The Reception Day

Time

Session details

8.35am- 8.45am.

School begins.

Children enter the unit independently, saying goodbye to parents/ carers in the playground. The children will organise their belongings, self-register and then choose an activity to complete.  Staff will set up ‘Early morning’ targeted activities each morning, aimed at closing gaps.

8.55am

Wake Up! Shake Up! Session

This is a physical development session which develops the children’s gross motor skills and has a positive impact on their ability to physically hold a pencil and form letters/graphemes.

9.10am –

9.25am

Whole Class Teaching and Learning Session

Specific knowledge and skills are taught based on Communication & Language, Maths, Reading and Writing. Adults will also share details of the day’s adult-led activities and independent learning challenges.

9.25am –

10.40am

Adult-Led and Child-Initiated Learning across the unit (continuous provision)

The children will interact and take part in adult-led and child-initiated learning experiences during this session.  Learning challenges will be set up in each room for the children to complete across the day (a minimum of 5 challenges).  The outdoor learning environment is also open whatever the weather, so please ensure your child brings a coat to school every day.

10.40am –

11am

Tidy Up Time – a valuable opportunity for children to learn and develop independence and care for their environment

Whole class reading – A weekly focus book/ poem will be shared with the children each day, focusing on understanding the text and story sequence.

11am-

11.20am

Phonics session

Completed in class groups in the Autumn term and moving into smaller phonics groups based on progress and attainment in the Spring and Summer term.

11.20am –

11.30am

Guided Reading session

Every child will complete a focused guided reading session with the adult, which helps to develop key reading skills, each week. Children will have a set day and parents are informed of their child’s reading day in their communication book in September.

11.30am-12.30pm

Lunchtime and Outside play.

12.30pm –

12.45pm

Wake Up! Shake Up! Session

The early years children and staff all participate in a second ‘Wake Up Shake Up!’ physical activity session to refocus the children at the end of lunchtime.

12.45pm –

1pm

Whole Class Teaching and Learning Session

Based on the topic and linked to learning across the Foundation Stage Curriculum.  Adults will remind children of the day’s adult-led activities and independent learning challenges and celebrate the learning that has already taken place that day.

1pm-2.15pm

Adult-Led and Child-Initiated Learning across the unit (continuous provision)

2.20pm-3pm

Mastering Number, and Three a Day Story/Rhyme

Mastery Number is aimed at strengthening the understanding of numbers and fluency with number facts and is completed daily in class groups. This is followed by the end of the day story/ rhyme, which is vital in developing early reading and Communication & Language skills.

Children collect their belongings and are dismissed.