievements.
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Tapestry
Tapestry is a secure online learning journal. Both settings and parents can upload and access a child's profile. At CGPS we use Tapestry in Pre-School and Reception to share "wow" moments. We also encourage parents to share things they have done at home as this provides good talking points for children when at school.
In 2021, the EYFS statutory requirements were changed to ensure adult time was spent with the children in the setting rather than on paperwork.
The Statutory Framework states the following 2 points:
- "Practitioners should keep parents and/or carers up to date with their child’s progress and development" and
- "Ongoing assessment (also known as formative assessment) is an integral part of the learning and development process. It involves practitioners understanding children’s interests and what they know and can do, and then shaping teaching and learning experiences for each child reflecting that knowledge. In their interactions with children, practitioners should make and act on their own day-to-day observations about children’s progress and observations that parents and carers share. However, there is no requirement to keep written records in relation to this."
At CGPS we prefer to keep parents up to date verbally. This may be at pick up or drop off in a short conversation about something that has happened during the day or during one of our termly parent's meetings. We also provide parents with an end of year report.
Ongoing assessment is done in a variety of ways. Observations are made daily, and staff work with children during free flow, within their play, to work on areas such as personal, social and emotional development or fine motor skills. There are often a number of children working on the same next step. Where this is the case, we will put together short 'interventions' to support them as well as some structured tabletop activities that children can do independently and adapt in their own way.
For Reception, where possible, we will upload the moment of achievement to Tapestry however, we may share this with you in other ways such as sending home a piece of work or telling you at collection.