Whingate Primary School
Take a Look at Our Classroom!
Our Staff:
In Reception Teachers that help us learn are Miss Swift, Mrs Cooper, Mrs Knights and our HLTA Mrs Waterhouse. Our fantastic Teaching Assistants are Ms Binks, Ms Massey, Mrs Sykes, Mrs SUnderland and Miss Olga.
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 Newsletter
HT1 in Reception:
Reception's Knowledge Organiser HT1
Reception's Long Term Plan 2022-23
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 
In School we follow the Phonics Scheme Read Write Inc. Please see the letter below for information about how we teach Phonics.
We enjoy singing the 'Phonics Song' and 'Tricky Word Song' at the beginning of every Phonics session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVbJ-IaHIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
Phonics Play is a great website to help embed what the children are learning in Phonics by playing games.