Reception

8.40-8:55am: Registration and morning jobs
9.05am: Phonics
9:45am: Wake and shake 
9.50am: Drawing Club 
10.05am: Free Flow Learning 
11.40am Topic input carpet session

12.05-1.05pm Lunch time

1.05pm:  Afternoon registration and Maths Carpet Session
1.15pm: Free Flow Learning 
2.40pm: Music 
2.50pm: Phonics input 
2.55pm: Talking Through Stories 
3.15pm: Hometime- collect your child from the classroom
 

In Reception, we have introduced ‘Drawing Club’. 

Drawing Club incorporates story sharing, speaking and listening, drawing, writing, vocabulary, mathematics, imagination and collaboration. 

Each week we have a focus story or animation. 

The children learn new vocabulary linked to the story or animation and are invited to ‘Drawing Club’, where they may draw a character, setting or event. They can innovate their drawings and add secret passwords, magic powers or spells, hidden symbols, letters or numerals. 

At the start of reception, the sessions may be purely drawings based but this will progress on throughout the year to labelling their drawings with initial sounds, CVC words and eventually writing sentences about their drawings.  
 

At Gray’s Farm we aim for all our children to become fluent, confident readers who are passionate about reading. Children who read regularly, or are read to, have the opportunity to open the doors to so many different worlds! More importantly, reading will give your child the tools to become independent life-long learners. 

We can achieve this together through:
1.  Read Write Inc, a programme to help to your child read at school
2.  Encouraging children to develop a love of books by reading to them daily, at home and at school 
3.  Talk through Stories programme 
4.  Giving children access to a wide range of books at school and at home

At Gray’s Farm we use Read Write Inc Phonics (RWI) to give your child the best possible start with their reading and writing.
 

Our Mathematics curriculum is a journey that begins with investigating the construction of numbers to 5. To many parents this may seem odd as a percentage of children will start in Reception being able to recognise numbers to 10 and count by rote to numbers in the teens and further but we actually look in depth at how each number can be made using other numbers, what it looks like both in numeral and with concrete objects and we learn the number bonds that make each number to 5. Once the children are secure with this, we move on to numbers to 10 in exactly the same way.

Once the children have developed their knowledge of number to 10, they move on to applying it through looking at addition and subtraction, finding one more and one less than a given number, odd and even numbers, and finding double and half of a number. The children also have many opportunities to share what they know or can see in an image or representation of a number. This is when the children are able to apply what they know and describe it to another person. It has been proven that children who are secure in this number knowledge and able to explain what they know about a number or a mathematical process when moving into Year 1 find the transition much easier and have no gaps in their learning as they move up through the school because the number knowledge gained in Reception provides the building blocks for the National Curriculum covered in years 1 to 6. 
 

If you would like to virtually view our school, you can do so by clicking here.

Alternatively you can request an in-person visit by emailing office@graysfarm-tkat.org.