Overview
Reception at Queen’s Hill Primary School offers an engaging and nurturing environment for each child to learn and flourish. Our goal is to instill a ‘Passion for Learning’ that will continue throughout pupils' lives by providing stimulating lessons, enquiry-based learning opportunities and a child-centred approach to help children develop their own love of learning.
We believe that each and every child has the right to achieve and in the Early Years we seek to develop this at every stage. Our purpose built Reception classrooms and outdoor area provide a rich environment in which the children can learn through their play and children are able to access our large outdoor area on a free-flow basis every day. A balance of adult-directed and child-initiated learning ensures that children make progress across all areas of their learning and development. We follow the phonics scheme Read, Write, Inc. which teaches children to use letter sounds to support their reading and writing. We use a maths mastery approach when teaching early number skills.
Useful Links
Read and write alphabet and letters
How we teach phonics at Queen's Hill
Home communication
At Queen’s Hill Primary School we see education as a partnership between the home and school. We use Tapestry, an ‘online learning journal’ which enables you to see photographs, videos and written observations of the activities your child does at school. Good relationships between parents and staff are valued and there are frequent opportunities for parents to come in and share what their child has been doing.
Reception Blog Posts
“Coming to England”
Autumn walk
First Assembly
Dinosaur Week
Phonics in Reception
Playing outside
EYFS Big Toddle
Anti-Bullying Curriculum Day
Workshare Success!
