For information on the intent, implementation and impact of our EYFS curriculum at Whingate please click on the link.

EYFS | Whingate Primary School

For general information and pictures of our learning in Reception, please see below.

Our Reception classroom and learning

Our Staff:

In Reception, the teachers who help us learn are Mrs Knights, Mrs Harrison and Miss Swift.
Our fantastic Teaching Assistants are Ms Binks, Mrs Sykes, Miss Langton and Miss Rudd.

Key Information:

Clothes

• Please check that your child has the correct uniform, including pumps, in line with our uniform policy. 
• Please also ensure that all items of clothing, including pumps, PE kits and uniform are clearly labelled with your child's name. 

Bookbags

Please ensure that your child has their book bag at school every Wednesday. This will enable us to change their reading book to reflect the phonemes they are learning in Phonics that week. Book bags will go home on a Friday

PE

The children will do PE indoor every Monday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school on this day and everything is correctly labelled.

Homework

In Reception we will send home a Maths based challenge each week as well as a Phonics challenge, and when appropriate, a sound book, ditty sheet or reading book to reflect what the children have been learning in Phonics.

Phonics/Reading

This is a key area of the Early Years curriculum that underpins everything we do. We learn to read through the Phonics programme Read Write Inc. We have daily Phonics/reading session every morning. Please see the Phonics section of our website to find out more about what Phonics is and how we teach it at Whingate.

https://www.whingate.leeds.sch.uk/curriculum/phonics-1 

Maths

This year we have adopted the Maths mastery approach as well as following the White Rose Maths Hub progression of learning. Maths is very visual and multisensory in Reception and is embedded throughout the provision areas, as well as in focused adult led sessions.

Vocabulary

We aim to enrich and widen children's vocabulary daily at every opportunity. This is done through story telling, introducing new topic words, and through conversations and interactions throughout the different provision areas inside and outside. 

Our Curriculum

In EYFS we teach and assess the children against the 17 areas of learning. We aim for the children to make good progress and to reach age related expectations, working towards the Early Learning Goals by the end of the year.

HT1 Reception's Newsletter

HT1 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

HT2 Reception's Newsletter

HT2 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

Reception's Long Term Plan 2023-24

Supporting Your Child's Learning At Home

One thing you can be working on at home is forming the letters in your name correctly. Remember you need a capital letter at the beginning, then lowercase letters for the rest of your name, for example, Albert. It might be that you can write your name already but need to practise your letter formation, or that you are working on holding a pencil and forming the first letter.

It is important to work on your fine motor skills to make sure you can hold a pencil correctly to write. You can build the strength up in your fingers and hand by doing lots of fun things such as playing with pegs, playdough and threading.

Phonics   

Phonics is how we teach the children to read and write.

In School we follow the Phonics Scheme Read Write Inc. Please see our Phonics page under the curriculum tab for information, the link is below. There are video's to explain the process and how to say each of the set 1 phonemes (letter sounds), to help support your child at home. We start Phonics from the 2nd week of term in HT1. In the Autumn term phonics will be taught to the whole class, introducing a new phoneme everyday. We will then assess the children to group them for HT2.

Please see below the progression of Phonics across Foundation Stage. This shows what should be taught at certain times of the year. However, when we assess the children each half term they are grouped accordingly for their individulas needs and they will access exactly what they need in our phonics curriculum.

If you have any questions please ask Miss Swift our Phonics Leader in school, or your child's class teacher.

Phonics | Whingate Primary School

For information on the intent, implementation and impact of our EYFS curriculum at Whingate please click on the link.

EYFS | Whingate Primary School

For general information and pictures of our learning in Reception, please see below.

Our Reception classroom and learning

Our Staff:

In Reception, the teachers who help us learn are Mrs Knights, Mrs Harrison and Miss Swift.
Our fantastic Teaching Assistants are Ms Binks, Mrs Sykes, Miss Langton and Miss Rudd.

Key Information:

Clothes

• Please check that your child has the correct uniform, including pumps, in line with our uniform policy. 
• Please also ensure that all items of clothing, including pumps, PE kits and uniform are clearly labelled with your child's name. 

Bookbags

Please ensure that your child has their book bag at school every Wednesday. This will enable us to change their reading book to reflect the phonemes they are learning in Phonics that week. Book bags will go home on a Friday

PE

The children will do PE indoor every Monday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school on this day and everything is correctly labelled.

Homework

In Reception we will send home a Maths based challenge each week as well as a Phonics challenge, and when appropriate, a sound book, ditty sheet or reading book to reflect what the children have been learning in Phonics.

Phonics/Reading

This is a key area of the Early Years curriculum that underpins everything we do. We learn to read through the Phonics programme Read Write Inc. We have daily Phonics/reading session every morning. Please see the Phonics section of our website to find out more about what Phonics is and how we teach it at Whingate.

https://www.whingate.leeds.sch.uk/curriculum/phonics-1 

Maths

This year we have adopted the Maths mastery approach as well as following the White Rose Maths Hub progression of learning. Maths is very visual and multisensory in Reception and is embedded throughout the provision areas, as well as in focused adult led sessions.

Vocabulary

We aim to enrich and widen children's vocabulary daily at every opportunity. This is done through story telling, introducing new topic words, and through conversations and interactions throughout the different provision areas inside and outside. 

Our Curriculum

In EYFS we teach and assess the children against the 17 areas of learning. We aim for the children to make good progress and to reach age related expectations, working towards the Early Learning Goals by the end of the year.

HT1 Reception's Newsletter

HT1 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

HT2 Reception's Newsletter

HT2 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

Reception's Long Term Plan 2023-24

Supporting Your Child's Learning At Home

One thing you can be working on at home is forming the letters in your name correctly. Remember you need a capital letter at the beginning, then lowercase letters for the rest of your name, for example, Albert. It might be that you can write your name already but need to practise your letter formation, or that you are working on holding a pencil and forming the first letter.

It is important to work on your fine motor skills to make sure you can hold a pencil correctly to write. You can build the strength up in your fingers and hand by doing lots of fun things such as playing with pegs, playdough and threading.

Phonics   

Phonics is how we teach the children to read and write.

In School we follow the Phonics Scheme Read Write Inc. Please see our Phonics page under the curriculum tab for information, the link is below. There are video's to explain the process and how to say each of the set 1 phonemes (letter sounds), to help support your child at home. We start Phonics from the 2nd week of term in HT1. In the Autumn term phonics will be taught to the whole class, introducing a new phoneme everyday. We will then assess the children to group them for HT2.

Please see below the progression of Phonics across Foundation Stage. This shows what should be taught at certain times of the year. However, when we assess the children each half term they are grouped accordingly for their individulas needs and they will access exactly what they need in our phonics curriculum.

If you have any questions please ask Miss Swift our Phonics Leader in school, or your child's class teacher.

Phonics | Whingate Primary School

For information on the intent, implementation and impact of our EYFS curriculum at Whingate please click on the link.

EYFS | Whingate Primary School

For general information and pictures of our learning in Reception, please see below.

Our Reception classroom and learning

Our Staff:

In Reception, the teachers who help us learn are Mrs Knights, Mrs Harrison and Miss Swift.
Our fantastic Teaching Assistants are Ms Binks, Mrs Sykes, Miss Langton and Miss Rudd.

Key Information:

Clothes

• Please check that your child has the correct uniform, including pumps, in line with our uniform policy. 
• Please also ensure that all items of clothing, including pumps, PE kits and uniform are clearly labelled with your child's name. 

Bookbags

Please ensure that your child has their book bag at school every Wednesday. This will enable us to change their reading book to reflect the phonemes they are learning in Phonics that week. Book bags will go home on a Friday

PE

The children will do PE indoor every Monday. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school on this day and everything is correctly labelled.

Homework

In Reception we will send home a Maths based challenge each week as well as a Phonics challenge, and when appropriate, a sound book, ditty sheet or reading book to reflect what the children have been learning in Phonics.

Phonics/Reading

This is a key area of the Early Years curriculum that underpins everything we do. We learn to read through the Phonics programme Read Write Inc. We have daily Phonics/reading session every morning. Please see the Phonics section of our website to find out more about what Phonics is and how we teach it at Whingate.

https://www.whingate.leeds.sch.uk/curriculum/phonics-1 

Maths

This year we have adopted the Maths mastery approach as well as following the White Rose Maths Hub progression of learning. Maths is very visual and multisensory in Reception and is embedded throughout the provision areas, as well as in focused adult led sessions.

Vocabulary

We aim to enrich and widen children's vocabulary daily at every opportunity. This is done through story telling, introducing new topic words, and through conversations and interactions throughout the different provision areas inside and outside. 

Our Curriculum

In EYFS we teach and assess the children against the 17 areas of learning. We aim for the children to make good progress and to reach age related expectations, working towards the Early Learning Goals by the end of the year.

HT1 Reception's Newsletter

HT1 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

HT2 Reception's Newsletter

HT2 Reception's Knowledge Organiser

Reception's Long Term Plan 2023-24

Supporting Your Child's Learning At Home

One thing you can be working on at home is forming the letters in your name correctly. Remember you need a capital letter at the beginning, then lowercase letters for the rest of your name, for example, Albert. It might be that you can write your name already but need to practise your letter formation, or that you are working on holding a pencil and forming the first letter.

It is important to work on your fine motor skills to make sure you can hold a pencil correctly to write. You can build the strength up in your fingers and hand by doing lots of fun things such as playing with pegs, playdough and threading.

Phonics   

Phonics is how we teach the children to read and write.

In School we follow the Phonics Scheme Read Write Inc. Please see our Phonics page under the curriculum tab for information, the link is below. There are video's to explain the process and how to say each of the set 1 phonemes (letter sounds), to help support your child at home. We start Phonics from the 2nd week of term in HT1. In the Autumn term phonics will be taught to the whole class, introducing a new phoneme everyday. We will then assess the children to group them for HT2.

Please see below the progression of Phonics across Foundation Stage. This shows what should be taught at certain times of the year. However, when we assess the children each half term they are grouped accordingly for their individulas needs and they will access exactly what they need in our phonics curriculum.

If you have any questions please ask Miss Swift our Phonics Leader in school, or your child's class teacher.

Phonics | Whingate Primary School