Welcome to our Reception Class

The Reception class at Scarisbrick Hall can be summarised by a powerful phrase ‘Child Centred’.

‘A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart’ however in order for teachers to do this ‘Every adult needs to teach a child; it’s the way adults learn.’

There is one fully qualified Teacher and one fully qualified Teaching Assistant within the Reception class, which enables a concentrated amount of time and nourishment for each child within the class.

The environment that the children learn in is welcoming, vibrant, and accessible to all children creating attainable challenges to ensure individual achievements. 

Each day is filled with a variety of activities which use the vast range of facilities upon the school site. The children complete activities such as dance in the modern dance studio, music and movement within the beautiful and inspiring Great Hall and magical story times within the enchanting story telling tower. 

The school day in Reception consists of phonic and number sessions, cursive writing practice, French and also focus sessions within each of the six Early Years curriculum areas. The children learn in two ways; through teacher lead topic lessons and also through a creatively enhanced classroom, which encourages independent investigation and an understanding of the topic. The children also enjoy many topic trips out of school using the great resource of school minibuses.

This term within Reception our topic is Holidays and we are investigating what a holiday is, where we may go, how we may get there and many more questions. We will complete activities such as making our own holiday map including a key due to our knowledge of shapes. We will use ICT toys to navigate each child’s map to encourage positional language. All of these activities will be individually differentiated and assessed which will influence the future planning for the class to extend and strengthen knowledge of each individual child.